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cd-player seems to win over CMP

both connected to modded Benchmark DAC1 by SPDIF:
** CMP - Juli@ optical out (removerd analogue part of the card) - vdHull optical cable - BM dac1
** Marantz CD63 coaxial out - coaxial 75Ohm cable - BM dac1

OS is very small nLite-XPproSP2-install, awe, mem=256-tweak. No steppe's or BitchBatches yet.

The old (but famous) Marantz wins. Not easily, but it wins. It's designed very neat, has separated power lines for analogue and digital and cd-mechanic, but not a very good clock (like juli@).
I was shocked too. I got rid of the Marantz a few years ago, because cmp won at that time. Two years ago i changed amp (Arcam A90 to Hexateq UcD400 with greeaat PSU). I forgot, until Junaid lately asked me to compare cmp and cdp. I'm unpacking my cd's now.
I still have to try Junaids batches and XP-Home.
Besides that i'm thinking of trying Voyage MPD as OS, but I'm not really at home @ linux.

I think cdp's only task is buffering data and clocking it right before passing to spdif-chip.
cmp-boards have a lot more functions and chips to feed.
That's why i'm thinking about Alix 1D + Juli@.

How about your cdplayers?
Has anyone tried Voyage MPD as OS?

Douwe

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