Classe SSP 800 Surround Proceessor
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Ships from | New York, NY, 10025 |
Ships to | United States |
Package dimensions | 18.0" × 18.0" × 10.0" (40.0 lbs.) |
Shipping carrier | FedEx |
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Original accessories | Remote Control, Box, Manual |
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This well cared for unit, in a smoke free home, recently had a new HDMI 1.4 board installed, along with the latest software (both late last fall). The unit has no marks or blemished.
Sound, both for two and multi-channel (SACD) music as well as for cable signals and movies is quite remarkable. See the reviews.
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A sample of review from Robert Harley in The Absolute Sound follows:
When playing multichannel music and
film sources, a controller’s DACs, preamplifier stage, and
surround-decoding all come together to determine the unit’s overall
sound quality. In this regard, the SSP-800 is, by a significant margin,
the best-sounding controller I’ve heard. The SSP-800’s smooth and
grainless reproduction of timbre, coupled with its lack of glare,
created an immersive listening experience that didn’t induce fatigue.
Many controllers overlay the presentation with a steely hardness that
doesn’t encourage high playback levels, is uninvolving, and quickly
becomes tiresome. I’ve lived with the SSP-800 for many months and
listened to quite a number of film soundtracks and musical performances,
often at high playback level for extended periods, with no sense of
fatigue. I also never thought that the SSP-800 was limiting the
performance of my reference system; in fact, it was wonderful to have a
controller that fully revealed the rest of the system’s capabilities.
Another testament to the SSP-800’s
sound quality is its apparent ability to “disappear” in the signal path
and reveal differences between recordings, particularly those with
high-resolution soundtracks such as the Blu-ray Legends of Jazz Showcase.
Although recorded in the same studio, each performance by a different
group has its own sonic flavor—a flavor that wasn’t homogenized by the
SSP-800. It was on these high-res sources where the SSP-800 really
revealed its prowess, with excellent dynamic contrasts, no glare, deep
bass extension, and a resolution of fine detail that consistently
engaged me.
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