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From: schley@mmm.UUCP (Steve Schley)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CD Survey Results!!
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 10:25:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 10:25:53 1985
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In article <83800004@convexs> allison@convexs.UUCP writes:
>
>Here's the CD "quad-sample, dual D/A" summary that I promised a couple of
>weeks ago.  Thanks for all the responses!  As many of you pointed out, the
>September issue of Digital Audio had this information.  For those of you who
>didn't see it, here is the list of all known machines of this type.  All except
>the Mission DAD-7000 have a digital output filter as well.

None of these have a "digital output filter".  All of them (to my
knowledge) have a digital reconstruction ("anti-aliasing") filter, and
all have a gentle analog reconstruction filter at the output.
>
>Player                  List Price	  Notes
>------                  ----------        -----
>Magnavox FD1040SL         389.95   Unknown number of D/A's
>Maganvox FD1041BK         229.00   Unknown number of D/A's
>Magnavox FD1051BK         259.00   Unknown number of D/A's
>Magnavox FD2041BK         229.00   Unknown number of D/A's
>Maganvox FD2040SL         499.95   Unknown number of D/A's
>Maganvox FD3040SL         599.95   Unknown number of D/A's
>Marantz CD-150            399.95
>Marantz CD-74             599.95
>Sylvania FDE203SL         299.99
>Sylvania FDD104SL         499.95   Digital Audio says only 1 D/A
>B&O Beogram CDX           699.00
>Cambridge Audio CD1      1985.00   Six (count 'em) D/A's!
>McIntosh MCD 7000        1395.00
>Meridian MCD              699.00
>Mission DAD-7000          649.00   Yuck! Analog output filter
>Nakamichi OMS-5           995.00
>Nakamichi OMS-7          1295.00
>Revox B225               1150.00   according to Ben Broder (moncol!ben) and
>				      Paul Kemp (ihnp4!hou2a!pjk)

All of the Magnavox, Marantz, Sylvania, Nakamichi, Meridian, Mission,
and Revox machines possess TWO DACs.  This is implicit in the Philips
conversion technique.
>
>Sorry in advance for any mistakes in this list!  I make no guarantees...
>
Neither do I...
>
>Brian Allison              {allegra, ihnp4, uiucdcs, ctvax}!convex!allison
>Convex Computer Corp.                          - OR -
>Richardson, TX         {allegra, ihnp4, uiucdcs, ctvax}!convex!convexs!allison

-- 
	Steve Schley

	ihnp4!mmm!schley