How did you guys miss the first Universal Blu-ray player??

[Mr Peabody]

Technically, the Denon plays DVD-A, can the PS3 do that?

Pix, what's your point

LDB sound like a bit of a romantic.

[Luvin Da Blues]

LDB sound like a bit of a romantic.

Psst Mr.P, don't let that be known around here tho, OK.

I'll never hear the end of it from Rich.

[Rich-n-Texas]

Psst Mr.P, don't let that be known around here tho, OK.

I'll never hear the end of it from Rich.

Well, when you live in... where is it, Kenelowa Bitter Cold, what else do you have to do?

Pix couldn't have said it any better eh?

[pixelthis]

BUT LET ME STATE, 2500 bucks aint bad for some things.
I had a windfall a few years back(3500 bucks), an exelent time to upgrade the B&W's.
Instead I wasted it on bills, what a bonehead thing to do.
Having to save for an uncertain future sucks, really.
BUT A DISC PLAYER?
I have seen the 2500$ dedecated CD players from people like LINN.
practically a work of art, but certainly out of my range.
You have to go for value when you are at the bottom of the fish bowl
2500 SPEAKERS?
Sure, when its time to upgrade, speakers are a major part of your system and long lasting.
Too long lasting sometimes when you have to justify new ones to the ol sperm bank.
But a 2500 disc playing anything?
PHOOEY

[pixelthis]

Technically, the Denon plays DVD-A, can the PS3 do that?

Pix, what's your point

LDB sound like a bit of a romantic.

My POINT?
Well, gee, un, lets see,....
OH yeah...

TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED BUCKS

AND FOR WHAT?
Much as I love the idea of SACD, it and DVD-A is dead, basically.
A bLU AUDIO FORMAT will drive a stake into its heart for good.
As for performance, BLU is like CD when it first came out, mainly that a cheap Blu player
will porbably do about as good as an expensive one.
All you get with an expensive one is refinement and a few extra features.
Like playing obsolete audio formats most have never heard of...
Now if I were rich enough to use a crack ho for a footstool on a daily basis
(instead of just for the holidays) then sure why not?
The Lambo insurance is that much a month.
But I LIVE IN A WORLD where 2500 bucks is a new set of Beemer speakers,
five months rent, a pre-pro that I have craved forever, etc.
VIDEO is not like analog audio, you get only very tiny improvements by throwing money at it, and I can get a lot bigger bang for the buck than a very marginal improvement
I would get with the Denon.
Heck, thats a weekend in Vegas!