In Reply to: RE: Atkinson re Ayre C5xe posted by Sprezza Tura on May 11, 2014 at 15:35:48:
...we compared the two at a friend's house a few years ago - he had a $16k Spectral CD player and a new music computer with no moving parts (solid state HD) he paid $3k for.
The computer handily beat the CD player.
He said, "Guess I'll be selling it."
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- RE: Comparing them - mkuller 19:01:23 05/11/14 (24)
- RE: Comparing them - JNS 15:49:07 05/12/14 (7)
- Yep, slow, lumbering, thick, syrupy -t - Sordidman 09:44:04 05/15/14 (2)
- RE: Yep, slow, lumbering, thick, syrupy -t - JNS 14:41:18 05/17/14 (1)
- Ha ha ha! Awesome - Sordidman 10:37:24 05/21/14 (0)
- RE: Comparing them - mkuller 15:55:27 05/12/14 (3)
- RE: Comparing them - JNS 17:03:23 05/18/14 (2)
- RE: Comparing them - abs1 14:13:40 05/19/14 (0)
- RE: Comparing them - JNS 18:41:28 05/18/14 (0)
- RE: Comparing them - Sprezza Tura 19:53:35 05/11/14 (0)
- I read JA's reply to say that his comparison only used the Ayre as a transport--same DAC both cases - John Marks 19:25:40 05/11/14 (14)
- RE: I read JA's reply to say that his comparison only used the Ayre as a transport--same DAC both cases - Sprezza Tura 19:49:37 05/11/14 (13)
- Nearly everything makes a difference... - John Marks 05:50:06 05/12/14 (12)
- RE: Nearly everything makes a difference... - Sprezza Tura 17:47:55 05/14/14 (0)
- RE: Nearly everything makes a difference... - Frihed89 14:35:48 05/12/14 (0)
- Native DSD files. - Kal Rubinson 06:56:47 05/12/14 (9)
- Excuse me, Kal - John Marks 17:53:41 05/12/14 (1)
- That is what they purport. - Kal Rubinson 18:26:02 05/12/14 (0)
- Modest start - E-Stat 10:57:19 05/12/14 (6)