There is a local listing for ead t7000 in mint condition with books,remote and original box for $45 obo. Seller lists it as unable to read,play cds. Listing includes a brand new sony khs 130a laser head which needs to be installed. At least the sellrr think that will fix the issue. I am planning to offer $20 and give it a try. I am curious what this playet is based off of. Any body have one of these? How would the picture compare to my main player mcintosh mld 7020 which is a pioneer cld 97 clone?

The EAD T7000 . . .



. . . looks kind of like a Theta Data II to me. So if it is, it's a Phillips CDV-400 under the hood. In other words, nothing special really as far as LD players go. Definitely nowhere near a CLD-97 or McIntosh MLD-7020.

Now an EAD T8000, that one's a bit better as if I recall correctly, that is a CLD-99 under the hood.

this could be a good cd player tho, dont you think? as far as i know philips cdv400 has the nice philips crown dac for audio. this unit possibly has power supply etc upgrades.

Only the CDV-488 had the Crown 16-bit DAC... Philips lower players used the same chip but ungraded so they have low level linearity errors, then Philips switched to the 1-bit bitstream design because it was cheaper. Their awful, and quickly pulled from the American market, CDV-600 used the Bitstream chip.

Those first "modded" players like the T7000 often had no changes made to them except for encasing the whole thing in a new shell and adding an AT&T Optical output for the digital signal. Sometimes they disconnected the internal DAC circuit completely. It depended on which "level" of player you bought since they were all intended to be hooked up to an outboard DAC. With later players, it was different, with companies like MSB making major modifications to the audio, video and power circuits.

It's called a "transport" which means there is no internal DAC. You'd have to output the digital signal to an outboard DAC or receiver. The RCA audio outputs would only be used for the analog tracks on an LD.

seller and I agreed on $30. I am going to use it as CD transport. I have been reading reviews on Theta Data II which should be identical to this unit. Seems like this is a good transport.

I have the T-8000 model which i reviewed online
http://youtu.be/Qsu8sJvWHsw

The T-8000 is based on the CLD-97. The last model by EAD was the theater vision model which is based on the CLD-99. Someone had one listed on a ads page for $350!. http://www.canuckaudiomart.com/details/ ... aserdisccd

The EAD T-8000 internals look more like a CLD-3080/3090/D701/D702. Not sure which it would be. From the Youtube video it is the older design before the CLD-D703

For the most part, the whole "LaserDisc transport" thing was a giant rip off that often used the very cheapest players with minimal to no modifications other than a heavy wrap around shell to try and disguise the cheap player inside. As if CD playback was like an LP and needed massive vibrational shielding, etc...

BTW, anyone know what player and mod's were used in the Theta Voyager CD/LD/DVD player-transport? The mod's MSB did to my DVL-700 really improved its picture quality.

The better modifications done by Theta, MSB, ETC. actually installed a second power supply dedicated to the Digital Audio section. Then they added their own designs for the audio digital outputs. I have seen MSB do some Video mods such as fixing the Panasonic LX-900U Video AGC but the other companies just focus on the Audio digital outputs with no Video improvements except for having the second power supply removing the digital clocking noise out of the video power supply. They do normally increase the weight of the players to lower vibration which can affect digital jitter. High end companies liked the LD players as they have a much larger spindle motor and with the extra weight they can be much more stable concerning rotation speed which again helps reduce digital jitter.

I understand this player is not anything special but for $30 I cant complain much. It will beat that $30 dynex cd player at bestbuy for cd playback for sure. I also remember goldmund used a $100 pioneer dvd player as a base for their earlier cd transports. Big heavy box with electronics upgrade added another $7900 to the price tag. Most reviewers loved it too. Nowadays theta admits on its webpage they use oppo 83. Placebo effect is nice thing

Theta voyager is a combo unit its gotto be a pioneer dvl. I have read some claim it has pioneer components in it and some say sony. Beside its beatiful to look at the picture is not on par with pioneer elites. I had to chose between voyager and mcintosh when i was buying my player 3 or 4 years ago.

Yeah, I knew it was based on a DVL model, but which one? Knowing Theta, not an Elite model.