I can't find any of those Denon units broken or cheap. I also don't want to turn this into an s9000es/old DVD player thread but I suppose they are just as valid a solution.
use it up
I know what you mean, 40lbs and all those great parts for just a "DAC". I wouldn't think of it as a waste. Most of those broken units are just used as paper weights. If you are lucky, you might even be able to fix one of them. I was a student on a "very tight budget once long ago. On a tight student budget you might think of it, like the old saying goes; Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. Good luck.....
I know what you mean, 40lbs and all those great parts for just a "DAC". I wouldn't think of it as a waste. Most of those broken units are just used as paper weights. If you are lucky, you might even be able to fix one of them. I was a student on a "very tight budget once long ago. On a tight student budget you might think of it, like the old saying goes; Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. Good luck.....
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My interest would be making the unit work as a player as you said, I like to fix things up. That is why I feel it is a shame to buy something like this just to gut it for the DAC. The DAC is pennies itself, I'm just not smart enough to build a circuit around it as good as Sony or Philips or whoever.
Hi just to say that this is a very interesting thread
About the sound quality of professional DAT recorders, i am sincerely surprised that they have a bad sound for monitoring the recordings really.
I wonder what we have got in our cds in all these years.
Nevertheless given that i see measurements i would love to see measurements carried out on Dat machines ... can be really that bad ?
So why they are still so expensive ?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/STUDER-D780-studio-DAT-recorder-just-fully-serviced-revised-/121565404089?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c4ddcdbb9
this looks really serious ....
Regards, gino
About the sound quality of professional DAT recorders, i am sincerely surprised that they have a bad sound for monitoring the recordings really.
I wonder what we have got in our cds in all these years.
Nevertheless given that i see measurements i would love to see measurements carried out on Dat machines ... can be really that bad ?
So why they are still so expensive ?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/STUDER-D780-studio-DAT-recorder-just-fully-serviced-revised-/121565404089?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c4ddcdbb9
this looks really serious ....
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
Regards, gino
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