[sacarmic]

I am building up a nice little 2channel system and could use some advice. I would like to get a decent universal disc player ( SACD & DVD-A) for it. Can anyone recommend a good sub $400 player, new or used, that will work will in a 2 channel environment? Since most of these are actually dvd players first, I would like one that doesn't need a monitor to work.


Thanks for any advice you might have.


Scott

 

[shane55]



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Originally Posted by sacarmic /forum/post/18184404


I am building up a nice little 2channel system and could use some advice. I would like to get a decent universal disc player ( SACD & DVD-A) for it. Can anyone recommend a good sub $400 player, new or used, that will work will in a 2 channel environment? Since most of these are actually dvd players first, I would like one that doesn't need a monitor to work.


Thanks for any advice you might have.


Scott

Well... if you mean REALLY universal, try the Oppo BDP-80 or 83
http://oppodigital.com/blu-ray-bdp-80/


shane

 

[sacarmic]

BUt how are the d/a's on those?

 

[rick240]

BDP-80, OK

BDP-83, really good

BDP-83SE, great

 

[coolsax]

you can also look at the Yamaha S1800, it doesn't do bluray but its a really good Universal player with Burr/Brown DACs. it originally retailed for $300 but Amazon has had it recently for 80

 

[sivadselim]



Quote:
Originally Posted by sacarmic /forum/post/18184404


..................I would like one that doesn't need a monitor to work.

Good luck with that. I think you are probably going to need a monitor to set any of them up, initially. Once configured, though, you should probably be good to go without one.

 

[tesseract67]

Marantz has a uni player or two in that price range. Some on screen menus, but they are not needed for audio playback unless you want to enable the CD upsampling feature.

 

[math-geek]



Quote:
Originally Posted by coolsax /forum/post/18197963


you can also look at the Yamaha S1800, it doesn't do bluray but its a really good Universal player with Burr/Brown DACs. it originally retailed for $300 but Amazon has had it recently for 80

+1,


I bought one of the S1800s on a whim for $80.00 from Amazon. It is actually a very nice sounding player. For the money it's an obscene value!

 

[WilliamZX11]



Quote:
Originally Posted by coolsax /forum/post/18197963


you can also look at the Yamaha S1800, it doesn't do bluray but its a really good Universal player with Burr/Brown DACs. it originally retailed for $300 but Amazon has had it recently for 80

Actually the retail was originally $450:

http://www.yamaha.com/yec/products/p...l?CNTID=558368


I've had the DVD-s1700 and 1800. They are identical inside and out, other than the model number. Both were great with SACD and DVD/A, but avoid them if you want to play DVD-R's. After they warm up for a while, they will stop reading the discs, never could make it all the way through a disc. Wasn't a defect, as I tried two 1700 and the 1800, all of them did it. When cold the discs played fine.

 

[wrat]

another vote for the oppo

 

[gene c353]

I'd get one that has an internal adjustable cross-over. My Yamaha S-2500 had this feature as did my H/K 47 which also sounded really good thru it's 2 channel analog outs, but it had trouble playing my HDAD discs so it had to go. Most fixed cross-over player are set too high for me. My Yamaha 6770 (nice player) was fixed at 90 or so. Still too high.


I currently have an OPPO 83 and H/K 520 in one room, which is very nice, and a Pioneer Elite 59txi and matching DV-59avi connected via iLink in another room which just sounds awesome! Much better than m/c analog outs imo. I highly recommend iLink. Hi-res thru HDMI should/might sound just as good but I wouldn't know.