Yamaha NP-S2000

vollertam

Today I had an audition session for the NP-S2000 in TST Yamaha demo centre.
http://jp.yamaha.com/products/au ... lver__j/?mode=model

Sorry for the photo quality!



Setup:
CD-S2000 >> XLR & RCA >> A-S2000 >> JAMO C803 SPK
NP-S2000 >> XLR >> A-S2000 >> JAMO C803 SPK

The NP-S2000 can link up with Windows Media Player, also it is able to display chinese ID tag of each song/folder. The internet radio is easy to use and able to access the worldwide station, thats impressive! For Hong Kong region, it can access RTHK, HKReporter..etc

I ripped the CD on the local computer in .WAV file, then compare with the same CD on CD-S2000.

I found the NP is general more silence background, but the dynamic range of CD-S2000 is noticeable better.

Price:HK$  !#*))

HEIHEI

不過好似貴左D

Nan7yo

回復 1# vollertam


    Thanks for sharing, go to try try sin~

vollertam

Since I do not have real experience in using CAS, therefore I am not sure if using MS Media player over Ethernet would make the sound quality different?! Correct me if I was wrong.

As far as I know, audio file over ethernet should be indepentant to the computer, thus it would not suffer the problems as using USB (voice quality on Asyn USB and various software player). I believe the ethernet DAC has its edge over USB DAC in near future.

The weakest link of this demo system is, the interconnect is not optimised! Thus, there should be room for improvement on the system. As everything kept constant, the CD-S2000 is slightly better on the dynamic range under the A/B test. I agreed that the price is too high, although the NP-S2000 has much similarity, meaning the electronics component, compare with the CD-S2000. IF I am looking for a user friendly music server, I might be more interset on the Marantz NA7004 for  ~HK$6K, such that I have more versatility in terms of no. of connections. Its interseting that the FM/AM radio is included in the Euro Region version, but not in Asia and US region version.

As I couldn't find an review of this Marantz NA7004, any Ching has audition experience of this NP for sharing??

MSZ

部NP真係奇貴. 雖然用料真係好足...不過我呢個山葉迷自問玩唔起.

hkslash

呢部好野黎,

vollertam

for this price, you can get a better dac / cdp...too expensive

dai_cast

以此價位，覺得有點兒貴。特別是Made in Malaysia，感覺十分差。
當然，個人亦好認同Network DAC 將會是明日之星。

babuwa

Really not cheap.....

benmak

貴過Marantz部Network player一倍喎.... 再俾多一倍, 可以買Linn了....