COOPA PLAYER - FIRST IMPRESSION
Today I got my first media player from Ebay and the player is impressive to look at. The build quality is nice.
I am yet to buy a LCD TV and DAC. So it is pretty basic test with the analogue output of the player.
Video:
I played some SD and HD on my CRT TV. At first the quality wasn't decent at all. There was hardly any color and the picture looked dull. After some setting in TV picture and player's video setting things got into groove. The PQ was decent but there is hardly any difference in SD and HD (that very well may be because of my old CRT TV which can't go beyond a point in terms of PQ).
Audio
Then, I played some FLAC and MP3 hooking it to my Sonodyne SIA using analogue output. I didn't expect and it didn't deliver any quality sound. The output is low in volume and the sound is muddy. No sound stage at all, what so ever. The sound was in between my two speakers. The mids were decent though, not harsh to ears. In one word, it can play audio files, don't expect anything more than that.
Finger Crossed
Let me buy a LCD TV. I will check the PQ on it. I hope it will not disappoint me via HDMI. A LCD/LED/Plasma is due for a long time now and somehow it is getting delayed.
Good News
The good news is that the both o/p HDMI and SPDIF has options to output PCM or RAW. So taking the raw output and feeding into a decent DAC will do the job quite well, I think.
