Macca
18-07-2015, 11:46
Got one of these off eBay for £20 delivered for no reason other than it was £20 delivered. I closed my eBay account to stop me doing this but since discovered you can still buy BIN stuff as a private sale so back at square one. Quite a pretty looking thing in champagne finish:
http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac233/Macca_photos_2009/pioneer%20dv737%20images.jpg (http://s903.photobucket.com/user/Macca_photos_2009/media/pioneer%20dv737%20images.jpg.html)
Until you get close up and realise its awesome plasticity. That's not a brushed aluminium facia, I'm afraid. Still, you can add a ton of brushed ally and it does sweet f.a for the sound so on to more important things - like the sound.
When I buy a DVD player off of eBay for twenty notes I usually expect two things. One, it will have a DVD inside it. Two, it won't work, at least not properly.
This time the DVD was 'Mama Mia - The Movie'. (Last time it was 'Transformers 3'). I removed it from the awesome plastic tray and, having sent it spinning frisby -like across the room, put some music in instead. So expectation one was met but two wasn't in that the player did work, once the drawer had rumbled back in. No smooth Sony type mech here, although not as noisy as my Blu ray player which sounds like an eighteenth century threshing machine in need of a service.
Interesting sound, a bit sparkly in the top in a sort of pseudo-high end Japanese sort of way. Warm bass with a bit of weight to it. Ultimately not very exciting or involving, but I did feel on occasion that there is actually a very good CD player in there somewhere, trying to get out. Not much on the net, indeed pretty much all I could finds was a few old posts on this very site advising that it made a good transport. So I advertised for a cheap DAC. Severalhours later, though, on firing up the player again it has now decided to stop reading discs. So that's that.
It does, however, take top spot from my B&O player in being my shortest-lived CD playing acquisition (if you discount those that were DOA) managing only about 10 hours on it from arrival to death.
Great hobby this, remind me again why we do it...?
http://i903.photobucket.com/albums/ac233/Macca_photos_2009/pioneer%20dv737%20images.jpg (http://s903.photobucket.com/user/Macca_photos_2009/media/pioneer%20dv737%20images.jpg.html)
Until you get close up and realise its awesome plasticity. That's not a brushed aluminium facia, I'm afraid. Still, you can add a ton of brushed ally and it does sweet f.a for the sound so on to more important things - like the sound.
When I buy a DVD player off of eBay for twenty notes I usually expect two things. One, it will have a DVD inside it. Two, it won't work, at least not properly.
This time the DVD was 'Mama Mia - The Movie'. (Last time it was 'Transformers 3'). I removed it from the awesome plastic tray and, having sent it spinning frisby -like across the room, put some music in instead. So expectation one was met but two wasn't in that the player did work, once the drawer had rumbled back in. No smooth Sony type mech here, although not as noisy as my Blu ray player which sounds like an eighteenth century threshing machine in need of a service.
Interesting sound, a bit sparkly in the top in a sort of pseudo-high end Japanese sort of way. Warm bass with a bit of weight to it. Ultimately not very exciting or involving, but I did feel on occasion that there is actually a very good CD player in there somewhere, trying to get out. Not much on the net, indeed pretty much all I could finds was a few old posts on this very site advising that it made a good transport. So I advertised for a cheap DAC. Severalhours later, though, on firing up the player again it has now decided to stop reading discs. So that's that.
It does, however, take top spot from my B&O player in being my shortest-lived CD playing acquisition (if you discount those that were DOA) managing only about 10 hours on it from arrival to death.
Great hobby this, remind me again why we do it...?