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Clare Newsome:

JohnNewman:

Clare Newsome:

And in answer to the OP - you'll notice a step-up to better machines such as the Denon DVD-2500BT, but the Panasonic '80 is by no means a poor partner for the '905. I'm still waiting to invest in a premium Blu-ray player (waiting for a next-gen Profile 2.0 affair at a great price), and the Panasonic '55 (last year's equivalent of the '80) is proving a fine stop-gap with my Yamaha 'Z7!

Thanks Clare, that is actually very useful

Does the Panasonic match the sound quality of the Pioneer 51FD?

Many Thanks

I haven't heard the '51 against the '80; it sonically pips the '55, though the Panasonic loads discs in about double the time!

Can't wait  to hear the new Pioneers vs the Panasonics vs the Denons vs the Sonys... Finally hope we'll get a wide choice of do-everything Profile 2.0 players with the best-yet pictures and audio for decent money.

Clare Newsome:

It's not only the HDMI circuitry that's different in the '80 over the '60: slightly better-quality audio components/connections all-round.

And here's the picture to prove it:

Andy Clough:

Clare Newsome:

It's not only the HDMI circuitry that's different in the '80 over the '60: slightly better-quality audio components/connections all-round.

And here's the picture to prove it:

 

It's difficult to make out what some of those bits are but I can make out the analogue audio phono's, a DAC and some capacitors (?) and possibly a transformer (?) which again I assume are analogue related.  Can you confirm which of those is related to producing better bitstream/LPCM digital audio data over HDMI rather than employed in the conversion to analogue and output via the analogue phono's ?

Dasp