2 excellent deals on Yamaha universal players
Danny Tse
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I think this is a pretty good deal....a brand-new Yamaha universal player, directly from Yamaha for about $90.00 shipped....
Yamaha DV-SL5860 universal player, directly from Yamaha
However, here's potentially a better deal than even that Yamaha universal player.....actually, it's another Yamaha universal player!
Yamaha DVD-S1700 universal player at Newegg.com for $110.00 shipped
It's certainly a classier-looking player, with an aluminum front face plate and those big support feet. It also has more powerful video processing and a detachable power cord. And according to this post at audioasylum.com, the S1700 sounds excellent as well.
However, don't give up on the SL5860 yet....because according to a buyer of the SL5860 that followed my link over at stevehoffman.tv, it also recognizes HDCDs. Don't forget that the SL5860 also does CD upsampling, which the S1700 doesn't do.
Yamaha DV-SL5860 universal player, directly from Yamaha
However, here's potentially a better deal than even that Yamaha universal player.....actually, it's another Yamaha universal player!
Yamaha DVD-S1700 universal player at Newegg.com for $110.00 shipped
It's certainly a classier-looking player, with an aluminum front face plate and those big support feet. It also has more powerful video processing and a detachable power cord. And according to this post at audioasylum.com, the S1700 sounds excellent as well.
However, don't give up on the SL5860 yet....because according to a buyer of the SL5860 that followed my link over at stevehoffman.tv, it also recognizes HDCDs. Don't forget that the SL5860 also does CD upsampling, which the S1700 doesn't do.
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I use a Yamaha Universal DVD/CD changer as my main CD unit...it also has 4X upsampling for CDs. It's not a bad little player in its price range. Not going to take on some higher end units but OK!
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I tried the DVD-S1700 last year. It had trouble with DVD's freezing after the unit had been on for a while (warmed up), especially DVD-R's. I returned it to Crutchfield and exchnged it for another, it did the same exact thing. I read over at AVS that it is a common problem with this model, and the 1800 as well.
It did seem to play SACD's and DVD-A's just fine though.
