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In Reply to: Transport for Denafrips Ares? posted by bgunn on May 18, 2019 at 12:23:48:
Why not continue to use the Oppo as a transport to feed your new DAC? And, as others have suggested, start ripping your CDs to mass storage? The number of manufacturers of optical drives is shrinking, as they have been abandoned by the PC industry and by the audio and video industries.
Being a mechanical device, the optical drive will fail sooner or later; and there are those who say that playback quality from mass storage, especially if caching to a SSD is used, is better than from an optical drive.
As far as SACDs go, there is a method for ripping them from -- IIRC earlier generation OPPOs to dsd/dsf files that then can be added to your mass storage. There are also folks who do this for a fee. Transports that play SACDs are limited to a few with proprietary interfaces (tying you to their DAC), such as PS Audio and some OPPOS that have an HDMI output (which requires a DAC with an HDMI input). Likewise, there are new, cheap "universal disc players" oriented to the Home Theater market; but they all output an HDMI signal.
Notice I have not said a word about streaming services, such as Tidal and Qobuz. I continue to believe that they are way underpriced, so the fact that they are a screaming deal today may not always be the case. But I really considered that beyond the scope of your question.
Some serious bargains on used CDs, by the way. Not all of them sound like crap.
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Topic - Transport for Denafrips Ares? - bgunn 12:23:48 05/18/19 ( 31)
- RE: Transport for Denafrips Ares? - audioengr 09:20:31 06/12/19 ( 0)
RE: Transport for Denafrips Ares? - Bruce from DC 06/9/19 12:09:51 06/9/19 ( 0)
here are some - Frihed89 11:57:06 05/19/19 ( 0)
RE: Transport for Denafrips Ares? - digepix 08:20:56 05/19/19 ( 0)
"If you must tell me to rip all my discs or go streaming, you're welcome to." - Cut-Throat 14:06:16 05/18/19 ( 26)
- Unless you are VERY old and don't have time left to rip 4000 CDs - Ivan303 17:33:46 05/18/19 ( 24)
- RE: Unless you are VERY old and don't have time left to rip 4000 CDs - bgunn 08:54:47 05/20/19 ( 3)
- On QOBUZ... - Ivan303 16:51:30 05/20/19 ( 0)
- Tidal has all of your Eclectic Choices..... - Cut-Throat 11:55:06 05/20/19 ( 1)
- RE: Tidal has all of your Eclectic Choices..... - bgunn 12:10:33 05/20/19 ( 0)
RE: Unless you are VERY old and don't have time left to rip 4000 CDs - Awe-d-o-file 08:17:56 05/19/19 ( 1)
- RE: Unless you are VERY old and don't have time left to rip 4000 CDs - bgunn 08:49:50 05/20/19 ( 0)
RE: Unless you are VERY old and don't have time left to rip 4000 CDs - Jack G 08:02:40 05/19/19 ( 3)
- Don't have it yet.... - Ivan303 10:08:29 05/19/19 ( 2)
- Sorry, I forgot - Jack G 12:07:06 05/19/19 ( 1)
- Looks like two more weeks of waiting... - Ivan303 12:25:07 05/19/19 ( 0)
Maybe you're so old that you don't have enough time left to even listen to them ?....nt - Cut-Throat 07:49:37 05/19/19 ( 0)
Yes.....TIDAL and/or QOBUZ - mitch2 06:05:50 05/19/19 ( 0)
RE: Unless you are VERY old and don't have time left to rip 4000 CDs - Kal Rubinson 19:26:59 05/18/19 ( 11)
- The only silver disks I'd take the time to rip today... - Ivan303 20:15:03 05/18/19 ( 10)
- Each one takes about 1/2 hour........................... - Kal Rubinson 06:01:15 05/19/19 ( 9)
- Double that if I were doing it... - Ivan303 07:39:59 05/19/19 ( 8)
- Trivial to do with a Mac and a player based on the Mediatek MT8550/8580 - Dave_K 04:45:37 05/20/19 ( 0)
- Nah. - Kal Rubinson 14:33:51 05/19/19 ( 0)
- You could have them ripped for you. - The Killer Piglet 10:16:29 05/19/19 ( 3)
- I was speaking of what is required for ripping SACD's... - Ivan303 14:24:00 05/19/19 ( 2)
- RE: I was speaking of what is required for ripping SACD's... - The Killer Piglet 14:54:34 05/19/19 ( 1)
- RE: I was speaking of what is required for ripping SACD's... - Kal Rubinson 18:16:40 05/19/19 ( 0)
- I agree - Story 07:53:40 05/19/19 ( 1)
- That works great for CDs... - Ivan303 08:08:46 05/19/19 ( 0)
What he said. (NT) - Kal Rubinson 14:26:08 05/18/19 ( 0)
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