CDP

[Ken.nelson0317]

Looking for a good cd player. Dont want to spend a fortune. Under 200. I have a sony 300 disc changer now. No digital output. Trying to upgrade to see if can get more out of my cd'd. Im like Joe Walsh- An Analog Man. lol Suggestions please. I know this is also cracy but would like a silver face if possible.

 

[orange]

You don't have 300 CDs. Send it to me and I'll save your life by giving you a single disc player so you have to search about the house and get exercise looking for them!

 

[speakerman1]

Looking for a good cd player. Dont want to spend a fortune. Under 200. I have a sony 300 disc changer now. No digital output. Trying to upgrade to see if can get more out of my cd'd. Im like Joe Walsh- An Analog Man. lol Suggestions please. I know this is also cracy but would like a silver face if possible.

I have some here that are changers. I sold my better decks last month. The Onkyo is being used. It is a 6 disc changer with an optical out I think. I think I have a remote. You will get all kinds of recommendations. Some say newer some say older. Some say upsampling others say not. Some like tubes some don't. Some do transports and DACs others don't. It does have an optical out. 50.00 plus shipping. I do have DACs and anti-jitters. I do ship when I feel like it. LOL I usually get them there is a couple of weeks. So far I haven't stiffed any one.

 

[speakerman1]

What are you looking for. You can get a pretty good set up for about 400.00 Used. A pretty good transport and good DAC. There is a nice USB DAC out of China. I would like to put a nice tube output on. The DAC is 210.00. You can get a pretty good transport for 200 to 300.00. The USB will spoil you listening to playlists for days and never hear the same song twice. All at your fingertips just hanging in thin air. Just waiting for you to listen to them.

 

[orange]

101 CDs on my Pioneer in random mode will take a week to hear maybe, given realistic time constraints. I only have just over 8 hours playing time in my You Tube Favorites and that's about 240 videos.

 

[Ken.nelson0317]

I've been looking at the Grant Fidelity Tube Dac 11 for a Dac. Undecided on cdp though. Not sure whether to go vintage or new or a cdr instead of just a cdp so I can record my analog without using a computer program to do it. Digital is quite foreign to me but I'm beginning to understand it alittle more. I do like the 300 disc changer on random, kinda like a juke box, but I'm shooting for better quality sound from cd's.

 

[speakerman1]

I just sold my Grant Fidelity CDP. My Grant stuff left here first. It is good gear. Here is the DAC to me that is worth the money.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/300655040106?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

 

[Ken.nelson0317]

I just sold my Grant Fidelity CDP. My Grant stuff left here first. It is good gear. Here is the DAC to me that is worth the money.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/300655040106?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Pretty interesting.

 

[speakerman1]

That will be the next DAC I buy.

 

[speakerman1]

You can get an older transport very reasonable. Do a search about OPPO DVD players. For the price you won't regret it. Very good player CD and DVD. There is a thread about them.

 

[stuwee]

Hey Ken, my story as a die hard analog guy. I used a pretty nice for it's vintage Panasonic DVD/CD changer for years, I thought it was pretty nice, then Lee sent me an Onix deck, Damn if the threads aren't true, a good player makes a HUGE difference in the sound, and a separate DAC can make it even better, I've not gone that route, do to finances...ya know, add cables and it gets costly....

Every thing gets out dated soooo fast in digital reproduction, blink an eye, and your pristine sound has been replaced , finding a nice silver face deck might not be an option.

Once ya black, ya never go back!!

btw, personally, I prefer tubes in the preamp or amp section in the system. I really think tubed CDP's are a bit over the top, unless you're a tube sound fiend. Then you should go whole hog with an all tube rig. Just my audio thoughts.

 

[speakerman1]

Oh the glow.

 

[laatsch55]

Now that's cool Larrt!

 

[Ken.nelson0317]

Now that's cool Larrt!

Like a Blue Oyster Cult concert. What are the components? Beaaautiful

 

[Rex Everything]

Cambridge Audio 640c's generally sell in the $2-300 range and are very nice players with excellent chip sets.......

 

[speakerman1]

Shanling CD T1000 SE CDP and Cary 100 watt monoblocs

 

[mlucitt]

Question for the gathered CDP experts. Does it make sense to buy a $200-$300 CDP when I can get this: http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Expan...8&qid=1354766340&sr=8-4&keywords=cd+transport

To recap, the $130 3TB external HDD can store 50,000 hours of bit perfect digital music in whatever format I want (.mp3 for the small files, FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) or WMA (Windows Media Audio)/AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) for a better "lossless" data format or .cda (CD Audio) or .wav (Waveform Audio File) if ripped from the CD to the HDD for the best sound, but my ears can't really hear much above 15kHz). I can get a track/disc/genre library software application (I think). I don't have to worry about jitter, bouncing tracks, 44.1kHz, or any of that jazz. I would just need a USB DAC and some cables, right? Or does the signal need to go through the computer and then into the DAC?

I understand CD Audio runs at about 1.4Mbps, so the HDD should work well. Tell me if I'm all wet on this.

 

[laatsch55]

Jer will let ya know all about it and what sound card to run to upsample at a higher rate and sound that much better.

 

[speakerman1]

It has to go through the computer to control it. Jerry's sound card has a DAC. He has analog outputs. So you would need a USB DAC unless you want to buy a sound card with one. Like I said earlier. Some people like upsampling. Others don't due to the compression of the signal. You are putting out putting out more info so the signal becomes compressed. If I had around 300.00 to spend I would buy an Oppo. It does so much for the price. It is a very nice 3 to 400.00 DVD, CD, SACD, Upgrade to 1080p from any format. It is a very nice DVD player.

 

[stuwee]

Jer will let ya know all about it and what sound card to run to upsample at a higher rate and sound that much better.

I'll second that info, Jerry has sent me some increadible sounding music on analog tape that I can hear a huge difference from the analog source I have access to, most impressive!! If anyone has their finger on the digital pulse of 1111 and OOOO's I'd say Jer is da man...I however have a evil plot to bring him back home to 'What it's all about' , draggin' a rock through a ditch, bummpa ta bummpa un side ta side, Oh Maybellene why can't ya be true?? BrawHahahah!!

Bottom line, both are here to stay...