Put a beautiful player/transport feeding whatever DAC you wish, be it a $500 or $10K DAC, and the result will improve markedly. Put a crap transport in front of whatever DAC you wish, be it a $500 or $10K DAC, and the result will suffer. Every element of the signal, from reading to conversion, is profoundly important to achieve a digital playback which has some semblance of extreme beauty. The transport is of paramount importance, as is the digital cable, as is the power cord for each (transport/DAC). You couldn't get much worse advice when it comes to Redbook playback. If I want better digital playback, I should just concentrate on getting a better dac." You have captured the essence of the viewpoint of some when you say, "So from what I'm hearing you say is that the transport doesn't matter in terms of sound, just get a good dac? Not to sound redundant, but I'm using my denon dvd 2900 as a transport and using a musical fidelity v-dacII with an upgraded pangea p-100 power supply for the dac. The reason I went on and on about this, is that it's very easy to get sucked into the features over quality mindset without realizing it.ī_limo, you will get a wide swath of responses to your inquiry. Its the equivalent of buying a 10 year old computer and plugging a 2TB hard drive in it a calling it state of the art. An ipod is smaller than a CD player and holds 50,000 songs. Why do people want MP3 players over CD players? More features - NOT better sound quality. Why do people want Blu Ray players over DVD players? Better picture quality.
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Why do kids want a PS3 over a PS 1 or 2? Better processing power. (You don't really think that person ever had a ML transport for comparison, do you?)Īt this point, you may be asking why so many people are sceptical when it comes to high end audio? For the most part its how the consumer electronics industry markets digital products. "No need for a Mark Levinson CD transport, just find a $100 cheapie with SPDIF output and only your pocketbook will know the difference." That's a guess. It's just a bitstream." Really? If that's the case you can just use 128k mp3 files instead of SACD. "Claiming that one digital source sounds different from another is bogus. "Single-box players all require their own internal DAC circuitry, and that gets expensive if you want good stuff." Ya think? Nothing like stating the obvious. Weather it be the high prices of components or the claims that things like cables can sound different, its so far removed from what they know an audio system to be, their first reaction is to deny the legitimacy of the products in question. People end up in a high end audio store for the first time, or visit a web site like this and have a very typical reaction they panic is some form. I don't mean that as an insult, but literally. That person doesnt know what they're talking about. It looks like you are responding to the post above that says nothing matters but the DAC. I'm willing to bet, though, that you would know the difference. "So from what I'm hearing you say is that the transport doesn't matter in terms of sound, just get a good dac?" I've had many others, as well, but the ones I list are my favourites. Some brands I would recommend, new or used, are: Ayre, Arcam, Wadia and Cary. (Honestly, though, had I been more aware of some of the reliability issues that others were having, I would have shut them off, just to be safe.) I've had CD players that were set on repeat for years just to break equipment in and keep everything warmed up. Unlike a lot of people, I have had very good luck with reliability issues. Of course, today, manufactures have come a long way fixing those problems, but for me, I still like a single box solution. To deal with problems like jitter, keeping everything in one box fixed a lot of problems. (For example, instead of a receiver, you can go with an amp, preamp, phono stage and tuner.) If you look back to when high end CD playback was first getting popular, the general trend was just the opposite. Generally speaking, with high end audio, things tend to get broken down into more separate, specialized pieces. Unless you are looking at something like Wadia or DCS separates, I prefer a single box solution. More importantly, CD's need all the help they can get to sound good.Īs far as getting a CD player or separates, that's a personal choice. There's no reason to buy something like an Oppo that is designed to do a whole bunch of things that you will never use it for. If thats the case, I think you are better off looking at something that plays CD's only. Just to clarify, are you looking for a CD player or a multi format player? Your original post says CD player.
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