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In Reply to: RE: Late adopter Toshiba SD-9200 DVD-A posted by Crazy Dave on August 16, 2011 at 13:45:16
I found a dual sided Pat Metheny group at a thrift store for $1. The sound is very impressive. Redbook also sounds great on this thing. It is walking all over my Nad CD player, which is still think is a good player. I think there still if fun to be had with DVD-A, particularly if I can get disks at prices like this.
Dave
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There's no reason that DVD-A had to be connected at the hip with video. While there are a few players out there that don't use video in their players, the vast majority do. Anything audiophile is a niche market and DVD-A tried to tie in with DVD-V, a venue audiophiles prefer not to incorporate into audio. This was the double-whammy that doomed it to failure. Tout higher quality audio, something that only audiophiles, a very small market, would appreciate because the masses couldn't care less about it, but make the format dependant on video, something which audiophiles desire so little association. Still not done, the majority of the labels urinated on the audio by lacing it with watermarking in the analog stream.
I was selling audio equipment in the 80's and I think that audio companies did too good a job then in convincing the public that CD sound was perfect. When DVD came out, the pubic assumed the same. I think the general public was very skeptical about the idea that CD sound could be improved upon and is far more interested in things like Dolby surround, and getting "near CD sound" out of their MP3. Most would doubt that they could hear the difference. The fact that you had two competing systems did not help.
I did manage to find a Pat Matheny DVD-A disk for $1 at a thrift store, so this really may be the best time to get into DVD-A! Plus this thing does really nice Redbook. I have been buying a lot of really nice CD's for $1. I was just listening to the Essential Santana. The mix seem much more base heavy that I remember the vinyl, but it did not stop the music form getting to me. It went beyond toe-taping to full-on get-up-and-dance! I had forgotten how good he is. I think I got my dollar's worth. If you haven't guessed already, I am having fun with this thing!
Dave
Dave,
are you playing the dual-disc(s) on your Toshiba? If so, any problems with playback?
The one I have (Dave Matthews Band, "Stand Up") seems to be playing fine, but I need to double check after reading the Stereophile review. I checked the menu last night and could not find anything to activate DVD-A. I will check the owners manual tonight. The DVD-A Side sounded better than the CD side but both played fine. I have not tried it in my NAD CD player.Last Friday the Toshiba stopped reading disks. I decided it was time to "grow a set" and popped the top to clean the lens and the rails. (I had never done this before.) After the cleaning it still did not read disks, so I watched the operation. I saw that the laser was not moving so I looked at the plastic gears. One was not meshing. I pushed it up with a jeweler's screwdriver and everything now works fine!
Dave
Edits: 09/06/11
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