Well I've lived a few months with this new Universal and I am overall impressed. SACD and DVD playback is excellent.Telarc SACDs sound very realistic and almost as good as on the old Xindak SCD-2 tubed SACD player. The Xindak SCD-2 has a little more intricate detail in the high frequencies but even though it's solid state the bass is almost as warm and the midrange in the Yamaha is very liquid and smooth with the human voice sounding so real. Mechanically it's too early to tell but so far it plays the SACD layer of Hybrids SACD with ease.
Telarc CDs sound anywhere from good to excellent, the best having warmth in the midrange and smooth highs. Something I firming believed was impossible for CD to do, totally impossible. These Telarc CDs proved me wrong, CD playback can be improved. I guess the 9th time is a charm. Ironically strange thing the best sounding Telarc CDs are the earliest ones.
Other labels of CDs so far range from fair to painfully bad with one exception so far. I checked a bunch of CDs out of the library and they all sounded bad except one: Greg Brown: Slant 6 Mind on Red House Records. So it looks like there are other labels that make listenable CDs besides Telarc.
So the Yamaha is not the magical CD machine I thought it would be but at least I can now enjoy the best CDs.
However I won't be buying many more CDs, as SACDs are so much more enjoyable. But it is good to be able to get the early works of Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops.
"Music is love"
Teresa
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Topic - Update on the Yamaha DVD-S1700 Universal player. - Teresa 20:45:14 03/08/07 (19)
- I knew you were probably too far away to come hear my... - jsm 15:02:52 03/13/07 (5)
- It's not the resolution, I have heard CD players costing up to $5,000.00 and CDs still sound like CDs. - Teresa 20:52:17 03/15/07 (3)
- "SACDs with slightly less resolution" - tunenut 12:46:45 03/17/07 (0)
- Exactly my point! The RBCD standard has plenty of resolution to make music sound very good. - jsm 12:21:50 03/16/07 (1)
- Re: Exactly my point! The RBCD standard has plenty of resolution to make music sound very good. But not great - Teresa 16:50:26 03/18/07 (0)
- Your Last Sentence Speaks Volumes - Robertc88 06:27:43 03/14/07 (0)
- Re: Update on the Yamaha DVD-S1700 Universal player. - The Sound Guy 21:12:32 03/12/07 (4)
- I don't think the DVD-S1700 converts DSD to PCM, to me it sounds like it converts CD to DSD. - Teresa 21:02:51 03/15/07 (3)
- it almost certainly does convert to PCM - tunenut 13:01:00 03/17/07 (1)
- Well I do enjoy the results. - Teresa 17:58:34 03/17/07 (0)
- You Have Me Curious About This Player - Robertc88 06:07:53 03/16/07 (0)
- Re: I have found a NOS DAC helpful for redbook - navman 12:10:29 03/10/07 (1)
- Thanks for the link but I am thrilled with Yahama's UN-CD like CD playback. - Teresa 21:05:23 03/15/07 (0)
- Teresa-try to get yourself a TASCAM DVRA1000 - r17 21:10:56 03/08/07 (5)
- Re: Teresa-try to get yourself a TASCAM DVRA1000 - Charles Hansen 12:03:42 03/09/07 (4)
- You are correct... - SF tech 13:57:52 03/09/07 (3)
- Re: You are correct... - graemme 20:06:41 03/09/07 (2)
- Re: You are correct... - r17 23:55:56 03/09/07 (0)
- Re: You are correct... - r17 23:35:12 03/09/07 (0)