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Original Message
RE: Better to buy new lower-end, or older higher-end?
Posted by K-wey on February 22, 2012 at 14:10:37:
Thank you for all of your replies, which I've been reading as they gathered over the past week. This thread is a broad array of opinions and several good new ideas.
- I will likely "go new" based on several comments about the wear and aging of transports and lasers. I appreciate the heads-up on that aspect.
- Thanks also to those who suggested looking into DACs. I'd need a modern CD player to use just as a transport, right? And take the digital signal (via SPDIF optical out) to the DAC, as I understand it? Right now my creaky old 1989-era CD player is so old it does not have an optical or digital out. That's what I need to replace first.
- FLAC lossless files and future-proofing is a good idea. For now I'd like to hear my CDs as-is, but I'll go research the topic some more. That path also leads to a DAC unit, if I understand correctly.
Thanks again. I've had to catch up on lost decades on audio technology, and you guys are good sports about it. And for the guy who wasn't, hey, at least I got dunked on by Kal Rubinson.
=K