Integrad DPS 10.5 DVD Player Review

From the September issue of AVRev.com...

Integra DPS-10.5

With the advent of high-quality universal players, the need for dedicated
CD, SACD, DVD-Audio and DVD players is a thing of the past. Equipment racks
around the world gave a sigh of relief and those people out there who were
fretting over the DVD-Audio/SACD format war could rest easy, knowing they
can have both formats at their fingertips in one single player. Integra has
a very nice lineup of universal players for all budgets, with the crowning
jewel in their roster being the $2,500 DPS-10.5 THX Ultra certified
universal player.

Anyone who scoffs at the price of this universal player compared to the
lower-priced players they see advertised by electronics megastores in the
Sunday newspapers need to hold this it to see that it¹s in a whole different
stratosphere of quality. One look at the front panel of the DPS-10.5 tells
you that you are dealing with some serious playback hardware. Embossed
DVD-Audio and SACD logos sit side by side underneath the disc tray. Along
the bottom left side of the player are white logos from DTS, Dolby Digital,
HDMI, OPlus FlexScaling, VLSC (Vector Linear Shaping Circuitry) and THX
Ultra certification. The solid aluminum frame and brass feet of the
DPS-10.5, along with its internal high current toroidal transformer and
generous power supply, give the player a hefty weight of 26.7 pounds and
help isolate it from vibrations. The DPS-10.5 features Wolfson 192
kHz/24-Bit Audio DACs and separate internal power supplies for audio and
video elements. Silicon Image Deinterlacing takes interlaced signals and
converts them to progressive for flicker-free images, corrects errors on the
DVD, and reduces scan lines and motion-interlacing artifacts. A system
Integra calls ³Dual Direct Digital² is incorporated in the player, with
high-purity heavy-gauge shielded internal cables that can output DTS, PCM
and Dolby Digital, while simultaneously sending out a down-mixed stereo PCM
version to another location, perfect for multi-zone set-ups.

Besides the obvious playback formats that you¹d expect from a quality
universal player, the DPS-10.5 can play back MPEG1 Audio Layer 3 format 44.1
or 48 kHz fixed-bit rate MP3 files from a disc. It can also read a disc full
of JPEGs, so if you are jonesing to show off pictures from your last
vacation to your friends and family on the big-screen TV, you can show any
..jpg or .jpeg file as long as it is less than five MB in size. Video CD and
DVD-VR are also supported formats on the DPS-10.5.

Read the review at http://www.audiorevolution.com/equip/integradps105/

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