New!!!!! NVA CD players

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

You have to send me the dosh either by bank transfer of paypal gift then you will be listed. Remember it is not returnable unless I abort the project.

[selby]

2.No mention of inputs (or did I miss this) USB, Coax, HDMI ? or would I need a stand alone DAC for other sources.

I'm interested in this question as well, if there is a decent input and DAC then I'd have one as I could use it for two uses.

[Fretless]

If the donor unit doesn't have digital input capability (not many do) then there is no chance of being able to use the unit as a DAC.

However Doc has said that it DOES have a digital out, which means you can run it as a CD transport through an external DAC.

[selby]

Yeah it's a long shot but thought I'd ask, especially as someone else had.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

I will do nothing but transfer or replace the sockets of the donor unit onto the NVA case. As I have said already exactly as I did with the first generation players.

I have already said this in earlier post

All outputs.

1 USB
1 HDMI
1 Phono Digital
2 Phono analogue (L&R)

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Interesting the USB takes a dongle with music on it so it must be an input.

Anyway I will not be touching any of that apart from re power supplying it.

[Fretless]

Then it does look like there might be a way to use it as a USB DAC running from a PC - however the audio formats supported will probably be restricted to just MP3 & WMA.

(If you were to give us a hint on the donor machine, Doc, then those interested could look this up for themselves - save you answering unnecessary questions).

[NeilMcClurg68]

Doc, I am in, deposit sent via paypal. Neil

[Fretless]

Doc, I don't want to tread on anyone's toes.
Please tell me if I am out of order - but we are all guessing wildly and 'pissing in the wind' here:

The innards of your proposed player would appear to be similar to this range of models :



Playable Disc Formats: SVCD, VCD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD, DVD, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Playable File Formats: AAC, JPEG, MP3, MPEG-4, WMA, XviD, MPEG1

This type of player has an onboard 192KHz/16bit DAC and can output 96KHz/24bit digital audio.
USB input is only for input from storage devices.

As Sony are a major supplier to other brands - the donor device for the NVA could be anything, but the internals will, I guess, be fairly similar.

[Classicrock]

I'm puzzled as Sony UK does not list any disc players on their web site. In other words they appear to have abandoned all but blue ray. Those DVD players I see for sale appear to be very cheap so the quality of transport may be rather 'basic' though the D/A converters may be similar to those used in some high end players? Frankly Sony aren't the company they once were. I suspect they are close to meltdown in terms of audio and are now a camera and games player company.