Survey: Best CD Audio Sound for DVD Player

[nightflier]

I'm not that swift in technical matters so can you please explain this. How does one place an (Argon) DAC under your DVD player. I don't understand. Do you mean you opened yours up and replaced the DAC with this? How does a person without technical knowledge do this or do they not & just take it to an electrician or someone to install? Thanks

Sorry, I should have clarified that the DAC is a seperate component. BTW, the Aragon is a bit wide and would not fit on everyone's audio rack, but if you're looking for something small and very high quality, the Classe DAC1 is awesome and only about the size of a large brick - it can fit behind things if you want. It's running about $500 used right now so if that's too expensive try a used CAL, Audio Alchemy, or even a Theta unit. DAC's really have no moving parts and so they tend to last a long time w/o needing service (unlike a CD/DVD player).

[HT BUFF]

Not sure what you mean there, it is the only connection I have, do not use analog cables??
Are you talking that the receiver does the ALL the decoding?

[shokhead]

Dig and the receiver decodes and analogs the player does.

[jamison]

well my best sounding cd audio is still my CD player... I have a Pioneer DV-45A, dvd and the pioneer 301 disc dvd changer F727? My Cd player is a pioneer PDR-839 compact disc recorder with a 3 disc changer on the left and a burner on the right.. the changer is clunky and takes a while to load cds but it does give a a heckofalot better sound than either of my DVD players.. I use the DV-45 A for SACD and DVD AUDIO mostly I have tried it for CD audio and it just doesnt impress me a lot.. it also says it plays MP3s but It wont recognize all the tracks on my mp3 cds so i skip it.
I have the Cd player connected with analog connections and I also have a Coax digital connection going into My Alesis DEQ230D EQ. from there it goes to my preamp. the analog sounds great but so does the digital....I use to eq to tweak the bass either up or down very slightly and sometimes i cut the highs on some of the heavy metal stuff i listen to.. no upside down xmas treees on my eq thank you

[jamison]

BTW i did some checking on that Panny dvd player... seems its reliability is an issue... not getting very good reviews on amazon.com

[shokhead]

BTW i did some checking on that Panny dvd player... seems its reliability is an issue... not getting very good reviews on amazon.com

Which one would that be?

[shokhead]

I'd like to know some DVD players that have better Dac's then say the Denon 2805,3805,the same mid priced Yamahas and Pioneers.

[nightflier]

Not sure what you mean there, it is the only connection I have, do not use analog cables??
Are you talking that the receiver does the ALL the decoding?

No the DAC does.

[jamison]

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[gorilla196635]

Yamaha CDC735 CDP
Pioneer CLDM301 LDP

I use both of these players for CD. The Pioneer is quite old and still works great. CD sound is probably the best I have heard from all of my devices.. It is hooked up anologue....

The Yamaha is good as well, was supposed to be my dedicated CD player since it has 5 CD changer and I too was told a dedicated CD player will sound better than DVD players... However the Yamaha skips very randomly and sometimes from song to song and back and forth... So i have gone back to old faithful Pioneer laser disc player...