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In Reply to: post follow-up, re: CDP upgrade. posted by BJordan on May 17, 2005 at 16:40:45:
The 308T is a nice player, and I lived with it for a while. It gives you some flexability. It also gives you the option of defeating the oversampling, which i prefered doing. I eventually replaced mine with the Resolution Audio Opus 21.
enjoy,
Jack
Follow Ups:
JackG, what prompted you to switch to Opus21 from the 308T?
To be honest, the Cary sound was beginning to bother me. Tube swapping only goes so far, especially if they are 12AU7s. Next to the Opus, the Cary is crude, agressive and synthetic sounding. BTW, I prefer the cary with the upsampling turned off.
Jack
Personal preference I suppose but one of my all time favorites is the Cary 308T. I've never heard the Opus 21.
I prefer the Opus to the 306 as well.
Jack
I didn't care for the Opus 21 much, finding it dynamically lacking compared to my Cary 303/200, and also a bit...I dunno...too smooth. (Never had the 308T in my system.)System synergy is the key. But the Opus 21 spit the bits playing my favorite music in my system. I know many other inmates love Opus 21s and CD55s. I always liked Meridian, Ayre, Arcam and Cary better.
That I may just not like the sound of asymetric upsampling. At least to the Carys' credit, they let you turn it off. I've also heard the Ayre and Meridian. As you say, system synergy is the key, as is personal preferences.
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