DVD-player Arcam DV137
Arcam DV137 - the first universal player in the lineup of the British company A & R Cambridge, and touring with a capital letter, with extensive format support (make yourself by looking at the table playable media). The machine used the most advanced to date digital technology: the processor core is Zoran Vaddis 888S, sound is processed 32-bit DSP and DACs Wolfson WM8740, the image passes through the video scaler ABT1010 and converted video DACs Analog Devices 11 bit/216 MHz. Developed opportunities for connection and management. On the back you will discover all the main types of outputs, including HDMI (with support 1920/1080p), input for external control Arcam, trigger input and bus RS232.
The player has a solid chassis and vibration-damped top cover. Reinforces the sense of things soundly and weight of the device - for this size it is very big already. System management and configuration differs forethought. Comfortable in general and remote control, but it should be recognized that the buttons are located on it somehow haphazardly and not highlighted.
"British" from the first seconds grabs attention. CDs are played with astonishing thoroughness - the scene is accurate and very large, complex tones in the low and mid-range is not crumpled and are not involved in the mess, the dynamics of realistic upper band is almost devoid of digital touch-up. DV137 in sound combines seemingly incompatible concepts - emancipation and orderliness. At each phonogram this player dig up such sound "layers", the existence of which did not even know what causes the desire to re-listen to all my little old CDs. However, the ultra-high sound resolution DV137 is a downside. Detail is sketchy - stereopicture before you is more like an accurate three-dimensional drawing, and not the actual image. Strictly neutral tone handwriting only reinforces this feeling.
With the same pedantry unit plays and audiophile media. Phonogram on SA-CD resemble recent advances game 3D-graphics. Sound almost photographic - have all the details, reflections, colors, but something living is not enough. DVD-Audio convey the emotional and plasticity, but here the machine shows no desire to build a solid musical and artistic image.
I will not relate this feature DV137 imperfections. This approach also has the right to life. The first and most important mission of any player - to extract all information from the phonogram. In this capacity universal Arcam incomparable. And here is how to present information, more dependent on the amplifier and speakers.
