DVD-player McIntosh MVP861
Can discuss any number or condemn design McIntosh, but ... the best Swiss watches also not very much has changed in the last hundred years. Here there is a charisma, and inimitable style, and something oligarchic - say, the rest is not given to understand or feel. The photograph is not able to convey the majestic beauty of the glass front panel with fiber-optic lighting. Behind him is a computer drive that reads data from the CD, quad-speed (they are stored in the 8 MB buffer and then enter the path). Power is supplied from multi-loop system with a transformer R-Core. The signal path has a system that minimizes jitter and provides full correction of reading errors, three DAC Burr-Brown 24 bit/192 kHz (model not specified, but it is known that they support the work flow as a PCM, and with DSD) and three analog cascade - one responsible for signaling outputs 5.1, the second - on the line stereo, the last - on balanced XLR. In the video used 12-bit converters, operating at a frequency of 108 MHz.
Cursory familiarity with the universal sound "Mac", I'm afraid, may disappoint you. From a player's worth waiting for revelations, and the first CD listening experience expressed by the words heavily, without scope. Only then, overhearing, you begin to realize that the unit will play the sound as it is, not decorating musical material without masking rudeness PCM 16 bit/44 1 kHz. The scene is accurate, but is compact, sounds slightly disordered, but natural, dynamic bit squeezed, if you use an unbalanced output. When connected to the player XLR attitude changes radically. Friendly shock becomes much more realistic, fine detail show through even the most powerful contrasts and reverberation worked with filigree precision to the latest minor bits of information.
Which actually costs money MVP861, becomes clear when you listen to SA-CD and DVD-Audio. At the sound of the order reigns, revealed the full range of musical emotions, the picture becomes much cleaner and bigger. Grand difference - you stood and listened to the broadcast, and suddenly the door opened into the room where the sound of live music. Voices played very rich. Drums worked so accurately that the eyes are looking drumkit. Emotional vocals, naked, pure and free. There are minor flaws - the bass is still lightly loaded. And top it seems not so cleansed as competitors. But still the sound of this "Mac" is able to divert and fascinate.
