P880PRS vs. Nakamichi CD-500

[farshad 10+ year member]

I have had a Nak cd35z, cd45z and a cd400. Also a Pioneer 860, 880, Alpine 9835, Eclipse 8454, 8053. I feel that with everything set to flat the naks were warmer sounding, not colored. The others were a little more harsh on the top end, not bad at all. The naks are limited without all the processing. The others with processing I could always get to sound great. One of my favorite systems was a Nak cd35z, nak analog crossover with a pair of Focal 165k's. The only problem I had was with the tweeters, I couldnt tame them with the nak. I would like to go back and try a Nak or Denon deck with all analog crossovers and EQ's.

what's your thought between the 880 and cd400? do u prefer the 880 with all of the functions or cd400?

what is the analog crossovers and eq's?

 

[AAAAAAA 10+ year member]

what's your thought between the 880 and cd400? do u prefer the 880 with all of the functions or cd400? what is the analog crossovers and eq's?

Analog is when the signal is processed after the conversion from your deck to analogue from digital(Between your receiver and your amplifiers).

The 880 uses digital processing since it's unboard xovers and EQ's transform the signal before the DAC (Digital to Analogue Converter)(Inside the receiver).

 

[adam71 5,000+ posts]

Excellent post.
My tastes would prefer the Nakamichi. I could easily see, however, how someone would prefer the processing power built into the Pioneer. My preference is still for minimal processing, be it in home or in car.

Having processing power at your disposal doesn't mean you have to use all of it. The 880 doesn't have a processed sound just because it has alot of processing power. Like I said before the interior of a vehicle is an acoustical nightmare and sometimes (not all) it takes some processing to tame certain frequencies to get a "natural" sound out of your system. The Nak would be a hit or miss without external processing.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[99StangGt 10+ year member]

I like the Nak but I would have to take the 880 over it just because of my car environment needs some processing because of tweeter placement and the reflections of all the plastic and glass. My tweeters are mounted high and fire across the windshield.

 

[Towncar 10+ year member]

Honestly this seems like a no brainer.. 880 all day long... Once you factor in several bands of eq for the nak, then we will be talking.

 

[applejax 10+ year member]

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