| crwilli |
12-01-2015 03:23 PM |
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Originally Posted by -E-
(Post 744029)
The DVD5000 is still one hell of a DAC. Lousy transport (could never read CD-Rs) but spectacular DVD player. I remember the composite output on that thing just destroyed the competition that had component outputs at the time - it was that drastic. Feed it well.
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This DVD-5000 has been back and forth across the Pacific Ocean two times and was one of my first real expensive electronics purchases It was SOTA in 1996 for Dolby Digital decoding and video playback at a time I was combining my theater with two channel systems due to living in an apartment. I spent about $2,000 on it in Hong Kong - that is why it is gold. Along with a Denon AVR 3600 receiver, my system was pretty hot at the time. The DVD-5000 has rarely been used for the last 7 years and the AVR3600 receiver is a 220 volt only paper weight. I did have to replace two capacitors in the DVD player which was an exploratory, albeit successful effort on my part. It stopped working, I opened it up and saw two burned capacitors. Found exact replacements at Digikey, bought a solder gun and fixed it. It made me feel good bringing it back from the dead.
But the receiver never properly handled my RS IIa speakers and that led me to the purchase of my first McIntosh amplifier, the MC7106 which I purchased in Seoul Korea in early 1997 at the height of the Asian currency crisis. I paid $2500 for the $3500 amp. Currency arbitrage worked for me!
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