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In Reply to: What CD player under $2000 sounds good without a pre-amp? posted by Donald on May 17, 2005 at 07:54:21:
What CD player under $2000 sounds good with a mid-level receiver would be a better question to ask - because you *are* using a preamp (i.e., though built into the receiver).If you wanted a CD player to use without a preamp, in the price range, I'd suggest a used Wadia 830 as an excellent option.
Straight into an amp the Wadia is an excellent solution. You can even get it with digital inputs and use the Wadia as a *preamp* (i.e., can switch between digital inputs and handle volume, all on the Wadia).
Would this still be a good option for you? Would depend on your upgrade plans - unless you plan a significant change to the rest of the system, then I'd guess you wouldn't get out of the Wadia what its capable of and so it wouldn't be the most rewarding investment.
In your current situation, you're really just looking for a good CD player, and in the context of your current system, I don't believe you need to spend so much.
If you want to spend the money, you could buy something like a Philips 963 DVD/CD/SACD player and a Benchmark DAC - you'd have the option of using the Benchmark volume to trial pre-ampless systems, experiment with the Benchmark on your computer, if you go the music-server route so many are trying these days etc.
You could go for an excellent universal player like the Denon 3910 - plays the lot, and sounds very good, ...and has extremely good video ; around $1K new on Ebay.
Or go for an older high end CD player,...Sonic Frontiers SFCD1? Sony XA7ES? Sony 777ES SACD Player? (excellent machine, but very slow to ready a disc, typical of the early SACD players) Naim CD3.5 or CD5? (CDX is really good, ...but even the others are already beyond the currrent system.
Actually, the Naim might not be a bad idea because they have a musicality that doesn't depend on resolution or super-hi bandwidth or a lot of the *audiophile* qualities that might not make it through the HK.
Looking at new and used/classic players, there are likely dozens and dozens of machines that would be excellent, that wouldn't be the weak link...,.
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