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Disaster
24 Sep 2006, 07:25
Around four years ago I was given a Marantz DV4100 Original SE for my birthday. It's a DVD player which also does a fine job of playing CDs.
Except that it does not.
Listening yesterday to New Order's Waiting for the Sirens Call, the player gave up at track four. It had been erratic for some time, frequently having issues just as a film was about to reach its climax or as a track was about to reach its crescendo. My parents have already started asking what I should like for Christmas (this is September, isn't it?) so there was one idea.
We currently rent a DVD-recorder so have no need of another DVD-player. The sound from the recorder is not a patch on that of the Marantz. The long and the short of it is that I decided I really could not cope with three months without a decent CD-player .
I looked into Practical Hi-fi on Friargate and had a chat. And a listen. Granted, I was listening through floorstanding speakers and a Sugden amp (worth about £2 000) but the Marantz CD5001 was a truly enlightening experience.
I spent almost the whole of 1989 listening to The Stone Roses first album so I know it rather well. The instruments are so much better sounding on the 5001. Upgrade to the Original SE version (as I did for an extra forty quid) and
I Am The Resurrection becomes more than just a fantastic tune.
By the time that the salesman had returned to the listening room I was grinning from ear to ear. He had not been sure that it would be worth listening to the OSE version, believing that the difference in sound was too minor. He was very wrong.
Now that I have the CD-player plugged in at home, it still sounds fantastic. My amp is a more humble Yamaha AX-396 but the first twenty seconds of Sympathy For The Devil from Beggars Banquet sounds so different I would not have been able to recognise it.
Kate's been having similar experiences with Baba O'Reilly andWon't Get Fooled Again from Who's Next.
Except that it does not.
Listening yesterday to New Order's Waiting for the Sirens Call, the player gave up at track four. It had been erratic for some time, frequently having issues just as a film was about to reach its climax or as a track was about to reach its crescendo. My parents have already started asking what I should like for Christmas (this is September, isn't it?) so there was one idea.
We currently rent a DVD-recorder so have no need of another DVD-player. The sound from the recorder is not a patch on that of the Marantz. The long and the short of it is that I decided I really could not cope with three months without a decent CD-player .
I looked into Practical Hi-fi on Friargate and had a chat. And a listen. Granted, I was listening through floorstanding speakers and a Sugden amp (worth about £2 000) but the Marantz CD5001 was a truly enlightening experience.
I spent almost the whole of 1989 listening to The Stone Roses first album so I know it rather well. The instruments are so much better sounding on the 5001. Upgrade to the Original SE version (as I did for an extra forty quid) and
I Am The Resurrection becomes more than just a fantastic tune.By the time that the salesman had returned to the listening room I was grinning from ear to ear. He had not been sure that it would be worth listening to the OSE version, believing that the difference in sound was too minor. He was very wrong.
Now that I have the CD-player plugged in at home, it still sounds fantastic. My amp is a more humble Yamaha AX-396 but the first twenty seconds of Sympathy For The Devil from Beggars Banquet sounds so different I would not have been able to recognise it.
Kate's been having similar experiences with Baba O'Reilly and
Won't Get Fooled Again from Who's Next.
