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In Reply to: If you bought a CD player today, what would it be? posted by Budrew on February 28, 2012 at 13:03:01:
I PERSONALLY wouldn't invest in anything but a commodity CD player. Or perhaps a 'universal' player. My OPPO 981dv will spin SACD. At the 500$ level of NAD, Rotel, CA or a few others produce players using the same transport as much more $$ players and just as durable.
Recently, in looking over *who* uses *what* transport, I saw that CA used the SAME Sanyo transport from the 340 to the 840. Come'on now! Unless it is built to last, (doubt it) and has much in the way of vibration / resonance control features designed in, I'd skip it.
So, my 840c had the SAME transport as a player selling for 20% of the price. Not even a upgrade to a Phillips CDM series 'pro'.
My CAs transport is the SAME as used in the MCD1000 from Macintosh...
CA isn't the only one to do this. Other companies with wide lines also use the same transport thruout. Denon uses Sony transports almost exclusively.
NAD is interesting in that they appear to use....or have used.....transports from everybody. Sony? Phillips? Sanyo? and even Toshiba.....(license made Sony?)
So, with that in mind, I'll stick with a commodity Disc spinner and a good outboard DAC. Or, at least as good as I can afford. The DAC becomes a new 'hub' component feeding the integrated thru balanced. All my music now comes from internet radio (only OK, usually), small dish XM/Sirius or ALAC files from borrowed, begged or stolen CDs.
This even, using optical, eliminates the possibility of ground loops. A plus? My computer even streams audio thru BlueTooth! and without using the USB or an optical input.....nice!
So, unless 'ya simply gotta have it, I'd skip it. Computer audio has come a long way. I suppose, in retrospect, it was inevitable. From the first CD players...like my Magnevox top loader over ...there.... which were essentially a dedicated computer...to modern file systems and really cool players / storage / servers...digits have been king for 30 years.
Too much is never enough
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