RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players

Posted by dls123 (D) on February 2, 2015 at 08:14:57

In Reply to: RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players posted by BillH on February 2, 2015 at 07:03:03:

I agree with airtime.... I have a turntable, but have put all of my cds on my old laptop using an external drive - you can get 1 Tbyte for well under $100... I use JRiver Music center, but of course there are many software options, many free. Just use software that can bypass windows and talk directly to your DAC. I bought a Schiit Gungnir DAC with the USB for $750 on sale. So my cost was $49 for Jriver, $80 for a hard drive, $750 for a killer DAC that is far better than all the $300 ones. The sound absolutely trashes my very good Consonance Ref 2.2 CD player which has a tubed output stage and is very analog sounding. So my point is that for under $1000 I put a system together that will better most any cd player you are likely to buy for anything less than "stupid money". I downloaded some hi-res demo files for free and you can hear the DAC click and lock onto the hi-res signal and you can really hear the difference. So have a look at the various digital boards. You can do a system with one of the $300-500 DACs, an old laptop, and an external drive for probably $500-$700 that will be better than most any cd player at twice the price....

my 2 cents...I finally jumped last year

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Topic - Analog-Sounding CD Players - BillH 06:25:00 02/02/15 (30)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - Baranyi 07:36:57 02/22/15 (1)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - BillH 14:19:35 02/22/15 (0)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - spindoctor 06:50:37 02/05/15 (2)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - Satxhifi 18:43:35 02/24/15 (1)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - arizonalone 17:47:57 02/25/15 (0)

Okay, but what are the digital sounding turntables? - caffeinator 05:46:49 02/04/15 (0)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - Sherwood Forest 12:33:49 02/03/15 (1)

Taken one more step... - E-Stat 13:43:06 02/04/15 (0)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - KanedaK 12:14:39 02/03/15 (0)

Are you sorry you asked yet? - airtime 06:39:27 02/03/15 (3)

Funny - Awe-d-o-file 07:56:52 02/04/15 (0)

RE: Are you sorry you asked yet? - BillH 07:25:51 02/03/15 (1)

RE:Actually very little has changed - Russ57 11:53:33 02/03/15 (0)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - sony6060 06:11:12 02/03/15 (2)

Magnavox CDB series!! - Brian McGowan 19:47:52 02/05/15 (1)

RE: Magnavox CDB series!! - johnmil 15:21:28 02/22/15 (0)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - Michael Samra 01:14:04 02/03/15 (0)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - belyin 23:55:38 02/02/15 (0)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - hahax@verizon.net 20:40:02 02/02/15 (0)

RE: I'd say put your money in a DAC - Russ57 16:03:07 02/02/15 (1)

RE: I'd say put your money in a DAC - Michael Samra 03:22:14 02/03/15 (0)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - reuben 08:20:52 02/02/15 (0)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - airtime 06:42:54 02/02/15 (7)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - Crazy Dave 10:05:25 02/02/15 (2)

Agree on Sony ES - M3 lover 10:54:29 02/02/15 (1)

RE: Agree on Sony ES - Crazy Dave 12:52:38 02/02/15 (0)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - BillH 07:03:03 02/02/15 (3)

Let me add this point - airtime 13:05:15 02/02/15 (0)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - dls123 08:14:57 02/02/15 (1)

RE: Analog-Sounding CD Players - Michael Samra 14:15:42 02/03/15 (0)

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