Blueray and CD player required help

[IceBoy]

Hi All,

I have a max budget of £350 and need either one machine that will do the job or 2 separate machines.

I would prefer to purchase from Richer sounds, as they are easy to deal with, have good prices etc.

Please help me.

If you could link back to the RS website, that would be appreciated.

IceBoy

[varsas]

I'd get a Panasonic DMPUB700:

https://www.richersounds.com/tv-home-cinema/blu-ra...

As well as playing CD's and BluRay's it'll also play UHD (4k) BluRay's...and is still under budget. This connects via HDMI though, so if you need the standard twin RCA connection for audio to a strandard stereo amp you'd need the '900:

https://www.richersounds.com/tv-home-cinema/blu-ra...

which is slightly over budget. I should say I'm not one of those who believes the CD player makes any difference to the sound, unless it's doing something it shouldn't do, which I trust the Panasonic not to do.

I would have recommended the '400 (which I have) but it's got no display so it's not great as a CD player.

[B17NNS]

Panasonic DMPUB900 is a fraction over budget but was slaying dragons when it was originally priced at £600.

https://www.richersounds.com/panasonic-dmp-ub900.h...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ys6mpdhaZI&t=...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBwFPKBlkDk

https://www.avforums.com/review/panasonic-dmp-ub90...

[IceBoy]

Thanks for the info.

UB900 seems just the ticket.

IceBoy

[B17NNS]

Monty Python said:

Most bluray players don't have phono connectors for the audio

UB900 does.

[Monty Python]

B17NNS said:

UB900 does.

Just noticed :-)

[carlymart]

its £299 for a refurbished one on Panasonic eBay site

[B17NNS]

carlymart said:

its £299 for a refurbished one on Panasonic eBay site

That's brilliant VFM. Lack of Dolby Vision and SACD support is mildly annoying though.

[legzr1]

B17NNS said:

That's brilliant VFM. Lack of Dolby Vision and SACD support is mildly annoying though.

To be fair, SACD wasn't supported when the player retailed at £600 so I agree, brilliant VFM.
It was always a niche format and is becoming more so as time passes.
Well, the optical discs anyway - DACS supporting the format seem to be cropping up regularly so maybe hi-res d/loading is the way forward.

DV is another matter and highlights what is really starting to annoy me - splashing out considerable sums just to see things become almost obsolete overnight. Giving serious consideration to dumping the lot and reverting to 2 channels done well.

[B17NNS]

The Oppo does both but they won't drop the price.

Did e-mail Denon to see if they have anything in the pipeline (would have been nice to have a player to match my receiver and use Denon Link) but they said they've no plans to release a UHD player.

[legzr1]

B17NNS said:

The Oppo does both but they won't drop the price.

Did e-mail Denon to see if they have anything in the pipeline (would have been nice to have a player to match my receiver and use Denon Link) but they said they've no plans to release a UHD player.

Yes, price is the crux of it I suppose.

I'd guess that Denon would leave it to the sister brand Marantz for any future optical disc player - old now, but their CD7 CD player and SA7 SACD player were glorious. Imagine those innards mixed with Denon experience with hi-res surround in one box!

[telecat]

legzr1 said:

B17NNS said:

That's brilliant VFM. Lack of Dolby Vision and SACD support is mildly annoying though.

To be fair, SACD wasn't supported when the player retailed at £600 so I agree, brilliant VFM.
It was always a niche format and is becoming more so as time passes.
Well, the optical discs anyway - DACS supporting the format seem to be cropping up regularly so maybe hi-res d/loading is the way forward.

DV is another matter and highlights what is really starting to annoy me - splashing out considerable sums just to see things become almost obsolete overnight. Giving serious consideration to dumping the lot and reverting to 2 channels done well.

Maybe in Europe its not that hot but the Japanese have a thriving market in SACD. It's why any decent CD player still supports them. I would say that the Sony UBPX800 would do the job but it lacks Audio out relying on SP/DIF and HDMI Digital output. It is designed as a very good audio player supporting DVD-Audio and SACD. If you NEED Audio out then it's predecessor the UHP-H1 would be my choice. The Cambridge CXU would also work. The Problem with both the UHP and CXU is that they upscale to 4K so do not play 4k Discs.

[legzr1]

telecat said:

Maybe in Europe its not that hot but the Japanese have a thriving market in SACD. It's why any decent CD player still supports them. I would say that the Sony UBPX800 would do the job but it lacks Audio out relying on SP/DIF and HDMI Digital output. It is designed as a very good audio player supporting DVD-Audio and SACD. If you NEED Audio out then it's predecessor the UHP-H1 would be my choice. The Cambridge CXU would also work. The Problem with both the UHP and CXU is that they upscale to 4K so do not play 4k Discs.

Fair enough.

Still looks like copyright protection is hamstringing hi-res in audio - I don't see why the Sony would lack analogue audio outputs - seems a little daft.

I knew about the Far East fascination with SACD - I put my whole collection on eBay some years ago when sourcing them was getting silly (and expensive) and the majority went to Australia, NZ and Japan.
Still got a coup,e of DVD-a discs that didn't sell but at least they're playable on BR and DVD players (although not at full resolution obviously).

Would be nice to see Teac (esoteric) produce an excellent sounding play-all device similar to the DV50 of some time ago.

Way off subject of cd and BR playback on the cheap...sorry