Comments for Yamaha BD-S2900 Blu-ray Player - Benchmark at http://www.hometheaterhifi.com , comment 1 to 12 out of 12 comments http://www.hometheaterhifi.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:26:27 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/473-a-secrets-blu-ray-player-benchmark-review.html#comment-3425 Marcus you have discovered what a lot of audio-nuts like me have found. Just prefer analog. - Piero Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:12:02 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/473-a-secrets-blu-ray-player-benchmark-review.html#comment-3421 I tried both S/PDIF (coaxial and optical) vs. analog and there was a HUGE difference in sound. Not sure why but I just couldn't get over how crisp the sound was over the 5.1 analog outputs. Remember to turn off audio signal from HDMI connection though. This way, only the video stream is passing through the HDMI connection. For some reason, this improved video quality as well. Even, my wife who isn't a big audio or video buff noticed a SIGNIFICANT difference. Another thing, I also have a pre-HDMI Yamaha receiver. I bought the more current version Yamaha BD-S1065 thinking I would get better audio quality through the analog outs (since it decodes both TrueHD and Master Audio). It may be more current, but both audio and video quality were not as good. Not even close. Stick with the BD-S2900. I'm definitely happy. - Marcus Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:02:57 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/473-a-secrets-blu-ray-player-benchmark-review.html#comment-3034 if i have a legacy receiver with digital op/coax and 5.1 channel analog inputs.would i get the best sound in 5.1 through the analog or digital. i realize that all will be downcoverted to dd or dts 5.1. - al lopez Tue, 06 Apr 2010 03:58:29 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/473-a-secrets-blu-ray-player-benchmark-review.html#comment-1297 Comparing the BD-S2900 to a Samsung.... Did you ever start a Samsung BD??? The noise these machines make... And the picture... Not going to start about that... The Yam is superiour to the samsungs (1000,1200,1500) by MILES... Sony's 550 and pana's 55 also do well on picture, but as a CD player, the Yamaha kicks ANY blu-ray player at the time. Conclusion: not the most options, but with an HD receiver (with musical qualities, like Yamaha's DSP models) its a super combo! - Danny Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:16:07 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/473-a-secrets-blu-ray-player-benchmark-review.html#comment-1261 Any idea when you will have reviews on these or similiar Blu-Ray Players. You guys do an incredible job. Thanks! - Larry Siegel Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:03:10 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/473-a-secrets-blu-ray-player-benchmark-review.html#comment-1167 How much money does one have to clear on a player? Is the cost of a Silicon Optix solution really that expensive to implement? There are still great deals to be had on the Sampsung BDP 1200 so tell me again why I would invest $1200 in the new Yamaha player? There are some good things about competition I miss in this whole format launch. - westcott Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:22:29 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/473-a-secrets-blu-ray-player-benchmark-review.html#comment-1163 If you let the player decode the format than it will down convert DolbyTrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, and dts-HD into Dolby Digital or DTS Digital giving you only 5.1 channels of surround sound at 48khz sampling rate instead of 7.1 channels at 96kHz sampling rate. - AdrianW Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:21:36 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/473-a-secrets-blu-ray-player-benchmark-review.html#comment-1157 It was unclear from your review whether the unit decoded TrueHD and DTS-MA internally or not. You seemed to indicate the PCM conversion was bad in some way, but correctly decoded PCM from TrueHD and DTS-MA bitstreams is the original audio data, right? - fyzziks Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:46:20 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/473-a-secrets-blu-ray-player-benchmark-review.html#comment-1149 This player sounds like a dressed up BD30. I thought the Denon 2500 was expensive and looks like Yamaha wants a piece of that pie. - EWL5 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:07:14 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/473-a-secrets-blu-ray-player-benchmark-review.html#comment-1148 We are currently working on obtaining review samples of both the BD35 and the BD55 from Panasonic. - AdrianW Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:12:58 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/473-a-secrets-blu-ray-player-benchmark-review.html#comment-1146 Don't forget the Panasonic DMP-BD55 and Panasonic DMP-BD35, which seem to be the best bang for the $$ right now. - FiguredMaple Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:34:57 +0100 http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/473-a-secrets-blu-ray-player-benchmark-review.html#comment-1144 I can't see how Yamaha can release a Blu-ray player at this price point when the same Blu-ray video quality and possibly better DVD video quality and feature support is found in competing products from Sony, LG, or Samsung. - Josuah Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:48:55 +0100