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Price Paid:
$550.00
from Tweeter Summary:
I have to say that this product was a bit of a disappointment to me. As a long time Denon fan I was immediately attracted to this model hoping it would fill all my audio and video needs for my new media room. After 6 months of use I have to call it a mixed bag.
The video reproduction is very good...far exceeding any DVD player I've ever owned. Having said that I've only previously owned a bargain basement Samsung and a middle of the road Hitachi.
The DVD-A and SACD sound is excellent. It looks nice and was fairly easy to setup.
Now the bad...
The CD playback is not what I would expect of the Denon brand. Not very detailed...very bland. Sounds like a Best Buy bargain player. The functions are below par as well. Your inability to cue up tracks prior to play is annoying as is the bizzare scanning behavior on CD's. I've had $50 portables that do a better job of both. It also has a loud and clunky drawer and takes forever the the disks to load up.
I've not had any functional problems with the unit so the build quality appears to be fine, but I already find myself in the market for a dedicated CD player to improve on redbook CD playback
sound quality and functionality and I'll probably just use this unit as an overpriced DVD player since I don't listen to DVDA and SACD that much anyway. Strengths:
Looks, multichannel playback, sturdy build quality, video picture Weaknesses:
Slow loading, quircky disk scan and que features, 2 channel CD playback, clunky drawer Similar Products Used:
Pioneer PMD-70 6 disk changer
Samsung bottom-feeder DVD player
Hitachi DVD player
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