Apex takes another evolutionary leap ... I hope this is true

[AntnyMD]

I'm bored at work so I surf the net.

I found a page for a new Apex DVD/VCD/SVCD/MP3/DVD-Audio/SuperAudioCD player ... priced at US$299. Incredible! This blows that DVD-Audio player I saw at Circuit City for $999 out of the water.

Here's a link:

http://www.jandr.com/JRProductPage.process?RestartFlow=t&Merchant_Id=1&Section_Id=817&...=Current_Price

[Feuerlein]

It's scheduled to be released in USA, late this month or early september...

I'm going to replace my AD-800 for this new AD-7701 and listen to some SACD CD's, I especially look forward to listening to Telarc's new SACD version of Erich Kunzel's - Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture. Hope to blow my apartments windows with the digital cannons

[species8514]

Hi,

I have the Panasonic DVD audio player that i bought from J&R for $350 and it was worth every penny.

DVD-A really is the wasps nipples, and if i may suggest a couple of titles: Nat.Merchants Tigerlilly - and Jazz at the cinema (if you like jazz that is). Both i got from Best buy.

Lets hope that the format stays alive, and see's off SACD..

[AntnyMD]

I wouldnt mind a handful of competing advanced audio formats ... so long as one player is made that plays all of them. I would tend to favor anything based on DVD media because it's likely to be built into players for the next 25 years at least ... but Sony and the supporters of Super Audio CD have a much better catalog of music from which to choose. They could even dig out the old Quadrophonic mixes of some of those 1970s LPs, remix them to Dolby Digital 4.1 using the producers notes for quad sound, and reissue them.

There were a ton of those LPs floating around the used record stores at one time. I'd love to have some Leonard Bernstein stuff in (Dolby Digital 4.1 or) DVD-Audio whatever.

[zzyzzx]

Will it play miniDVD's? I think my Raite 715 will if I upgrade the BIOS.

[Feslmogh]

...wasp nippiles...?

[zap91284]

Is it really a good idea for them to release a Super Audio CD player quite yet? As I remember, the standard format still hasn't been decided on.

[AntnyMD]

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If thats the case, no one's told Sony. The Tower Records store on the campus of the George Washington University in Washington, DC has a buttload of current release SACD versions of all their current artists, from Gloria Estefan to Celine and Jennifer Lopez. They have a lot of catalog stuff like Miles Davis. They even had a couple of soundtracks: Titanic comes to mind.

Sony and the creators of SACD may win the advanced audio war, by sheer volume of titles available. There are scant few titles of DVD-Audio albums available. The one benefit DVD-Audio has over SACD is DVD-Video compatible DVD-Audio discs will play in the millions of DVD players already in homes throughout the world. I have two DVD-Audio titles, but I dunno if they're region coded.

[Mrhide]

http://www.apexdigitalinc.com/ad-7701.htm

http://www.apexdigitalinc.com/ad-3201.htm

read on for the difference...

it's a saleman so he's trying to confuse you to buy the 3201 ...
so.. Go go ad7701


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[mijman]

A world that's happy and content to swap mp3s encoded in 96kbz (and I'm not one of those people) with crappy sound, I don't think is ready for such clarity of sound, much less cares about it. Certainly a select market for the SACD.

[AntnyMD]

MP3s are comparable to cassettes, in my opinion. Americans really latched onto cassettes, strictly for their portability factor. You could even make brilliant "mixtapes" for your friends ... something you couldn't do with LP records.

With MP3s you can make your own mix, trade with your friends, and maintain an extremely high portability factor (in a solid state player, on MP3 CDs, upload to the internet).

Notice neither of those scenarios mentioned quality of playback. No one really cares about ultra high fidelity when portability is the key factor.

With the advanced audio formats, sonic fidelity is the ONLY thing that matters -- otherwise, the audio compact disc is still the best bet for the money (and you get portability)! Unless they start making car audio systems with six channels of discrete audio, or they start making people with six ears for discrete audio input, the current marketing strategy for advanced audio systems will fail.

Otherwise I think surround mixes of my favorite recordings is a great idea. Most current music is just chamber music anyway.

[pacmania_2001]

Does anyone know where you can buy Apex DVD players in Australia? I have searched everywhere. Are they even exported to Australia

[BlackWinterDay]

I don't think it's fair to say that mp3's are comparable to cassettes. Mp3's may be comparable to cassettes for the masses who would encode at low bit rates for easy transfer over Napster, and the ability to keep hundreds of songs on one's hard drive, but there are some of us out there who see mp3's as a viable means to permanently archive their cd collections. My entire cd collection has been reduced to just over a dozen CDR's of the highest quality variable bit-rate mp3's that can be produced. I can honestly say that when I burn a cd, I cannot hear any quality loss at all. While mp3's may not have played a major role in the sonic revolution of music as we know it, they're still kinda cool Uhhh... That went on entirely too long. Goodbye.