It details come to light and sound differences that suppresses my middling Sony DVD player. Repetitive sounds such as drum beats, which were thought to be identical, suddenly show subtle differences. But the most important thing seems to me the higher resolution playback, and even advertises the Denon. It is not an empty promise! I even dare say that one or the other analog apostles might start to wonder here if he did not yet want to give a chance of evil, cold and angular sounding CD.
I've tested, a Mozart piano concerto and a long passage from Wagner's Die Walküre with the Senne Sennheiser HD 650 belongs and thereby repeatedly switched back and forth between this unit and the DVD player, that is, inserted the CD in the DVD player and to This unit heard the lossless ribbed version via the converter. Between the two players put an old but respectable amplifier Pioneer A-717 Mark II What I particularly noticed. The sound of a piano key is from the DCD 1520e Coming a beginning, a middle and an end and is not just a uniform block , The strings and vocals have only their natural vibrato, and not this constant, restless roughness that I held earlier for normal.
Without understanding exactly how it works technically, I have a feeling that the old players and also the MacBook, when I connect the headphones directly, hand the data supported a little. As a silent finale will then eventually, simply cut close to the threshold of hearing, during which player just further stay tuned. Such differences jump one not immediately face. But if you have heard them, no longer wants to be. Back in the world of pianos and roughened metallic violin strings
Since I like to listen to music through headphones, me the controllable output KH was important. And for me it sounds pretty good, similar to the the amplifier. For all that played a key role for me, I therefore give the full five stars. Who wants to know details about the features, I recommend to download the manual from the Denon site.
But now a quiet, perhaps a little kleinkariertes word of criticism: On the remote control I would have liked a clearer in the dark erfühlbare Play / Pause button and it gladly dispense with the many buttons that are destined for other Denon devices. For me as a happy member of the Apple cult brand loyalty is not a foreign concept, but I'm going to definitely buy a new amplifier, just so my remote control begins to make sense.
