Musical Fidelity X-RAY V8 CD Players
Musical Fidelity X-RAY V8 CD Players
USER REVIEWS
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[Dec 28, 2009]
Jim P
Audio Enthusiast
This review is of the Musical Fidelity X-Ray CDP plus X-Ray power supply. The CDP looks and feels well put together. The X-Ray has analog rca's and a coaxial output. The player upsamples to 24 bit 192kz. The only real complaints/faults is the display that is VERY difficult to read and the remote needs to be aimed exactly at the player very carefully as it needs to be aimed like a first person shooter game! These are the only problems or faults I've noticed. I've had it a year with no problems minus those mentioned above. Any notes by me may be system dependant... YMMV. What my wife and I noticed within short order is the amount of detail. there is a lots of details that we never noticed before in a lot of our music cd's. The player seems to pull everything off the cd and I really think its a detail monster. In my system the sound is really rich and detailed with a lot of clean bottom end and nice highs. Voices sound pretty amazing,very rich sounding. The MF CDP seems very good sound across the frequencies range. That being said poorly recorded cd's can sound quite bad while well recorded music is wonderfully rich. Being my first good CDP I can't say if it's a high end digital setup with any type of real knowledge,ie listening to lots of high end players. Strings sound so good on this player(I play classical music for a living). The X-ray really lets you hear EVERY instrument section easily. I play viola and on my cheaper player/DVD it was hard to hear each line,especially the viola's. With this player the different orchestra sections are easily discernable. Very enjoyable to listen to. We can turn it up on the volume and the stereo doesn't "shout" at you as a friend told me. I can't say the player is perfect for reasons A B C or whatever but it makes us want to go buy WAY more Cd's. My coffe table is getting full of Cd's. The list price on this site is $2900!! I don't think that's accurate as mine listed at my audio dealer for $1500 and I think I got it cheaper than that. This CDP sound is a 5 rating BUT the remote control(which is laid out nice) is hard to aim at the player,weird but true and the display is really really bad. So I'm giving the player a 4 rating. My stereo is as follows:
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