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Is Sony 555 CD player too old?
I just got a tremendous fiasco at buying a NAD C545BEE CD player that disclosed not only a real bug for the particular unit but for all NAD CD player in the store (http://forums.audioreview.com/showth...ighlight=sachs. They got embarrassed and are managing a good end for this history. I was wondering if my practically "brand new" Sony 555, that was considered when bought (arround 25 years ago, I think), almost as the "Cadillac" of non professional CD players, would be a too old component to restore in my system. I know very well that reproducing CD's is someting that changes every two months, but I get very unhappy and nostalgic when I see my old wonder, looking as the first day, already surpassed by less expensive models. Many thanks and friendly greetings. I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ACCESS TO THAT "DIGITAL FORUM". Many thanks
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You can do whatever makes you happy with your system. I'm not sure of the year of the 555 sony but I do remember hearing about it years ago as it was talked about very fondly back then. I know alot has changed when it comes to cd players with the dac's and transport mechanisms being better and better but if you like the sony, use it, at least untill you can find another new unit to consider. I don't know if you have been on the digital part of this forum but they have a very informative comparisons of CD players and I would leave the NAD alone seeing how the 399 dollar Emotiva beats the crap out of it and go for either the Emotiva or the musical fedelity model that Mr. peabody talked about if you are wanting to stay in the under 1000 dollar units.
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Many thanks. I think I bought it, very expensive, arround just 16/17 years aago. Is extremely complex, nice and mechanisms are silent. I was alreayd using a newer Sony components whose laser got bad; then I started to look for a replacement. But the day before yesterday I saw the box where the 555 is, and remember its nice performance. I inisist in that people, magazines and so on, say that playing CD's currently is very best when compared with 16 years ago. But I appreciate very much your advice, because it has some sort of existential perspective that means for me a lot, more than technical abstract speculations. So sorry that Emotiva is apparently unavailable here arround. These professional components do not announce them very much. It is some sort of a 'secret' for initiated. Many, many thanks and greetings
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Originally Posted by sachs
I just got a tremendous fiasco at buying a NAD C545BEE CD player that disclosed not only a real bug for the particular unit but for all NAD CD player in the store ( http://forums.audioreview.com/showth...ighlight=sachs. They got embarrassed and are managing a good end for this history. I was wondering if my practically "brand new" Sony 555, that was considered when bought (arround 25 years ago, I think), almost as the "Cadillac" of non professional CD players, would be a too old component to restore in my system. I know very well that reproducing CD's is someting that changes every two months, but I get very unhappy and nostalgic when I see my old wonder, looking as the first day, already surpassed by less expensive models. Many thanks and friendly greetings.
Funny you should ask. I use a Sony CDP-C315. Old as Moses and a changer at that!! Know what? I love it and it sounds fantastic through any amp I hook it up to. I am listening to it at this very moment with my cans on and it delivers a fantastic stage with great seperation, my AKG's absolutely love it.
If it sounds right to you, and you get teary when you look at it, how could that be wrong?!? Come here big guy!!! (Gives you a big Sony hug!!)
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You are a real nice guy. Enthusiastic, passional one. Seem to be Mediterranean. I swear that if I do not get a tremendous compensation from NAD I will ask for my money refund and I stay with my Sony 555. My wife and I have a 14 year old nice cat, that's perfectly healthy (she has just my same age = 72. Who will 'stop' earlier?). Many friendly regards and greetings.
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Originally Posted by poppachubby
Funny you should ask. I use a Sony CDP-C315. Old as Moses and a changer at that!! Know what? I love it and it sounds fantastic through any amp I hook it up to. I am listening to it at this very moment with my cans on and it delivers a fantastic stage with great seperation, my AKG's absolutely love it.
If it sounds right to you, and you get teary when you look at it, how could that be wrong?!? Come here big guy!!! (Gives you a big Sony hug!!)
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Originally Posted by sachs
You are a real nice guy. Enthusiastic, passional one. Seem to be Mediterranean. I swear that if I do not get a tremendous compensation from NAD I will ask for my money refund and I stay with my Sony 555. My wife and I have a 14 year old nice cat, that's perfectly healthy (she has just my same age = 72. Who will 'stop' earlier?). Many friendly regards and greetings.
Mediterranean, not a terrible guess. My mother is Jamaican with British ancestry, my father is Parisian, from France of course. Gotta love Canada eh? Thanks for the cudos, I do enjoy a good laugh and some fun.
But seriously, don't get rid of your Sony because it's old or anyone here runs it down. I think most people will tell you to upgrade, and they wouldn't be wrong in doing so. Keep your eyes open to what's out there and if something comes along that excites you, go for it. I never force a purchase, I wait for the audio god to speak to me and then make my move.
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sachs:
As was suggested on another site where you asked the same question, get a good external DAC if you are concerned about sound quality. As long as the transport continues to spin and read discs your 555 should be fine. A new DAC with up and over sampling would improve the sound.
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Buy a new CD player. Technology has changed and 25 years is a long time for a CD player. After Mr. P's review of the ERC-1, that would be tops on my list for a sub $700 CDP. You can add the Music Hall 25.2 cdp to that list or if you need an all in one CDP/SACD/DVD/BR take a look at the Oppo BDP 83 for $500
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how could I do that because here is no support akready for the 555. please, try to give me a hand, greetings
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Originally Posted by JoeE SP9
sachs:
As was suggested on another site where you asked the same question, get a good external DAC if you are concerned about sound quality. As long as the transport continues to spin and read discs your 555 should be fine. A new DAC with up and over sampling would improve the sound.
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dac cambridge
NAD people offer me a Cambridge DAC, Is it adviceable? Please answer me soon for I have to return the unit a get the money refund. Many thanks
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Originally Posted by blackraven
Buy a new CD player. Technology has changed and 25 years is a long time for a CD player. After Mr. P's review of the ERC-1, that would be tops on my list for a sub $700 CDP. You can add the Music Hall 25.2 cdp to that list or if you need an all in one CDP/SACD/DVD/BR take a look at the Oppo BDP 83 for $500
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NAD people offer me a Cambridge DAC, Is it adviceable? Please answer me soon for I have to return the unit a get the money refund. Many thanks
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Originally Posted by sachs
how could I do that because here is no support akready for the 555. please, try to give me a hand, greetings
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NAD IS "BAD".
Hate to see what has happened to this once fine company.
Had a Cassette recorder of theirs once, it was great, but with everything I have heard
lately I wouldn't buy an alarm clock from them.
As for your Sony, the tech hasn't advanced that much.
As long as you stay away from recorded discs, and it might play those.
"If it ain't broke don't fix it". Your player was made in Japan and they didn't know
how to make bad stuff back then, lots of it still around.
Why toss it if it works? Sometimes vintage works better than the disposable stuff
out there these days.
A decent player will run at least 400 bucks, a lot just to have "new".:1:
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my 555 runs softly and sounds apparently well. I have asked if a Cambridge CAD that offers me NAD Chile is adviceable to improve 555 sound if necessary....Many thanks
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Originally Posted by JoeE SP9
sachs:
As was suggested on another site where you asked the same question, get a good external DAC if you are concerned about sound quality. As long as the transport continues to spin and read discs your 555 should be fine. A new DAC with up and over sampling would improve the sound.
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Many thanks. Actually yout points are extremely true. Those were times of commercia decency and proud to be famous for goodness, not for mediocrity. Many thanks.
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Originally Posted by pixelthis
NAD IS "BAD".
Hate to see what has happened to this once fine company.
Had a Cassette recorder of theirs once, it was great, but with everything I have heard
lately I wouldn't buy an alarm clock from them.
As for your Sony, the tech hasn't advanced that much.
As long as you stay away from recorded discs, and it might play those.
"If it ain't broke don't fix it". Your player was made in Japan and they didn't know
how to make bad stuff back then, lots of it still around.
Why toss it if it works? Sometimes vintage works better than the disposable stuff
out there these days.
A decent player will run at least 400 bucks, a lot just to have "new".:1:
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I would look into the Combridge audio DAC. Your sony has a digital audio out then running a outboard higher end DAC would definately improve the sound. Its just up to you, you could try it and see if it does what you want it to do.
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Camridge DAC test
Tomorrow NAD people will come home with the DAC to test it. Actually my 555 sounds pretty well but there is the danger of eventual failure, and here arround, the snob Sony people do not give it support anymore. At my 72 I thing that I hardly will be able to feeel any subjective difference won't I?. Greetings
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Originally Posted by harley .guy07
I would look into the Combridge audio DAC. Your sony has a digital audio out then running a outboard higher end DAC would definately improve the sound. Its just up to you, you could try it and see if it does what you want it to do.
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You might not hear a difference. But then again you might. Your Cd player is 25 years old or so so there have been many more upgrades in dac's and overall output circuits in the newer units so i would at least try it to see if its worth it to you to buy. It can't hurt nothing just listening to it to see.
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just 16
It is just 16 years old. The DAC costs US$450.00 Too much. I will use Sony 555 until it gets dead an then I will buy something really top of the line (if I do not die before...), Many, many thanks again.
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Originally Posted by harley .guy07
You might not hear a difference. But then again you might. Your Cd player is 25 years old or so so there have been many more upgrades in dac's and overall output circuits in the newer units so i would at least try it to see if its worth it to you to buy. It can't hurt nothing just listening to it to see.
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Testing
I have, since yesterday, listening significative pieces of classical music: strings, piano, chamber, human voice, drums, harp, high modulation places, etc. and they sound very nice (beginnig of Beethoven's ninth by Gardiner with its "concealed" contemporary plain wood drums is perfectly listenable (it's a very eloquent piece of music for testing harmonics). The only "big" inconvenient of "grandpa" 555 is the on/off is not solenoid, then one has to turn it by hand. Transports and remote control are exceptional and completely silent. Many thanks again with friendly regards.
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Originally Posted by harley .guy07
You might not hear a difference. But then again you might. Your Cd player is 25 years old or so so there have been many more upgrades in dac's and overall output circuits in the newer units so i would at least try it to see if its worth it to you to buy. It can't hurt nothing just listening to it to see.
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Originally Posted by sachs
It is just 16 years old. The DAC costs US$450.00 Too much. I will use Sony 555 until it gets dead an then I will buy something really top of the line (if I do not die before...), Many, many thanks again.
HAVE YOU TRIED putting your collection on computer?
With lossless recording the sound from CD is the same for all practical
purposes.
And people not around then don't really remember just how amazing Japan was in the
eighties.
We got a HDTV standard because people were afraid the Japanese were going
to dominate with their standard.
My first AV receiver was a Pioneer, late eighties.
When you fed the video through you could splitscreen and see what the picture
improvements were doing in comparison to a direct feed.
And it wasnt that expensive of a receiver.
When JAPAN HAD THEIR FIRST CRISIS a lot of the fancy stuff went away, but man, it was
magic time for awhile.
I recently saw a Pioneer sx650 , thirty five years old, no refurb, running like a charm.
Thirty five years !!!
Which is one reason I don't buy Pioneer any more, I understand the economics,
but I miss when they put out stuff that would embarass what they do today.:1:
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Consider the Marantz SA5003 CDP, Music Hall 25.2 CDP, Cambidge Audio 540c.
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Dear friend,
What do you mean with putting my CD collection in the PC?
Many thanks for all your kind comments with which I agree. I am enjoying my 555 currently and will ge my money back.
I have troubles for burning private ungapped wav CD's coming from downloaded MP3 files of continuosus music heavy tracked. Resulting CD's are fully gapped when it's most bothering. Re-ripping has been the advice. Lossles for a 72 year old listener doesn't make any difference.
Friendly greetings.
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Originally Posted by pixelthis
HAVE YOU TRIED putting your collection on computer?
With lossless recording the sound from CD is the same for all practical
purposes.
And people not around then don't really remember just how amazing Japan was in the
eighties.
We got a HDTV standard because people were afraid the Japanese were going
to dominate with their standard.
My first AV receiver was a Pioneer, late eighties.
When you fed the video through you could splitscreen and see what the picture
improvements were doing in comparison to a direct feed.
And it wasnt that expensive of a receiver.
When JAPAN HAD THEIR FIRST CRISIS a lot of the fancy stuff went away, but man, it was
magic time for awhile.
I recently saw a Pioneer sx650 , thirty five years old, no refurb, running like a charm.
Thirty five years !!!
Which is one reason I don't buy Pioneer any more, I understand the economics,
but I miss when they put out stuff that would embarass what they do today.:1:
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hi sachs, i have a old sony dvp-7000s player i use as a transport it works dam good, its built like a tank it haves double lazer pickups, one for cds one for dvds , i had it, & use it a lot, for 12 or 13 yrs, it havent missed a beat. i know that some day its going out or it will out live me this is my fist post in this forum hi every one
joe
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hello Joe Welcome to the forum. I am glad to be able to relate to sachs in that you guys have similar players from around the same erra. Its good for people with like gear to find each other so they can share setups and modifications that could make the gear better and better yet. Just chat it up about the hobby that we all seem to have a passion for. good to meet you sir.
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Many very kind and friendly greetings. I share the pleasure of this encounter.
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