Plays everything you throw at it with great sound. Great price

High Crossover Slow changer

The Yamaha C750 is a universal DVD player. I bought it mainly for listening to SACDs, DVDAs, and the occasional CD. The crossover is set a bit high for audiophiles (120Hz) with small speakers. I have small speakers, but the sound is still terrific with the high crossover. Outlaw makes a product that will manually adjust the crossover for audiophiles. I have listened to classical, rock, and jazz and the sound is unbelievable. I do not use this product to play movies, so I will let others discuss the picture quality.

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cd sound format coverage universal changer for the price

a few quirks

price in canadian dollars. great player. should be connected with both 6-channel out (sacd + dvd-a multichannel) AND mixed 2-channel (for all stereo listening) - the pro-logic II doesn't affect the mixed stereo out. if wanted to take the pl II off, a button on remote does it (no need to go to on-screen menu). upsampling does revert to off after a disk, but i've noticed no sound difference with it on so... great cd sound - great format coverage - above average video - great price for universal changer (of which there are few) great way to check out hi-rez audio. note - load time between disks is between 10 and 18 seconds so random play between disks is not a strength.

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Sounds pretty good,low price

2ch cd,upsample

Well...it could have been a real deal,but.If you put a cd in it auto goes to prologic,you must turn on tv go to program,select 2ch then when it stops it goes back to prologic.If you engage upsample it plays disc then when disc is done it auto goes to upsample off,you must engage for every disc.

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Correction on previous review for speaker distance calibration. The speed of sound at 20°C (68°F) is 344 m/sec (1,129 ft/sec). Therefore you can assume 1.129 feet per millisecond or 0.885 milliseconds per foot. Determine how far you are from your center speaker and main front speakers. Subtract one from the other and multiply the difference by 0.885. The answer is the milliseconds you can feed into the setup menu. Do the same for your side surround speakers.

Good overall desing with no logical errors.

Small disc light indicator switches are not very bright but sufficient.

At first look you would not believe the Yamaha DVD-C750 multi-disc player is well designed with good operating logic. There are no abundance of bells, lights and whistles on the player or remote control. The unit is rather thin at about 2.5 inches. Looks are deceiving. I like a random or shuffle play multidisk player. This 5 disk player does random play with the touch of one remote control button. Press the remote button again and it does a random play on all discs. The random function is totally functional. It will play all songs on all CDs at random and it will not play the same song twice. When all songs are played on all CDs the unit will stop. This is the only unit on the market I am aware of that functions properly in random mode. The unit has a good repeat function if you need it. It also has the A-B function where you repeat a specific area. It will scan. The lights on the front of the unit are yellow or green to show which disc is playing. You wonder why they did not provide a way to select individual discs from the player until you realize the lights are also push button switches that will select the disc you want. I wish the lighted switches were a little larger or brighter. The changer is not fast between discs but it is reasonable. The Yamaha control logic is slightly unique to Yamaha but as good as anything I’ve seen. The on-screen menus are not overly graphic but they get the job done. The “On Screen” display is great for letting you know the status of pertinent data while seeing the movie at the same time. Some important items can be changed in real time. I’m impressed. The sampling rates for video and audio as well as other pertinent technical specification are equal to or above the industry standards. There are no weak areas. The 5 disc tray will not rotate while it is in the open position but it extends far enough to install or remove all 5 discs; or 4 if one is still playing. The remote control will not open the carousel from the comforts of your recliner but of course there is also no button that will remove the disc and install another. Now why did Yamaha use milliseconds instead of feet or meters for speaker calculation? I tried to watch the movement of the speaker and time how long it took for the sound wave to reach my ear but I’m getting too slow in my old age. So --- The speed of sound at 20°C (68°F) is 344 m/sec (1,129 ft/sec). Therefore you can assume 1.29 feet per millisecond or 0.775 milliseconds per foot. Determine how far you are from your center speaker and main front speakers. Subtract one from the other and multiply the difference by 0.775. The answer is the milliseconds you can feed into the setup menu. Do the same for your side surround speakers? I think we are all assuming the center speaker is closer to us than the front speakers and that the side speakers are closer to us than the front speakers. Guess what! This thing plays MP3 files on a DVD writable. I loaded over 120 CDs to my computer using Windows Media Player using the default compression ratio and then copied all 120 CDs to 1 DVD+RW. I forgot to set Windows to MP3 and copied all files in WMA format. The DVD-C750 plays WMA files just fine. My amplifier can do a Dolby surround simulation and it sounds good. WMA or MP3 quality is not DTS, SACD or DVD-Audio but for pumping music around the house it is great. You can visually select any song in any folder in a tree structure but the on-screen display will not follow the folder information on-screen. The setup menu will allow folder information or omit it. You have some degree of random play here but you need to put some emphasis in the way you layout your folders. This feature reduces the need for a 400 disc carousel since the player will hold about 600 CDs of information in MP3 format. If you use the new MP3 compression method by Windows it will hold about 1200 stereo CDs of MP3 information. The DVD-C750 has everything. I am a perfectionist and find no fault that bothers me. In my honest opinion it is the most complete player on the market at the time of this review. (November 6, 2004) The salesman at Ultimate Electronics in Austin Texas has also selected this unit as his favorite. I have thoroughly checked out many popular multi-disc players costing up to $500 and this is the only one I will accept in my home theater system. Yamaha puts their manuals on-line but the DVD-C750 was not posted at the time of this writing. It plays Super Audio CD(SA-CD), DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, Video CD, SuperVideo CD, Audio CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD-R and DVD+RW. It plays MP3, JPEG and I can play Windows WMA files. The outputs are component video, 6 channel discrete, mixed 2 channel, digital out optical and coaxial.

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