pioneer pd-s505

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    T-bone Sanchez

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    Can anybody tell me if this has a coax out? Only asking coz a friend of mine needs a half-decent transport for very reasonable money and this fits the bill if its got a digital coax output (for a DAC).

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    T-bone Sanchez, Sep 22, 2005
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    No problem........its dead easy to fit .......just need to id the dac chip or lift it from the optical out [before it gets to it. You do some wonderful mods to it like asdding a pulse transformer and stuff. I've several schematics that cover the stuff. This was one of my first mods to add a digital out to a mini disc player that had only an optical....and bloody hell it worked !
     
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    my pds505 precision had a coaxial digital out.
     
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    all standard pioneer CD players in my memory had coax out.. the PDS-703 did.. and that was a really great cd player. i loved the stable platter mechanism... seriously well put together players
     
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    I miss my PDS-703 - I wish I'd kept it now and mated a Rega Io to it, rather than buying the Planet (and trading the Pioneer!)
     
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    those ol pioneers were great players.. and even better transports... they were as good as many a high end transport.... ive seen 703's on the end of some crazy DAC's
     
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    Not that long ago I was eBay hunting a Pioneer stable platter, and there are several models with optical rather than electrical digital out. I think the PDS-505 doesn't have any digital outs at all, or at least I think I remember an eBay seller telling me that, although as Rory says the Precision version has an electrical out.
     
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    It seems some dont and some do. Some 505's do but the 507 doesnt theres little info on the www. It might have to wait anyway the friend/gf (well sort of) relationship seems to have run its course (for me anyway) so not my problem anymore. It was to go with the MF X-80 I got her a few weeks ago.
     
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    I think all of them have an optical digital output, and some have an electrical coax. My PD-S904 does...
     
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    I had a PDS703, second the great transport and build, it's still going strong, must be 10 years old. Average sound without a dac though.
     
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    Not all have optical out I'm afraid. The PDS505 Precision doesn't for instance.
     
    MartinC, Oct 3, 2005
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