Re: Sony CD/DVD 'changer' - a plan foiled
- From: Andrew Rose <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:55:13 +0100
Steve de Mena wrote:
Andrew Rose wrote:Bob Lombard wrote:William Sommerwerck wrote:According to the CNET review...
"The Sony DVP-CX995V offered acceptable disc compatibility, although it
couldn't play DVDs with MP3s on them, and it choked on one home-burned DVD
that almost never fouls up on other players."
Perhaps your problems are "normal" for this unit.
That's a fairly silly 'review'. I read it before buying the unit. Many (most?) stand-alone DVD players don't recognize mp3 DVDs. His "home-burned DVD" *almost* never fouls up on other players. OK.
400 disks is hardly a "large" collection. I have almost that many multi-ch
SACDs. You could put the Brilliant Classics Bach, Mozart, and Brahms sets in
it, and not have much space left over.
Sure but... how many transfers-from-LP CDRs do you have? I have only 7 or 8 hundred of them, and don't expect to get all of them into the changer.
Anyway, Norman had the answer. I ripped the subject CD-Rs using EAC, which was happy with them BTW, and burned the music to Ritek media. the Sony changer plays them with no hiccups. So... the Sony changer doesn't like Sony CD-R media. Who'd a thunk it?
Thanks, Norman
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Here's an alternative:
http://www.tvix.co.kr/eng/products/HDM7000A.aspx
Pop a 1.5 Terabyte Seagate hard drive in it - currently retailing for $129 or less - and you'll probably have enough room to keep you going for quite a while!
I've been trialling one of the 'lesser' models and been very pleased with it, both for audio and HD video. They have both analogue surround and optical digital audio outputs, as well as HDMI, and can hook into a local wired or wireless network if required. USB ports allow further expansion.
The drives support FLAC and MP3 amongst many other formats, so you can choose whether or not to use lossy compression.
Is Gapless playback supported for all audio formats? Something I saw mentioned gapless was not supported with FLAC.
The model I linked to above has gapless FLAC playback - mine is 'promised' in a firmware update, which is why we're not fully recommending this model just now. Don't know what the situation is with respect to MP3s. I'm hoping to get a sample of the above model to try out, with a mind to reselling them pre-loaded with our FLACs. Right now it's the only sticking point for me on the model we have (the 5100).
Apparently 100MB LAN only, no Gigabit.
Yep. What I've been doing is using the USB2 connection and linking in as a hard drive, as our LAN here is 100mbps rather than Gigabit and some way away from where I playback audio and video. I simply update as and when required then take it offline and operate it independent of the network.
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Andrew Rose
Pristine Classical: "The destination for people interested in historic recordings..." (Gramophone)
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