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I was cutting and stripping the wires for the innards of the Jensen speakers I have been working on, and listening to a CD while doing it. I tried some exotic stuff an audiobuddy gave me, but it was difficult and stripping broke the wires too many times. Settled on Radio Shack Megacable, 16 gauge, of which I had a lot, picked up cheap at a thrift years ago.
Well, while cleaning up, the CD began to skip, and it only got worse with time. I knew this day was coming - the player in question is the Denon DCD-3300, TOTL in its day, and built like the proverbial tank. It was fine for a long time, then the analog section got noisy and I decided to use it as a transport until that went bad. Today's the day. I hurried to put the five buck Pioneer in its place, forgetting that a high-grade Sony is already in the system. I had always thought of it as a movie machine, but since it is a DC/DVD player, I'll need to do a shootout. As it is, the Pioneer has an interestingly different sound, and I suppose I have really been hearing the DAC all this time. It's the end of an era...
Well, while cleaning up, the CD began to skip, and it only got worse with time. I knew this day was coming - the player in question is the Denon DCD-3300, TOTL in its day, and built like the proverbial tank. It was fine for a long time, then the analog section got noisy and I decided to use it as a transport until that went bad. Today's the day. I hurried to put the five buck Pioneer in its place, forgetting that a high-grade Sony is already in the system. I had always thought of it as a movie machine, but since it is a DC/DVD player, I'll need to do a shootout. As it is, the Pioneer has an interestingly different sound, and I suppose I have really been hearing the DAC all this time. It's the end of an era...