got my deh-p880prs

[aadadams 10+ year member]

The rattles have nothing to do with it actually. For several years I rode a motorcycle and after Katrina riding in Baton Rouge was waaaaay too unsafe so I traded it in for a used SUV. Since then I have been trying to make it my own. The idea of the w200/h701 excites me. I thought about the CDA-9857/H701 but the move is to close to being a parallel one for my use, so that idea has been abandoned. Historically, I never stand pat with anything. I am very happy with the P880PRS, but there is always room for improvement, in my minds eye anyway. Which reminds me of why I went with Pioneer in the first place. A good friend of mine swears by Alpine, so in order to show him there were equitable/better HUs than his 9815 I went on a crusade. I like the Z1 and played with it for a few hours, but man that thing is EXPENSIVE compared to the w200.

 

[aadadams 10+ year member]

No i read the reason he was contiplating it was for the Alpine Multimedia Manager, Model PXAH701 set up .And as for the rattles get some sound deadner its my next move when i get some more cash .

I read a post about that as well. A guy put quite a bit of time and money into that with no benefit. I will look into it though.

 

[crazymack 10+ year member]

Found this

Burr-Brown claims that the device, which sells for less than $5 apiece in quantities of 1000, accepts 16- to 24-bit input data and can be used with a variety of audio clocks. It processes up to 24 bits internally and has single-ended analog outputs, "thus reducing the amount of external components required in the audio system."

 

[bumpin_blazer 5,000+ posts]

it's a 1 bit d/a converter but 24 bit burr brown dac's. it's weird the way they word it but some use like 16 bit 24 bit BB dac's like the clarion drz and some others.

 

[alann 10+ year member]

So what does this exactly mean? Is the 880PRS 24bit DAC same as say.....Clarions DXZ865MP or Eclipse CD7000?

 

[aadadams 10+ year member]

I think the CD7000 uses a Wolfson 24 bit, which is suppossed better quality.

 

[jodynich]

I put mine in today, for some reason the backlight inverts itself by itself every once in a while... is this normal?

 

[aadadams 10+ year member]

You have to turn it off. Turn off the HU and press and hold the right knob until the unit turns on. Look for "reverse mode" by turning the right knob. Set the reverse mode to off by pressing the knob. BTW RTFM J/K

 

[6spdcoupe 5,000+ posts]

I think the CD7000 uses a Wolfson 24 bit, which is suppossed better quality.

Actually they use a Fujitsu. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[zachzchw 5,000+ posts]

I put mine in today, for some reason the backlight inverts itself by itself every once in a while... is this normal?

Its to prevent burn in of the screen.

 

[NJAV1 10+ year member]

I put mine in today, for some reason the backlight inverts itself by itself every once in a while... is this normal?

I disabled this on my 740...it was annoying as all hell..didn't do well with the dials..LOL

Dave

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

it's a 1 bit d/a converter but 24 bit burr brown dac's. it's weird the way they word it but some use like 16 bit 24 bit BB dac's like the clarion drz and some others.

There is NOTHING 1bit about the d/a converter in the 880prs. Pioneer's website is misleading but it has 24 bit burr-brown d/a converter.

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/product/detail/0,,2076_4041_291159496_tab=B,00.html?compName=PNA_ProductDetailComponent

If you look at this web page you'll see where it says 1-bit D/A converter in the left column it SHOULD read just "d/a converter" in that column.

In fact, the 780, 880 and 980 ALL have 24bit burr -browns. And the 680 has a 16bit.

 

[car1990 10+ year member]

If you read P.86 of the P880RS owner manual, it read: "Sampling Frequency: 44.1Khz, Number of quantization bit: 16 Linear". It's NOT 24 Bit, it's 16 Bit.

 

[aadadams 10+ year member]

Apples and oranges. You likely have a 32 bit computer at home that runs 16 and 8 bit programs. The 24 bit Burr Brown DAC is being used to perform the task you referenced.

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

If you read P.86 of the P880RS owner manual, it read: "Sampling Frequency: 44.1Khz, Number of quantization bit: 16 Linear". It's NOT 24 Bit, it's 16 Bit.

It says the same thing in the P9 owner's manual. Are you going to say the P9 doesn't have 24bit either?? 44.1khz sampling freq and 16 bits is the red book CD standard and they're saying that is the supported format by the player. It takes the 16bit data from the disc and coverts it to 24bit and then converts it to analog. There are alot of 24 bit discs out these days which the converter wouldn't have to convert it to 24 since its already there.