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The Xbox should be better.
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It uses rare NOS tubes and has a look that needs improvement.
I usally play a Dean Peer disc(bass player). It sounds pretty good through the speakers on the Wega XBR. I think I'll try my 360 next.
I don't use it as a CDP anymore, but you can tweak it a little to get more bass. adding the aftermarket interconnect A/V cable hook-up box helps but you have to use your own IC's then.XBOX blows away the PS1 that I have in every respect....if you like imaging and a smooth digi sound & don't mind the lack of bass attack, the XBOX does pretty darn good. spending $ on a new male plug for the captive pc makes a good change too.
To my ears, sticking a refrigerator magnet or 2 on top of the sony scd-595 cdp makes even discussing simple gaming systems as cdp's seem pretty fruitless. the somewhat constricted soundstage of the 595 grew garagantuan after the magnet tweak. check it out in Tweaker's Asylum.
i wanna know if folks have tried the new XBOX 360 or PS3 as a cd player....the 360's external psu is enormous.
With either the XBOX or the PS1, be sure to remove all the screws which hold the chassis together. for some reason this was probably the best free tweak i found to audibly effect these 2. Oh, and placing an empty LP album cover under the chassis helps a lot too - in between the stock rubber feet and your shelf.
and am using it in my bedroom system. It sounds good. In my "big rig" it was smooth but not as resolving as my SACD Mods modified Sony 775. I have bookmarked a variety of sites on mods that people have done to the PS1.I have an XBox as well but have not compared them.
My system is down. We could always do a comparison at Chris', or wait until I finish the subpanel installation here. I am waiting for my subpanel parts and breakers to come back from cryo...next is the wall, which as you know I have been talking about forever.
I am waiting for my subpanel parts and breakers to come back from cryo.......I have you under my control. Do not pass go and do not collect $200. Do not touch that dial or switch channels. Resistance is futile.
From the 6 Moons site.....
This is what cracks me up about 'reviews'. The thing is a four page glossy advertisement for an expensive integrated amplifier and speakers, dream press from a manufacturer's point of view, then we find out that we can spend $25 on the CD player.
What's next, they break out the $6,000 front end and say, you gotta buy this, great stuff, the best I've ever heard, and did you know it sounds just as good with a $50 digital amp as with the $5,000 amplifier we advertised last month?
Great marketing.
You really don't get it, Tom.
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# The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men # Jules Winnfield(Ezekiel 25:17)> Pulp Fiction <
Although video gaming interests me about as much as pole-sitting, I've gotten the impression that a lot of the design flaws in digital audio, that have been perpetuated by an establishment that mostly denies the flaws' existence, may have finally been addressed by the video gaming design establishment.So a few audiophiles discovering that an Xbox provides superior audio could be a result of practices in the video gaming industry to refine its products (which unlike consumer audio, has incredibly stiff competition and a fanatical end-user network), in which fixing the flaws in digital audio playback has become a major element of the process.
It could come to the point where I might even try one of these things, albeit for a purpose almost totally removed from its intended purpose.
The sad part is this could finally expose the quackery that has been perpetuating in the digital audio design establishment, which has for a long time misled the public about not-so-perfect products being perfect, and berating those who questioned that notion.
The moral of the story- If a design community refuses to improve its products over the notion of being "more-than-adequate" for the job, it will ultimately be upstaged by another design community that thinks otherwise. And this could open a lot of eyes, from audiophiles and mainstream consumers alike.
Well, I've been experimenting with the original PS-1 quite a bit lately. One of its biggest advantages is that, unlike most consumer CD players, it doesn't invert polarity. I would imagine this accounts for a large amount of what people hear in comparing it to "normal" CD players.
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