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In Reply to: Tube like CD plyaers posted by Audiopath49 on December 19, 2006 at 20:16:23:
The main culprits for bright sound in CD replay seem to be 1. oversampling and 2. inherently poor data extraction from CD transports running in real time. 1. is supposed to help with the poor sample rate of 'redbook' CD, but also adds a glaze and shrillness to the sound and 2. is why great transports make a difference.Switching to a laptop with a USB out to a good nonoversampling dac, will probably solve the brightness problems.
Once you load the CD onto the HD, then you are playing from the hard drive not the optical drive and the digital to analog converter is able to decode all of the data that exists on the disc.
in the view of many here on the board, especially over on the PC audio section, there in no reason to either or buy manufacture CD players anymore (especially not the pricey ones), except consumers buy them out of sheer habit and companies build them because they are set up to do so.
The burwen bobcat DAC is an interesting product ( a signal processer as well as a dac), though you do not need to spend 2000 for a DAC with a USB input.I have not tried the above but i am playing with a nos dac right now (from mhdt labs) that is a pleasing listen, though perhaps a bit too 'analog' sounding overall - soft and pleasing but not the last word in dynamics.
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- try a nonoversampling DAC, or switch to PC audio - Tom Schuman 05:22:08 12/20/06 (0)
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