Your Opinion Pls, Marantz CD5001 or CA 640C v2?

Well, I came across an interesting web site regarding MHZ CD66 (88) !!!!!


MHZS-CD66F_MHZS CD88


Direct from the web site:



MHZS CD 66 & CD88
Are we really looking at the new KING OF HIGH-END ????!

Wow, this looks mighty cool. Vacuum Tube Player. That's what we have been asking all the time. Tube player and high-end audiophile. It seems like this is it.
I am not so sure what HDCD TUBE CD stands for, but I trust them it is a hell of a feature. But thank God for the Accurate Optimized Output !!!!

WHAT IS MOST EXCITING that they have a new, unknown, proprietary DAC chip !!!

To the non-believers - I will repeat their claim:



SUPER 24 BIT 192 KHZ DAC BY MHZS "WHICH IS BETTER THAN CS OR BB DAC






Do you get it folks? no more domination of Burr Brown, Crystal Semiconductors, etc. Since these two companies are best, I guess that as a result of MHZS innovation - the other makers like Analog Devices, Sony, Matsushita, Philips, Wolfson - they can all start packing their bags.

Boy it had to be a big effort to make a completely new chip. It took the other industry peers 20 years to optimize their DAC circuits to arrive at wonderful DACs like CS4397, AD1855, BB1794 and Wolfson 8740. And imagine - Texas and Sony have unlimited resources, laser machinery, deep-blue computers, R&D teams of the size of a university. And yet the MHZS clever Chinese people managed to jump start ahead of all others and revolutionize the industry.



Sounds too good to be true ? Well then it is ..................................


Here is the inside story of the new invented SUPER 24 BIT 192 KHZ DAC Chip ?????





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Interesting isn't it?

It's ok Psychotropic . . .

Thanks SoundsGreat . . . I will do that.

It's ok Psychotropic . . .

Thanks SoundsGreat . . . I will do that.

Thanks SuhasG . . . very interesting indeed!

Suhas, took a cursory glance at the link. Feeling sleepy and have to get up at 0400 tomorrow. But, the whole article sounded very sarcastic to me !!!

Cheers

Back in 2002, a lot of the industry guys including TNT, AudioEnz, 6Moons, and Stereophile went apes over a small European company called AH!. What these guys did was to take a standard Marantz player, rip the electronics and replace it with a tube based output system. They would then sell the system fro about 800$ to a 1000$

It will be interesting to see if they are yet alive.

AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000 CD Player [English]
ah! njoe tjoeb 4000home-en
Stereophile: AH! Njoe Tjoeb 4000 CD player

The company URL

ah!1-en

Cheers

Irrespective of what converter it uses and the sly way of disguising a cheap converter, I can vouch for that CD player. It sounds very very good... nice organic sound with a very beautiful extended top end. Its slightly bass shy but nothing substantially bad and at that price, it really has no competition other than the standalone chinese dacs.

Hi,

Suhas thanks for the link ! though it was a pure insult based insight into the player ! but the Author does however has some good things to say overall (infact too many ) !!

Yeah its very sad that these companies drive us nuts with these products ! This makes the popular belief that all Chinese products are junk even more truer and stronger then ever !! but for a regular person its not easy to get these info and the result is ? well we all know !

Anyway I have heard the player in question and honestly it sounded ok to me (If not exceptional or over the edge ) Hence my recommendation ! I did this with the somewhat top of the line equipment ! Am not alone who think like this ! as there many and in this very forum itself (please dig a bit to read the comments on this player here in the forum by other members).

So I don't know but as the Author of that write-up himself admits that it sounded good, then what else can I add ?

Once again thanks for the post as otherwise many people including me would've got convinced bout the player !

Xela after this eventful read of the player's qualities, I'd say better pickup CA and close the deal !!

Regards.

I will do that on Saturday, SoundsGreat!

Just a quick note on the Ah!, I have one at home , this product comes from Europe and when it was launched in the US, it was available for less than $400, for that price it was a no brainer. However, if you dont consider the cost the player has enhanced mids and no where the detail that most players give, not to mention low bass. All in all though for that price it was a good player. The USD to EUR was close to half of what it is now, with the price of the EUR doubling wrt to the USD, the price has also doubled. At $800 its not such a good buy any more, the Eastern Minimax is a very nice player for about a $100 more.
Overall between the MHZS and the Ah!, no comparision in whatsoever way.

cheers