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But even there I missed a satisfying sense of the acoustical environment in which that piano was located. There were times when I really loved this player's solidity in reproducing the dynamics of a piano. I just wish there were more air and sparkle, more life. The sound is unfatiguing, quite lovely at times, and yet it can become uninvolving. The DX-G10 strikes me as having the creamy-textured smoothness I have come to associate with Onkyo products. Instruments are precisely localized, and, unlike the Yamaha, emerge from a background of silence. This player can really open up and let it rip on passages like the final movement of the Manfred. Sonically, this player—which has true 18-bit DACs with 8x oversampling—is most impressive. What a blessing to those of us who often listen in the dark. Welcome features include a large knob for variable forward and reverse—why didn't someone else think of that? The Onkyo DX-G10 has another terrific feature: you can dim or turn off the display with a push of a button on the remote. Elegant, uncluttered design—Yamaha could certainly take some lessons. It is by far the biggest, heaviest CD player I have had in my system. The Onkyo DX-G10 weighs 60 pounds! And lists for $2500. "I thought it was a Threshold or a Krell or something." "This is a CD player?" asked my UPS delivery man. I felt the rings were rolling off the exquisite highs (footnote 2). Incidentally, I preferred the Yamaha with my discs naked—no rings. So maybe it is a boon rather than a bane. And the volume control, conveniently adjustable from the remote control, is said to operate in the digital domain—a benefit, says Yamaha, of all this shifting bit business. The CDX1110 tracked through track 35 of Disc 2 of the Pierre Verany test set with nary a glitch, hiccup, or warble.Īnd the CDX1110 has one unusual feature I must mention: the analog outputs are not fixed, they are variable. Tracking, if you are keeping track, is excellent. It might even be the best I have heard to date at any price. Meanwhile, this does not take away from what Yamaha has achieved right now. Noise reduction is probably one reason why I so passionately hate cassettes—it takes away from the certainty and the solidity of the music.Īll this may be moot, of course, if Yamaha goes to true 18-bit DACs in their next generation of players. It especially makes me nervous when Yamaha talks about the bit-shifting scheme operating like a dynamic noise reducer. But I did find this sense of something "going on," and I can't help but wonder whether or not it has something to do with bit-shifting. Paul wasn't talking about the Yamaha, and it would be unfair to single out this excellent machine for special criticism when the same comment might be made about many, if not most, other CD players.