Tube like CD plyaers

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I have a Creek CD 50 which I bought on the recommendation of a retailer friend that is usually fairly spot on however he lives in the otherside of Canada (same width as the US)& does not really get my system or room. The problem as I have mentioned here before is that I am a partial shut in due to a chronic illness .So between the advice of a few eastern audiophiles & coupled with some advice I have very gratefully obtained here, I have tried to cobble together a new system which is sibilance free & was a improvement over my last one. When I could travelâ€¦not a problem because I could ether get a good idea listening or as we often do here in western Canada let folks try demos at home. At one point I was also in the business & still have some other retail friends that will send me things now & again. All this made it easy to buy a new system because I definitely know what I like & don't like & many use to seek out my opinion going way back into the 1980s.
I am now thinking of trading my new RA Tempest II because it does not play a pair of speaker (the Silverline 17V3) with much dynamc range or energy due to the 84 db actual rating as oppose to the advertised 89. I wish reviewers would tell one these things however they usually have the mega buck high watt stuff so they do not see that guys on LTD like me use medium powered tube amps like my great sounding RA Tempest II .Essentially ,in no way no way does it have even enough bass to match up with my PSB heavily modified sub,.nor enough dynamic range to play rock music .I also need something softer on the front end than the Creek CD50 MkII plus I am in the throws of trying to trade up the TII for a Plinius 9200 to run my 17v3.
This brings me to the point at hand. A red book CD player between $1500 to $2000 USD range (at retail) that has a nice tube like upper midrange the softens down the sibilance one find on most commercial CDs & a surprising number of so called audiophile disks.I have heard from my pal Lyle down at the Hifi Attic in Vernon that the new Quad CDP possesses this quality as a example of something to try. Also do folks who own the Creek CD50 MKII find it has trouble playing scratched disks?This was supposed to be one of itâ€™s strengths due to the prereading format that error corrects prior to the sound being loosed from the unit so to speak. Do these units have repair issues? ..again I heard they were well built & quite hardy..these last two point aside from the reported excellent sonics that drew me to the player. Just some questions the odd owner might be familiar with.
Again,I am open to suggestions .In the past some of the insights & led I have found here have been invaluable.
Thanks in Advance
Bill

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Topic - Tube like CD plyaers - Audiopath49 20:16:23 12/19/06 (7)

Check out the Raysonic 128....... - Chuck Y 15:30:43 12/21/06 (0)

Re: Tube like CD plyaers - digepix 14:21:32 12/21/06 (2)

Re: Tube like CD plyaers - Audiopath49 14:54:38 12/21/06 (1)

Re: Tube like CD plyaers - saltyflies 23:24:58 12/21/06 (0)

What about a CD player with a tube output stage? - Frihed89 04:29:51 12/21/06 (0)

try a nonoversampling DAC, or switch to PC audio - Tom Schuman 05:22:08 12/20/06 (0)

Re: Tube like CD players - Audiopath49 20:20:18 12/19/06 (0)

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