Now it sounds great - I can hear tri-angles and bells - and other instruments as if suspended in space! The CD and CDP source are important - but I cannot discount my 6.5 Wpc tube amp (MP-301 MK3) or my Heresys as being at least partially causal. It sounded good, despite the dust-static (No, i don't miss vinyl!). My later purchase of an eight CD set (DG) of von Karajan conducting The Berliner Philharmoniker in Tchaikovsky - particularly, the 1812 Overture, which I had in vinyl - and played almost four decades ago on my AR turntable and amp driving a pair of Advent Large speakers. Mine sound great, including playing my thirty year old copies of Dire Straits' 'Brothers in Arms', Paul Simon's 'Graceland', and Herbie Mann's 'Memphis Underground', all easily identified by the inertial rings I adhered to their label-side outer circumference. The Onkyo has a serviceable headphone amp, too - and it weighs 4 lb more than the 7.7 lb, and < 1/2' shorter, otherwise similar sized Yamaha CD-S300BL, while costing half as much here in the states Amazon Prime - $145 vs $299. My two earlier AVRs were Yamahas - my last one is an Onkyo, which I am totally satisfied with - thus the C-7030 (and TX-8020) purchases, which I am also quite satisfied with, as well. 'Non expensive CD player' would seem to exclude most 'universal' players - even used 103's.ДЄs to Yamaha shiney disc players, we've had two - a DVD player that would over rev CDs sending them skidding (scuffing) inside and my wife's CD changer, a jam-o-matic. Went tonight to listen the CD-S300 amazing sound, really really good, but the store manager offer me for the same price a BD-A1060 Yamaha universal player Aventage serie? sound very good to and has a bypass so all electronic to video is turn off and it plays in cd mode? anyone knows this universal player, any comment? The CD-S300 is much slower to load and respond to commands than many older, full-feature players. I find that my new Yamaha CD-S300 has great sound and tremendous imaging for the price (Massively discounted to $275 Canadian or $223 USD). It also has a tiny minimalist display and only essential controls.no bells or whistles. It has no headphone jack or variable volume output (but lack of variable output can also mean a cleaner, undistorted signal path to your receiver or amp.) The CD-S300BL is much slower to load and respond to commands than many older, full-feature players.ДЇast Forward or Reverse is incredibly slow. I also use this in conjunction with the Selectable CD Direct Amp feature on the Yamaha Receiver for the simplest, purest signal path.ДЄnd lastly, it will play files from a USB Thumbdrive or USBВ type devices.

It has an interesting feature called: Selectable Pure Direct Output (Analog Only) for a cleaner signal to your receiver. It conveniently runs with the same remote from my Yamaha R-S700 Receiver. The Yamaha seemsВ better as well for solid and tight bass reproduction. I'm hearing more ambient sound from the studio and other small details in the recordings than even my expensive, but much olderВ Onkyo Integra DX-708 is capable of.

I find that my new Yamaha CD-S300BL has great sound and tremendous imaging for the price (Massively discounted to $275 Canadian or $223 USD). Yamaha CD-S300BL, seems good with classical, anyone had a comment?

Yamaha s-300 cd vs onkyo cd player