My impression of 2109 as a transport versus JVC1050

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Posted by RT on May 14, 1999 at 11:10:34

I've owned a Toshiba 2109 for about 7 weeks now. The 2109 was my first step into digital theater (not having owned a laserdisc player of CD player with a digital feed) and I have been delighted by its performance for HT. Something about spending an affordable $300 on a player that has performed without a glitch with the exception of one lock up. Its never done it again. I can say that I abosutely love DD, and have luke warm feelings about DTS (Apollow 13). I haven't noticed a significant improvement in sound with DTS in my HT.

I've learned that the Toshiba 2109 is not a good transport for music in my system. I have a combination of mid- and hi-fi gear for my two channel that includes ProAc Response 2 speakers, Sony TA9000ES preamp, HSU 12va sub, B&K amps, and audioquest/MIT T2 interconnects and speaker cables. When I first listened to the digital out on my Toshiba, I was very disapplinted with the sound. I was like "this is good digital sound?". So many have raved about the excellent digital performance of all the new cheap DVD players. To me, sound was bright and skeletal when I used the 2109 as a transport. Music had abosolutely no involement for me. I much preferred the sound of my wifes old Onkyo $300 5 disk changer with analogue outputs only. I must say I was surprised to prefer the sound of the cheap Onkyo DACS fed into the analogue inputs of the TA9000ES, which then reprocessed the signal with its internal DACs.

I very recently purchased a 1-month used JVC1050 formerly sold as part of the recent units sold at soundcity.com. I figured $300 bucks wasn't too bad to try something new, especially for an old transport that many say equals or exceeds transports of today. By the end of the first two tracks on Patricia Barbers "Modern Cool" CD, I had noticed several things that the JVC did better. Brass and guitar were much smoother without loss of detail. The music had flesh to it. My music enjoyment doubled and I was very comfortable with the sound. All of this with just the switch of a transport!

So there you have it. I'm convinced now that transports DO make a difference in 2-channel audio. I told myself that if I couldn't hear a difference with the JVC versus my Tosh. 2109, then I would sell the JVC and buy a mega changer. Well, my wife doesn't get a mega changer and the JVC1050 is staying! By the way, if you find this piece on the used market, do consider buying because it is truly a nice unit. I won't ever be listening to music through the Toshiba again.

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Topic - My impression of 2109 as a transport versus JVC1050 - RT 11:10:34 05/14/99 (18)

Re: My impression of 2109 as a transport versus JVC1050 - mtrycrafts 16:42:44 05/16/99 (4)

Re: I disagree, but will AB anyway to satisfy my curiosity.. - RT 07:24:16 05/17/99 (3)

Re: I disagree, but will AB anyway to satisfy my curiosity.. - mtrycrafts 17:06:15 05/17/99 (2)

Minor Correction - James Mancini 13:18:35 05/18/99 (1)

Re: Minor Correction - mtrycrafts 09:59:36 05/19/99 (0)

Re: My impression of 2109 as a transport versus JVC1050 - Estes 21:43:29 05/15/99 (12)

Re: My impression of 2109 as a transport versus JVC1050 - mtrycrafts 16:44:49 05/16/99 (3)

Re:results - Estes 20:51:28 05/16/99 (2)

Re:results - mtrycrafts 17:09:32 05/17/99 (1)

Re:results - Estes 20:30:57 05/17/99 (0)

Re: My impression of 2109 as a transport versus JVC1050 - Michael 09:38:08 05/16/99 (5)

Re: My impression of 2109 as a transport versus JVC1050 - mtrycrafts 16:38:51 05/16/99 (4)

The Sensible Sound is a joke - Michael 18:30:27 05/18/99 (3)

Re: The Sensible Sound is a joke - petew 06:02:14 05/23/99 (1)

Re: The Sensible Sound is a joke - mtrycrafts 16:23:52 05/23/99 (0)

Re: The Sensible Sound is a joke - mtrycrafts 10:10:15 05/19/99 (0)

Interesting - Rod M 07:08:56 05/16/99 (1)

Re: Interesting - Estes 20:46:50 05/16/99 (0)

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