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DACs are important, no doubt about that at all. And Analog is a totally seperate issue and not the point of this thread.


I have plugged a multitude of DVD players into my system, currently I use two on my main system. A Marantz I paid $1400 for and a Pioneer 919 combo player.

I auditioned countless players before I settled on the Marantz. I was not interested in features at all. I can tell you with out a doubt EVERY machine I plugged into my system looked and sounded ENTIRELY different. The Marantz sounded MUCH better than any other model I looked at, that's why I bought it.

Again, I tested these units by plugging them into my own system, using the same cables.

To suggest that they all were exactly the same and my wife, family and friends that helped audition them are all completely nuts is simply asinine.