What is the Denon/Exemplar DVD-2900 universal player?
The Denon 2900 is apparently a much sought-after player for modification. At its retail price of approximately $1K, it represents great value but many folks see more potential in it than the folks at Denon have extracted. I can think of at least a handful of well-known specialty shops that offer modifications for it and do so at various levels and stages. Only briefly, I have heard two of these before, one of which has been extensively reviewed by our own Chip Stern. I was not personally taken by what I’d heard: Good but not delicious is how I would describe those versions. Given the hype that preceded them, I would say that I was disappointed. Had John’s unit not been specifically recommended by others who own and know what really first-rate digital playback sounds like, the truth is I wouldn’t have been interested in Exemplar’s version either. Neither the stock player nor the modified forms which I’d heard before would have encouraged me to expect anything more from the Exemplar vers
