With Christmas coming I have negotiated the purchase of a DVD player and am now faced with dilemma of which one -
Because of the emergence of DVD-A and DVD RW in the near future I am aiming to buy at the lower end of the market - say under £299. To that cost I will need to add a processor and plan to use a spare pair of Linn Kan's as rears to get me going. The sub will have to wait until funds allow but is likely to something from REL (I borrowed and quite liked a Storm III a while ago)
TV is a 3 year old Sony with 29" conventional 4/3 screen.
We do tend to buy music (concert and documentary) on VHS at present as well as movies which seems a waste - hence our move into DVD
One key criteria is that the addition of A/V should still allow me to use the NAC102/NAP180 to drive my SBL's at the front. A dealer once told me that what I needed was a Yamaha 492 which I gather has been replaced by the Yamaha DSPA5 which allowed just that, presumably at the expense of complex level balancing being required!
So the questions:
What DVD player would you recommend?
What processor would you recommend?
Should I just scrap the whole idea and buy a record cleaner instead?
Thanks in anticipateion of informed response from the A/V gurus out there.
Jonathan
CDI/Gyro/RB600/DV17D2/102/180/Hicap/SBL
Posted on: 15 December 2000 by Edwin
I have done a bit of DVD price comparisons. The cheapest are here in Canada, either
www.futureshop.ca or absound.ca. Typical prices are Can$25-30 including taxes (UKP11-13).
A&B sounds CD prices are about as cheap as you will find anywhere. Chart CDs are typically Can $16 including taxes (about UKP7).
What price are CDs in the UK these days? They were about UKP 12 when I emigrated in '92.
Posted on: 15 December 2000 by Edwin
I have done a bit of DVD price comparisons. The cheapest are here in Canada, either
www.futureshop.ca or absound.ca. Typical prices are Can$25-30 including taxes (UKP11-13).
A&B sounds CD prices are about as cheap as you will find anywhere. Chart CDs are typically Can $16 including taxes (about UKP7).
What price are CDs in the UK these days? They were about UKP 12 when I emigrated in '92.
Posted on: 15 December 2000 by Former member
Don't touch that wharfedale DVD from Tesco! It may be multiregional and have had good writ-ups for it's CD playback quality (relative to cost) but it's just been slammed on a BBC consumer programme. It doesn't play everything on the disks apparently, especially those extra bits they like to pad out the DVD discs with.
Posted on: 18 December 2000 by Former member
Edwin,
Most of the supermarkets sell chart CDs and DVDs.
Cheapest CDs seems to be Sainsburys £9.99/CD and £12.99/Double. ASDA do some for £9.87 but are generally more expensive as are Tesco. Now 47 costs £16.99 in most places!
DVDs require more shopping around but most chart around £19.99 however Blockbuster offer ex-Rental DVDs at least £5 off.
HM Customs & Excise claim to do spot chacks but probably find it too expensive to chase up the odd bit of duty & VAT on mail-order imports so the .ca URLs are helpful!
I am pleased to say I will be in Totonto in the spring, so if there's anywhere special in the city that I should check out please let me know.
Posted on: 18 December 2000 by Former member
Never had any problems with mine.... plays everything I have thrown at it. Including the extras.
Posted on: 18 December 2000 by Jonathan Gorse
I am as you are aware progressing with setting up my a/v system and am wondering how best to connect an REL sub if I decide to splash out.
For a/v the sub will obviously run off the Yamaha processor's dolby digital sub output. If I want the option to use the REL to augment the SBL's for purely musical use on two channel is this possible?
Obviously one option might be to connect the sub using both low and high level inputs - disconnecting whichever isn't required at the time.
Would having the high level cable soldered into the NAP180 speaker plugs but not connected at the sub end cause any significant loading issues or sound degradation?
Is there a better way of doing things? It's just if I'm going to spend significant dosh on a sub I would like to be able to use it for music and a/v.
Thank in advance,
Jonathan
