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In Reply to: What are bad choices for sub $1000 SACD playback these days? posted by Maxxfell on March 6, 2007 at 03:59:59:
I would stay away from Yamaha. I had a real bad experience with the S1500. My dealer who sells Yamaha told me that they don't do DVD good. I now have a Pioneer DV79AVi and it is terrific! Yamaha's home theatre receivers are excellent, though.
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Are you using your Pioneer mainly for multi-channel or for stereo also? If for stereo, how does it do on CD's?
I am using the Pioneer for two channel only. Don't have a surround set-up. Redbook is excellent. Not as good as my Benchmark DAC1 but better than previous players like Denon DCD-1650AR and an old Sumo transport/dac. Also, infinitly better than my previous Yamaha S1500 universal player.If I didn't have the Benchmark I could easily live with the Pioneer. In fact, often I do listen to "redbook" through the DV79AVi. My system has the Pioneer going through the pre-amp while I run the Benchmark directly to the power amp. Sometimes I'm too lazy to rewire so I'll play regular cds on the Pioneer. I feel like I'm losing very, very little. So, highly recommended for all two channel playback.
In what way? Simply "better than" does little for comparison purposes.
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