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    I think you are right, same deal a year or two ago with the toshiba 3950 DVD player, I bought one new (60 bucks) as I needed a DVD player. Used as a CD player, it wasnt bad at all when compared to cheap CD players. People were saying the same thing about how great it was and modable and all that. My stock Rotel 971 ( just an OK player) smoked it hard. But for the price of entry.....OK Better than a 5000 or 10000 player? Sorry guys there is no free lunch, and audio ( one of the few areas of electronics where "new" innovations never get cheaper at retail level) I doubt is any exception, but a good use for an outdated game box.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Russellc View Post
    I think you are right, same deal a year or two ago with the toshiba 3950 DVD player, I bought one new (60 bucks) as I needed a DVD player. Used as a CD player, it wasnt bad at all when compared to cheap CD players. People were saying the same thing about how great it was and modable and all that. My stock Rotel 971 ( just an OK player) smoked it hard. But for the price of entry.....OK Better than a 5000 or 10000 player? Sorry guys there is no free lunch, and audio ( one of the few areas of electronics where "new" innovations never get cheaper at retail level) I doubt is any exception, but a good use for an outdated game box.

    Russellc
    Not talking cheap chinese Toshiba DVD players.
    Have you done the Sony yet?
    Have you visited the German engineer's site(s) where objective data and information are provided, as well as the "eye candy" being built to nicely maximize this electronic reality? Several running tube outputs.
    Otherwise, how can you comment?
    Analogman

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    If you are serious about this and want more than a "zero effort" miracle so you can just talk shit about what a joke this is, remove the cheap opamp from the RCA outs.
    If that don't open your eyes then just keep lovin' dem ole Emperor's Clothes and buying audio porn and jewelry.
    Digital is shit for sound to begin with.
    The Playstation will just give it to you about as good as it gets for pennies.
    If 1/4" aluminum face plates and such is your bag, go for it.
    Analogman

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    Quote Originally Posted by SEAWOLF97 View Post
    In the April issue of Stereophile, John Marks talks about using Sony's original Playstation as a CD player. Says it sounds pretty good, with expensive cables, only OK with standard cables. Despite all that it is very inconvenient to use and not "comparable to a $6000 player" as many boast.

    The best thing anyone could ever do for themselves UNLESS the are EEs, or similar, is to avoid shit rags like "Sterephool" like the plague.

    I learned that one the hard way, and it cost me a LOT of money.

    Those English Majors can really sell the crapola, AND get you jonesing for it.

    I owned a Sonic Frontiers Anthem 1 (6BQ5). Long story, big expensive mistake, mods etc. It was just a piece of shit from the get go. Major disappointment. My first "modern" Stereophool approved tube amp.

    Right this moment, as I type this I am listening to a new acquisition: a Stromberg-Carlson ASR-333 (6BQ5) dead stock original, yet to be refurbished (parts on the way).
    Blows the S.F. out of the fuc&ing water. Stereophool consistently insists that 6BQ5s are only adequate in the BASS department, in general.

    I paid $100 bucks for the S-C and a matching FM/AM tuner. My rebuild on the amp will run me about another $75-$100.

    AudioXpress, V.T.V and a few others are all I read now, as well as texts on the subject (the texts came a little late in life, but I'm trying to understand)

    Sterephool is starting to recognize classic circuits now with heavily couched language in Vintage side bars. "Cause the pricks publishing it are making money off passive parts vendors as the Vintage craze grows.

    Holt left, that should tell you something.....
    Analogman

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    Lot of anger there - seems directed at anyone who disagrees - whats with that??

    Besides, from what I've seen, the problem with MOST techie magazines, be they audio, auto, home improvements or gee-whiz science, is too often they become beholden to the advertisers and can't (don't/won't) call out the weasels like they need to. Big money talks, far too often!

    Quote Originally Posted by analogman View Post
    The best thing anyone could ever do for themselves UNLESS the are EEs, or similar, is to avoid shit rags like "Sterephool" like the plague.

    Holt left, that should tell you something.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by hjames View Post
    Lot of anger there - seems directed at anyone who disagrees - whats with that??

    No, that is not the case......
    It is frustration directed at those who denigrate in absolute terms things that they have no direct experience with, whatsoever, in this case, the Sony Playstation as a CD front end.....
    and justify their broad stroke dismissals with irrelevant "apples and oranges to bananas" comparisons and rationalizations.....based on nothing....
    usually fueled by what they have bought and spent, or what their friends have bought or spent, and often a decision based in large part to what the English Majors at the "Hi-Fi" rags have deemed the flavor of the month, or increasingly, what internet forum lemmings are embracing at any given moment as the answer and solution to "best", or "good" or "great" or "biggest bang" or any other meaningless superlative, no matter the piece of hardware or software it may be under discussion.........not to mention regret for bad buying decisions....

    You are an accomplished violinist for the sake of this discussion:
    Would you buy, let's say, a violin that you have no personal experience with, either playing or hearing, based on a magazine article? On a forum post?
    By the same token, would you refuse to consider it as a possibility, at least until YOU, YOURSELF had experienced the instrument?

    For me, I'm getting a lot more out of it now that I've finally learned to listen with my ears and not with my eyes.

    Analogman

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    Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I've purchased a PS1 SPCH-1001. I've done three days of testing, and, yes, this is an excellent player. I prefer it to my marantz 6000 OSE and my Carver SD/A-360 cd players. The PS1 has a superior midrange to either of these players. Vocals are brilliantly dead-on. Female vocals are nothing short of amazing. I have a couple questions however. I have having bad drop-out problems. I went to the PS1 mod page at dogbreath.de, but for the life of me, I couldnt figure out what tool to use to adjust the laser intensity or bias "screws." What kind of tool is used to make the adjustments on these fragile parts? Has anyone had any success with these adjustments? I can't play a disc with the slightest imperfection and CD-R are really a washout. I'd appreciate any help and thank you for convincing me to purchase one of these lovely players!

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    I am just using a very small philips screwdriver ( the one sold for electronics ) .
    I do not use the help of reading the voltage current but just try see by ear what's going on . Also when you set up , try to start a Cd while the ps1 is open , if the Cd starts after a few turns then it should be ok if it turns too much to find the Cd you have to use the screwdriver .

    Hope this help .

    regards

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