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An interesting tube CDP

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In Reply to: RE: Thinking laterally (upgrade?) posted by greg7 on November 04, 2007 at 09:54:53

The E.A.R Acute. It starts life as an Arcam and ends up as......?

It keeps the upsmapling, but adds atube output stage and bunch of other stuff. I am a little partial to Arcam in the first place and this sounded magical, but that may also have been due to all the other E.A.R products mated to it.

I like Naim CDPs and I like AN Dacs: two different sounds to be sure, but I do love them both. But unless you get the most expensive AN CDP at about $8500 a pop, you'll have to add an AN transport to get the best out of the AN Dac and by then you'll be well over $6000.

The Acute is probably hard to find. I'd upgrade the Naim. Shoot the Moon on the 555 or get the AN CD 4.1x. Or keep what you have and add a power supply if you haven't already.

I have never compared any CDP with the Acute. I heard it alone.
Greetings from the sunny Brønshøj riveria on the banks of the lovely Utterslev Mose

Follow Ups:

Interesting Suggestions. - Larry I 10:54:29 11/05/07 (4)
- RE: Interesting Suggestions. - kuma 21:43:14 11/05/07 (2)
  - CDS3 v. CD555 - Larry I 04:27:30 11/06/07 (1)
    - No doubt the sound of power supply is fundamental... - kuma 12:08:57 11/06/07 (0)
- I am not familiar with the CDS3 nor have I heard it - Frihed89 14:15:13 11/05/07 (0)

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