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new CD player and DAC needed

Posted by airheadair (A) on May 19, 2016 at 08:22:52

I'm writing to ask for advice about the possible purchase of a new CD player. (Many people will say I just should listen myself, but nevertheless I do appreciate any advice that could be offered based on people's experience and expertise.) We have a fairly large LP collection and also a fairly large CD collection, and we enjoy both. However our LP front end is much superior to our CD player, and for most recordings sounds much better, especially in terms of ambience, dimensionality, and dynamic excitement. Our CD player (an off-the-shelf Onkyo unit) has already been repaired once and is beginning to skip again, and so I'm thinking that we should invest in something better. Poking around on the web has led me to the following ideas:

Shanling CD3.2
Line Magnetic CD 515
Marantz SA-14S1
Marantz SA-11S3

The Line Magnetic has gotten lots of very positive informal reviews, and a local dealer who helped me with my cartridge has recommended it. The Marantz units have the advantage that they will play SACD's (I may have a couple already) and the rather expensive 11S3 has a five year warranty.

For reference, I have a rather vintage system with which I am very happy: Stax F83 speakers, NYAL OTL3 amps., Klyne preamp, Well tempered table with van den Hul Frog cartridge.

Thanks very much

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