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If you are the least concerned with good sound and on a budget, this player or it's corresponding successor should be on your shortlist.
Plays music with fine musicality, good sense of room/airyness as well as autorative lows.
Hook this up with either the C352 or a fine tube amplifier to bring out the best.
Picture quality via the progressive component cables is also impressive for this price range with "bang-for-the-buck" picture quality and natural colours.
I just purchased a Panasonic DVD-S99 that is supposed to be "top-of-the-range" for Panasonic. It was purchased because I'm planning to buy a HD-ready LCD soon and thus needed a player with the HDMI out. BUT the Panasonic was totally "floored" compared to the NAD in the sound department. The Panasonic sounded flat, lifeless and compressed compared to the NAD. All I can say is that if this is the best the Panasonic engineers can come up with in the sound department - then I feel sorry for them...
It was a true relief to go back to the NAD sound when playing CD's or mp3's (Surprisingly the S99 did not accept mp3's on DVD either, something that the NAD accepts.) Strengths:
* Excellent sound quality
* Excellent picture quality with natural colours via component out
* Much better than Panasonic's S99 in the sound department and amazingly also better colours in the lower resolutions that the NAD handles. (The S99 had a slight green tint on both CRT and Plasma)
* This player or corresponding new model should be on the short-list of every budget-conscious audiophile. Weaknesses:
* No HDMI out
* No mp3-tag text shown in the player's display
* Design. NAD should really rethink their design to match their L53-look more than this old, drab look. I think a lot of potential customers will pass up on this product for the boring design alone... Similar Products Used:
- Panasonic DVD-S99
- Philips DVP720SA
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