Toshiba SD-9500E

[Audio Al]

Well its main strength is DVD A, it was among the last of the great dedicated DVDA devices from one of the Japanese majors. Its a good DVD player and has a good DAC, and also pretty good at HDCD decoding. It sounds better from its balanced outputs, though I use mine as DVDA transport into a Esoteric D5 DAC which can decode the DVDA discs. Never tried it as a CD player, so I have no idea how good it is at that.

Most of that went right over my numpty head , Reads like hieroglyphs to me

[Bazil]

Just have 2 or 3 glasses of something nice Al and it will sound great

[Bazil]

also pretty good at HDCD decoding.

I think we can all remember a truly wonderful sonic experience and my most memorable was using the Tosh as a transport into my Arcam D33 DAC and I had CS&N Demos playing , it is a HDCD , the lights were off ,glass of red and I was spellbound by the sound , can't remember anything that good in my room .

[Audio Al]

Just have 2 or 3 glasses of something nice Al and it will sound great

I do hope so

[Spectral Morn]

I think we can all remember a truly wonderful sonic experience and my most memorable was using the Tosh as a transport into my Arcam D33 DAC and I had CS&N Demos playing , it is a HDCD , the lights were off ,glass of red and I was spellbound by the sound , can't remember anything that good in my room .

Mine was a Shanling with HDCD decoding and King Crimsons In the Court of The Crimson King. In saying that I had a wonderful experience this afternoon with Dead Can Dance Into The Labyrinth and Spirit Chaser.

[Audio Al]

Arrived , its huge and heavy , will unpack it later today

[Spectral Morn]

Arrived , its huge and heavy , will unpack it later today

Avoid lifting it out via the front, keep your hands away from where the disc loads, also there must be space for the front to drop as it does to allow the tray to come out.

[Bazil]

Arrived , its huge and heavy , will unpack it later today

Wow that was quick , but there is a reason.
My UPS Access point was in accessible due to road works so I went to the main depot .

[Bazil]

Avoid lifting it out via the front, keep your hands away from where the disc loads, also there must be space for the front to drop as it does to allow the tray to come out.

Yes the front screen drops down and then the tray comes out , lovely mechanism .

[Audio Al]

Blimey, That is a super cool CD player , Its built on a copper chassis Will have to take the top off and have a look inside ,

A quick look shows a sub output , time to read the manual me thinks .

As you say a lovely door mechanism super smooth

I'm not surprised it cost that much new

Well happy , Thanks