Yamaha CD-S2000 Review (CD/SACD Player)

[thewas]

Then you have to find and fiddle with the remote instead of just putting on the track you want to hear or program more songs in the order you want to hear them. It's like backwards evolution that they abandoned it to save a few pennies even on expensive players. Sucks.

It seems our preferences are different there, I find pressing buttons on the remote sitting on my couch much more relaxing than on the device itself.

 

[NTTY]

I must admit that if I listen to a CD, I play it from A to Z, else I go online.

 

[Vintage02]

I must admit that if I listen to a CD, I play it from A to Z, else I go online.

Hi Florent,

I do the same ... All my remote controls are in a box.

 

[tacoseer]

Thanks for the review, I bought one at 2007 and it still working for me perfectly, glad to learn the measurement.

 

[NTTY]

Excellent review! From the type of tiles where the first pic is taken (and from the narrative of the watchmaker) you must be located in the Swiss Confederation!

Thank you and sorry I forgot to reply. Yes I am

 

[Herbert]

I had it back then for a day. Beautiful design, but i did not like the loud mech and afair, the buttons were plastic and not aluminum, unlike the Accuphase pictured in the photo with open tray. The Accuphase has not been reviewed yet, correct?

 

[SigmaR1]

From the end of the 1990s, Sony put an alternative to a front panel numerical keypad to access tracks : what it calls the "AMS" rotary button. You rotate the button clock-wise or counter-clock wise to sequentially navigate through the CD (or SA-CD) tracks and once you get the track you want, you push the button to launch the player.

This interface is fast and easy to use. At least, it is handy to navigate through NTTY's test CD tracks, especially when CD texts describing the track contents have been programmed and are being showed on the display of the player.

In the 90's, Sony removed the panel numerical keypad from the very top players only (ie 5 and 7 series). My guess is that It was not to save pennies (the key pad was indeed incorporated to less expensive players), but to propose a front panel with an aesthetic that was more refined and less technical. The rotary AMS knob was the perfect solution for reconciling aesthetics with ergonomics.

 

[DSJR]

I have a CDP-S1 player in the second rig and knew the AMS? knob could rapidly cycle tracks but you know, I never knew that it had a push function so that you could rotate to select the track and then push to play it

 

[Valentino]

Thanks for this!

I bought a beautiful silver CD-S2100 (I don’t know what they changed apart from the front panel silk screen) with piano black side panels this May to play a good meter of inherited classical SACDs.
Its output feeds the XLR input of a MiniDSP Adept. Yup, the SACD player is my second analog source. The first is a 1973 Thorens TD 125 Mk. II.

 

[NTTY]

I had it back then for a day. Beautiful design, but i did not like the loud mech and afair, the buttons were plastic and not aluminum, unlike the Accuphase pictured in the photo with open tray. The Accuphase has not been reviewed yet, correct?

No I did not not review this early Accuphase CD player yet. It will come, one day

 

[Stoutblock]

Thanks for this!

I bought a beautiful silver CD-S2100 (I don’t know what they changed apart from the front panel silk screen) with piano black side panels this May to play a good meter of inherited classical SACDs.
Its output feeds the XLR input of a MiniDSP Adept. Yup, the SACD player is my second analog source. The first is a 1973 Thorens TD 125 Mk. II.

The CD-S2000 did not have a digital input (coax) while the CD-S2100 does.

 

[NTTY]

The CD-S2000 did not have a digital output (coax) while the CD-S2100 does.

It does, second picture of the of the first post.
But the CD-S2100 offered digitial inputs, including USB, which is a significant added value.

And the CD-S2100 uses a higher resolution ESS ES9016S. It would be interesting to measure potential improvements.

 

[Stoutblock]

It does, second picture of the of the first post.
But the CD-S2100 offered digitial inputs, including USB, which is a significant added value.

And the CD-S2100 uses a higher resolution ESS ES9016S. It would be interesting to measure potential improvements.

Correct, I should have said the CD-S2100 has a digital input so you can use its internal DAC.

 

[The Dunster]

Fabulous review that confirms how wrong those British mags were about this wonderful disc spinner. . I've bought my Yamaha CD-s2000 in 2009 new for $US1300 and it has been playing CD's and SACD's pretty much every day since.
I have mine matched up with a Yamaha A-S3200 Integrated amp using the line out/in.
The later players had higher specs - but they also appear to have had more issues with reading discs and so on which the CD-S2000 doesn't.

 

[Raiju]

Drive makes too much noise for low level listening, can hear it constantly.

 

[NTTY]

More than swapping two OPamps, I must admit.

 

[EJ3]

Hi Florent,

I do the same ... All my remote controls are in a box.

With 5 discs in the carousel of my Sony CDR-W500, sometimes (instead of playing staight through) I just hit Random (or whatever it is called) & let it jumble it's way through all the tracks. Rarely do I ever use the remote, however. And, I can make a CD of tracks that I want on one CD whenever I want (usually to gift to someone). Getting CD's to record onto is getting more difficult, however.

 

[multichannel_guy]

I have the CD-S2100, worth its weight in gold.

 

[EJ3]

I have the CD-S2100, worth its weight in gold.

SACD: my oPPo 205 UDP has it but I also want it in something else, so...

 

[multichannel_guy]

SACD: my oPPo 205 UDP has it but I also want it in something else, so...

It's not just sacds, regular cds sound awesome with it.