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Wednesday, 01 January 2003
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Written by
Richard Elen
Introduction
The
NAD C521i is the latest version of NAD’s CD player. It attempts to
offer very high audio performance at an affordable price – a goal in
which it succeeds, largely via a combination of offshore manufacturing
(the unit is made in the People’s Republic of China to NAD specs) and
careful product design, focusing on “must-have” features and limiting
the implementation of bells and whistles you tend to use only once or
twice in the lifetime of a player.
The C521i features Burr-Brown 20-bit delta-sigma converters for maximum
audio quality. CDs are only 16-bit, but over-specifying the converters
is a good decision. Even now, to get true 16-bit capability, you need
to aim a little high. Also on the technical side, the unit features
separate analog and digital power supply regulation. The actual
converter chips inside a piece of digital equipment are one of the
least important bits as far as sound is ...
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Friday, 01 November 2002
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Written by
Jerry Del Colliano
Introduction
I
doubt Sony could have imagined the impact the invention of the Compact
Disc would have on their company and project partner Philips. For
nearly 20 years, the CD has been the absolute king of prerecorded music
in the marketplace, having decisively beaten the LP and the cassette
tape, then fending off new format threats from DAT, DCC and even Sony’s
own mini-Disc. We have loved and collected the CD for an entire
generation, but the times, they are a-changing.
The advent and popular acceptance of MP3 as a music format now allows a
music enthusiast to arrange and share (or potentially steal) music in
ways not even remotely dreamed of a mere five years ago. This reality,
coupled with a never-before-seen creative recession on the part of new
artists and their record labels (try stomaching ‘N Sync, O Town, Justin
Timberlake, et al as examples) hasn’t helped the historically
"recession proof" record business ...
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Friday, 01 November 2002
,
Written by
Jerry Del Colliano
Introduction
I
doubt Sony could have imagined the impact the invention of the Compact
Disc would have on their company and project partner Philips. For
nearly 20 years, the CD has been the absolute king of prerecorded music
in the marketplace, having decisively beaten the LP and the cassette
tape, then fending off new format threats from DAT, DCC and even Sony’s
own mini-Disc. We have loved and collected the CD for an entire
generation, but the times, they are a-changing.
The advent and popular acceptance of MP3 as a music format now allows a
music enthusiast to arrange and share (or potentially steal) music in
ways not even remotely dreamed of a mere five years ago. This reality,
coupled with a never-before-seen creative recession on the part of new
artists and their record labels (try stomaching ‘N Sync, O Town, Justin
Timberlake, et al as examples) hasn’t helped the historically
"recession proof" record business ...
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Friday, 01 November 2002
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Written by
Richard Elen
Introduction
In
the moderately recent days when Marantz was owned by Philips, the
company released two high-end players that were intended to be direct
equivalents of one anotherr: one was a Super-Audio CD player (SACD),
and the other, the DV-12S1, was a DVD player capable not only of
DVD-Video playback, but also replay of the latest high-resolution
DVD-Audio (DVD-Audio) discs. With the Marantz equipment of this period,
the higher the quality of the unit, the lower the model number, and the
DV-12S1 is as low as the numbers get.
The first thing you notice about the DV-12S1 is how heavy it is. The
unit is big and solid, and has a large footprint – it’s nearly 16
inches deep and weighs 29 pounds. The unit itself has curved corners,
in keeping with much of the Marantz gear, and elegantly complements
their other equipment. The build quality overall is excellent.
The
rear panel includes an S-video output, ...
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Monday, 01 July 2002
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Written by
Tim Hart
Introduction
CD-R
and CD-RW technology continues to offer faster ways of recording and
archiving media, whether it be copying MP3 files, burning copies of
your favorite CDs for your personal use or backing up your computer
files, just to name a few.
Yamaha’s latest offering, the
CRW3200, addresses the need for speed with a CD-R, CD-RW, and CD-ROM
drive that has the capability to write data at a blazing 24x. Able to
rewrite at 10x and read at 40x, the CRW3200 will also support a wide
variety of formats such as CD-DA, CD TEXT, CD-ROM, Mixed Mode CD-ROM
(CD-ROM and CD-DA), CD-ROM XA, photo CD, Video CD, CD-i, and CD EXTRA.
The CRW3200 is also the first kid on the block with CD-MRW (CD Mount
Rainier Rewrite) format. This format allows much easier manipulation of
your CD-RW data, eliminating the need for special applications or
proprietary drivers to be able to read the disc to ...
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