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Santa needs a gift suggestion ! Something fantastic for $3999 !

Posted by Bambi B (A) on November 6, 2010 at 07:59:31

PAINTING: American Zenith, 1958


Mates,

Sorry, that should read "$39.99".

Christmas is near and almost simultaneously my mum's CD changer** failed and the cheap and nasty Sony DVD/VHS player remote is lost and even a $25 universal remote would be a waste. The replacement remote for the $90 player costs $60!. I thought to try and find a Blu-ray/DVD player that can also do a respectable job with ordinary audio CD's. The budget is unfortunately only about $250.

**[The living room audio system is semi-moribund: a 1970's Sansui TT, Nakamichi CR3A cassette, 50W Sansui integrated, mid-60's Sherwood solid state tuner, and some kind of bookshelf speakers that she says are "tinny". I think they're Bose. She had some fairly nice, big KLH's but sold them for nothing at a garage sale as they "seemed too large"- after 30 years!]

The system: a 4 month-old Vizio 42" 1080p, 120Hz LCD, a late 80's Onkyo receiver 2X120W (I think), (2) Infinity Primus 362 speakers. There is a Roku box (wireless) for Netflix streaming.

There will be a lot of classic movies- DVD and Netflix streaming. Regardless of the player, I think there'll be great surprise at the video quality as my mum has never seen Blu-ray. Audio content is opera, lieder, chamber, and piano and often remastered older- 50-60's recordings- Beverly Sills, Leontyne Price**, and Joan Sutherland and for piano 50's Rubinstein and Horowitz.

**[She studied voice in the 60's with a Price student.]

Of course, I don't expect fantastic sound, but it would have to be better than the inexpensive 1986 Pioneer 5 disk changer it replaces.

A tall order probably, but it seems to me the prices are falling for designs with more capabilities. In fact the prices are dropping such that there seems to be a portion of people trying to get more for open box and used players on Ebay than they currently cost new from Amazon with free shipping,..

Thanks!

Cheers,

Bambi B

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