#Onkyo cd player speakers drivers#

I then looked at several other CD players with lab measurements rated as excellent by and these audiophile CD players cost $1500 to $3000 and more.

The review results, from the lab measurements that rated the DX-7555 as excellent, impressed me the most. After many hours of online research of reading reviews and checking prices for the best deal, I decided to buy the DX-7555. My old Denon DRM-370 carousal HDCD player from 2001 with a Micropacific Burr-Brown DAC finally refused to recognize any CDs. I have been listening to my Onkyo DX-7555 for 9 days.

Quite frankly, it also raises serious questions regarding the multi thousand price tags of so many 'hi-end' products. 'Naturally' the Onkyo isn't absolutely perfect (what is?) but it comes so satisfyingly close that I am now simply listening to the music and, only sometimes when rediscovering new insights on familiar recordings, think about or become aware of the quality of the equipment.įinally, if you still have a CD collection and don't want to spend silly money to hear it satisfactorily, all I can say is, if you're lucky enough to still come across one, grab it! This CD player (and amp) is extraordinary value for money - even at it's 'original' price - with excellent, cost effective application of technology and 'sound' engineering. Unfortunately even some outrageously priced 'hi-end' kit failed to sound accurate to that recorded sound - let alone natural. I mention the speakers as, since the late 60s, I have aspired to do justice to all those groups, orchestras, musicians and artists who have given me so much pleasure, but could never afford the 'hi-end' kit that sometimes came close to naturally reproducing what my ears expected or had heard live! For many years, the wonderful Onkyo A9070 amp and reasonably priced turntables and cartridges served me well and then came CD.īut since my Philips 104b CD player, the struggle has mostly been finding a front end source I could afford that could reproduce the potential that digitally recorded sound offered.

#Onkyo cd player speakers drivers#

b) A pair of hybrid speakers I built using 4 NXT panels (2 per channel with a dedicated 10' sub and super tweeter top end bottom) and last but not least c) my old pair of 'Parthenons', so called as I have used solid marble slabs for the sides, each recently updated with 2 12' Peerless bass drivers to an Onkyo mid-range horn driver (from 1974!) and super tweeter, capable of probably the most 'real' sound I've heard - regardless of money! Best of all, each pair has cost me only a few hundred dollars to make, as the Dynaudios were picked up very cheaply 2nd hand and also modified by me. These are a) A pair of modified Dynaudio Contour 1.3 MKIIs. Straight off, the sound quality of the 7555 is simply and NATURALLY superb! I am using the matching (in every way) 9755 amp and have the use of three pairs of speakers, which are capable of doing this Onkyo set up justice. Hi from England - and Greece! I recently bought one of these CD players new for £199! and felt compelled to add my experience so far.