Yamaha DVD-S1500 Review Manual

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Summary of DVD-S1500

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    Yamaha dvd-s1500 dvd player manufacturer: yamaha electronics corporation, 6660 orangethorpe avenue, buena park, ca 90620; 800/ 492-6242 price: $450 source: manufacturer loan reviewer: howard ferstler. This review is a bit longer than usual (even for me), because it will deal not only with an sacd/dv...

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    Are two-channel analog outputs for a standard audio hookup to a cd player input and a separate six-jack bank of connectors for multi-channel audio outputs. These output left, center, right, left-surround, right- surround, and subwoofer signals. The latter should be hooked up to the six-jack analog i...

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    Like this for a full 20 seconds before the music started. I got similar results with sacd material and dvd-a sources often took even longer. One, big phat band’s swingin’ for the fences (silverline dvd-a 82002) took a full 35 seconds, because the player actually had to access two menus (automaticall...

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    Consequently, when using the dsp-a1 you can zero out the dvd-s1500’s bass management with all sacd sources (remember, dvd-a is locked in with no bass management to begin with) and then get uniform bass management from all inputs, analog or digital: cd, dvd-a, sacd, dd, and dts. The result is that a ...

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    Not match what the dsp-a1 could do at home (at least in my room) with the cd version is a credit to the yamaha dsp technology. Of course, it is also possible that the master tapes were indeed configured for future surround-sound productions, and in that case the yamaha dsp ambiance simulation proces...

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    Previously, and while they might bother some users, i think that most people will be thrilled with what this device can do. For one thing, it can be shoehorned into a squashed-down rack space that many other upscale players can only dream of achieving. Yes, it is expensive by best-buy budget player ...

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    Measured by cirrus logic with an “a-weighted” filter. That kind of weighting is applied by placing a filter before the noise meter. The filter is said to allow the measurement to better reflect how the ear perceives noise level changes, meaning less sensitivity at the high and low end. Weighting als...

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    For a cd). This is down only 20 db, which is 10 times the value of the 40 db in the fast mode. (remember, decibels are in logs; hence a doubling in decibels is a 10x increase.) maybe a teenage kid can hear it. The slow mode will make the ringing of the filter to an impulse look better in the time do...