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Just bought a Denon DVD-2900...
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| Topic: | Just bought a Denon DVD-2900... This thread has 4 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Saturday February 28, 2004 at 20:13 |
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It's a great unit that will play ALL formats of DVD and SACD. This is the first SACD player that I've had, and am totally impressed with the sound quality of multi-channel SACD sound. I only have two SACD's right now, Pink Floyd 'Dark Side of the Moon' and Police 'Greatest Hits'. Both are fantastic!
The only drawback would be the bass management of the unit, while it's a step ahead of other players (it actually HAS bass management) it is still somewhat lacking and when playing, I have to either adjust the bass for SACD manually, or live with too little bass on SACD's and too much bass on 5.1 and 'regular' inputs, or visa versa.
The picture quality is amazing and there is no perceptable layer change on DVD movies, it has a 16 MB buffer that seems to do the job very well.
Overall, I give it a 4 of 5 stars, while the DVD-5900 has better bass management, it's twice the cost. And I cannot afford 2000 bucks for a DVD player. The 800 bucks I paid for this hurt, but well worth it!
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| Post 2 made on Monday March 1, 2004 at 10:20 |
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If you wanted better BM, you could have gone with the latest Pioneer, the 59i or something. BTW, it's an 8MB buffer in the 2900.
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| Post 3 made on Monday March 1, 2004 at 12:23 |
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On 02/28/04 20:13, Matt said...
The 800 bucks I paid for this hurt, but well
worth it! Put a £ sign in front of the 800, do a $/£ conversion and you get an idea of how much we have to pay.
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| OP | Post 4 made on Tuesday March 2, 2004 at 01:37 |
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On 03/01/04 10:20, Spiky said...
If you wanted better BM, you could have gone with
the latest Pioneer, the 59i or something. BTW,
it's an 8MB buffer in the 2900. Yes well at twice the price....but better video and audio quality? Maybe not...
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| Post 5 made on Tuesday March 2, 2004 at 15:27 |
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My understanding is the Pioneer is also $1000 or near and supposedly has excellent audio at least as good as the 2900, if not the 5900. Video...I never trust Pioneer on the chroma bug, but this also is supposed to be fairly good. Remember it has HDMI out and upsampling to HD res. And the Firewire audio connection will work with the industry standards.
Don't get me wrong, I've got the 2900 and wouldn't trade it for the Pio, just thought I'd mention the option.
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