Ron's Speaker, Turntable, Power and Room Treatment Upgrades
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The jitter structure of most cheap players creates a very disagreeable and nasty sound signatute when listening in an high resolution system. If going this way I suggest something with a Philips mechanism, such as the old Marantz CD players. In general these players had less resolution but had a fuller, more inoffensive sound. Or get a vintage Madrigal Proceed transport or player - they go cheap and are nice sounding.
Also remember the SACD DSD layer can't be played in the Lampizator.
Somehow I missed your plans to implement a streaming sub-system which has been discussed in recent posts.
I hope you find your DAC and any other related equipment to be a good match within a room and system you have yet to assemble together. A discarded Sony BDP or Playstation might yet prove to be worthwhile fun during your investigative period. If the CD's fate wasn't already signed off on.
Why would I want to bypass a Lampizator DAC?
What about for a dedicated CD transport the Audiolab 6000CDT or the Cambridge Audio CXC V2? The Audiolab claims to have some sort of jitter reducing buffer.
Having just listened a few times to an album I discovered this morning (Patty Smyth’s It’s About Time https://www.whatsbestforum.com/threads/patty-smyth’s-it’s-about-time.35622/) which is available only on CD, I suddenly had the very weird thought that maybe I should get a CD transport, and not get rid of my couple of hundred CDs?
I guess I should find an analog thermometer and check my temperature.
how serious are you wanting to get, for 'a couple hundred CD's"?
are you interested in just having the CD music for 'visitors'? or serious listening? it seems you really don't know where you are going. so others assume what they want to assume about it. and you will get all sorts of levels of suggestions.
like i mentioned, a retired Oppo from my HT, fills the bill perfectly for a random CD player to use. and i have 4000 CD's in my room. sure you could spend lots on an exotic transport for the Lampi? for what purpose exactly? i have no intensions of connecting my Oppo to my Wadax for the odd CD once in a 'very long' while.
All excellent questions and comments, Mike! 4,000 CDs? Wow!
How serious? Only $300 serious. That’s all. I just bid for a CD transport, for $300, on Audiogon.
I like the belt-drive CEC transports, but there is no reason to go to that level for, as you find, the rare selection of a CD for personal playback enjoyment.
I think I’m going to “split the baby” and cull the CD collection and donate about half of the CDs and take a tax deduction, and keep the other half of CDs. I will donate the CDs of titles of which I have multiple copies on vinyl. I have been actively selling sealed records which are exact duplicates or near duplicates (keeping a 180g and selling a 200g record of the same title by the same re-issue outfit), so I think I will have some free space left in the new wall-mounted record/tape storage unit.
I have no interest in having CDs for visitors. I will keep the CDs of digital recordings (as my general philosophy is to play recordings in their native format). And I will keep CDs of oddities and one-hit wonders which I don’t have on vinyl.
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No one talks about bypassing the Lampizator DAC - the type of CD players I referred had a coaxial SPDIF output.
No experience with the transports you refer, but most inexpensive non vintage CD transports and players use CD-ROM readers, known for average sound quality. IMHO anti-jitter can´t replace a quality transport.
that's why I recommended the Pioneer dvd. read through what Lukasz wrote about it. with small mods the the plays at 10,000 € level plays dvd audio, sacd. what more do you want. Without mods really good not worldclass.
I may be getting carried away here, but I’ve obtained a second turntable/tonearm/cartridge combination!
Actually if the CDP has an HDMI output there are boxes (one made by Geerfab called d.bob) that provide DoP via S/PDIF. It makes CDs and SACDs sound pretty good running through my Holo Audio May DAC.
They only support a few CD players - see https://geerfab.com/audio/system-requirements/ for the list and the box is expensive( $999 in the US, as far as I could see) . But this a very interesting development.
I cannot but echo Mike Lavigne's take on this. Indeed, regarding the 100-150(?) CDs left after the sorting, I would use the CDP (or a dvd as suggested) as transport and connect it to the DAC.
...Which is what I'm doing with very acceptable results and I have around 2000 cd many of which I have not ripped (whenever I set up to actually do it, something better to do invariably pops up!).
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