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Sony SCD-XA5400ES - CD/SACD Player
Vivid sound
But this favourable impression was from being limited exclusively to SACD. Take, as an example, the recording on CD of Leif Ove Andnes playing the late Schubert piano sonatas D960 and D850, where the subtle inflections in the first movement of the former have a greater substance, a more physical quality and a slightly greater range on the middle sections where the music is neither loud nor quiet. But where the replay definitely benefits from the XA5400ES's more expressive and better differentiated quality, the 9000 still has the edge.
One of the best surprises during our time with this player was hearing the way that old, familiar recordings scrubbed up clean under the XA5400ES's electronic gaze.
A particularly good example was the excellent Keb' Mo' recording of his Just Like You album, where we could hear the improvement even on its first play using the new player, despite not having played it for months – though this was quickly confirmed with the 9000. Via the new player, the sound was simply fresher, more vivid and alive.
The 9000 by contrast, sounded slightly detached and more distant. Singer Luka Bloom also retained that more tactile, closer quality, with no hint of aggression or the kind of digital evils that often attend a closer musical presentation.
The future of SACD
The Sony SCD-XA5400ES is a very impressive player with SACD, yet in some respects an even more impressive one with CD.
It somehow manages to better the more elderly, but more expensively-engineered SCD-XA9000ES, from which it appears to have been derived. In its time the 9000 set new standards, that others have sometimes equalled, but that have only occasionally bettered.
Eδώ:
http://discuss.itacumens.com/index.php?topic=55958.0
Υπάρχουν συγκρίσεις, ως προς το DAC, και με BENCHMARK DAC1 !!!
:violent-smiley-030:
Άλλη μια σύγκριση με τον... βασιλιά:
Sony SCD-XA5400ES - CD/SACD Player
Vivid sound
But this favourable impression was from being limited exclusively to SACD. Take, as an example, the recording on CD of Leif Ove Andnes playing the late Schubert piano sonatas D960 and D850, where the subtle inflections in the first movement of the former have a greater substance, a more physical quality and a slightly greater range on the middle sections where the music is neither loud nor quiet. But where the replay definitely benefits from the XA5400ES's more expressive and better differentiated quality, the 9000 still has the edge.
One of the best surprises during our time with this player was hearing the way that old, familiar recordings scrubbed up clean under the XA5400ES's electronic gaze.
A particularly good example was the excellent Keb' Mo' recording of his Just Like You album, where we could hear the improvement even on its first play using the new player, despite not having played it for months – though this was quickly confirmed with the 9000. Via the new player, the sound was simply fresher, more vivid and alive.
The 9000 by contrast, sounded slightly detached and more distant. Singer Luka Bloom also retained that more tactile, closer quality, with no hint of aggression or the kind of digital evils that often attend a closer musical presentation.
The future of SACD
The Sony SCD-XA5400ES is a very impressive player with SACD, yet in some respects an even more impressive one with CD.
It somehow manages to better the more elderly, but more expensively-engineered SCD-XA9000ES, from which it appears to have been derived. In its time the 9000 set new standards, that others have sometimes equalled, but that have only occasionally bettered.
Eδώ:
http://discuss.itacumens.com/index.php?topic=55958.0
Υπάρχουν συγκρίσεις, ως προς το DAC, και με BENCHMARK DAC1 !!!
:violent-smiley-030:
