The Marantz UD5007 works through his strength and size as a relic of the big HiFi years of the 80s. No streamlined design, but pithy, vile and somehow, despite everything simple and minimalist. He is loose 3 times higher than my old Samsung Player and felt with his 4,2kg least twice as heavy.
Timeless has neither any annoying 3-D logo light (thankfully!), Yet modern touch sensor and has compared to its predecessor Player Marantz no slot in drive, but an out-propelled cargo.
The UD5007 accommodates shielded, isolated and stabilized by the high weight of the quietest drive a Blu-ray player that I've ever heard. Absolute madness, the Samsung BD-E6300 was despite the slot in construction fairly quiet, but the UD5007 the drive will only be heard when starting up, and then no longer be heard from one meter. Also no humming or whistling is heard! Can play the so-called universal drive, all popular media on the round disc. Say, CD, DVD, Blu-ray and SACD.
Other components, the difference certainly good players beyond the suggested retail price of just under 699 - are making the animate quality components, such as the ABT2015 chip for video processing from the house of Anchor Bay that is known to be an outstanding reputation of the restoration of older horror classic have made on DVD or Blu-ray.
The 24-bit / 192kHz audio decoder brings here all common Soundabmischungen to the amplifier or AV receiver that there are.
Sure, a Blu-ray player outputs the digital image via digital HDMI connection to a terminal device (TV or projector) and sends the signal to 1 or 0, to say to formulate naive. Due to food occurs naturally on the inside that has the UD5007 undoubtedly. The only question is whether this justifies the price. For me, without a doubt, yes, because I've never had a soft so or almost noiseless Blu-ray Player ...