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    Various DAC Audition Impressions

    Looks like you’ve done the switches etc. In my case I swapped out the Blue Jeans Cat 6 for Sablon. More body, impact and air. i read that the Grimm’s prefer the EBS/XLR output. Sounds like your heart is set on the CD Transport. Would be interested to hear your findings.
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    Various DAC Audition Impressions

    As your Mojo server and DAC are both really high quality, my guess is that you won’t find substantial difference between the CD transport and your server. You might find more improvement through switches, renderers and reclockers to replace the SPDIF connection. Cost about $5k in total for me...
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    Various DAC Audition Impressions

    That's the point: through the memory player, it's NOT the same CD sound! The simplest way I can describe it is the sound is shorn of glare or sheen that I associate with digital. The other quality is a fluidity that you normally only get from vinyl. It may lack that last bit of immediacy that a...
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    Various DAC Audition Impressions

    I come from the vinyl era and have struggled to accept CD sound all these years. Now I rip my CD's into a server ---Laufer Teknik's Memory Player 64-16. The sound from the server is very analog and for the first time I am happy listening to digital. This is despite a modest DAC --- Naim DAC V1...
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    What's the best nas server? Innuos or Melco???

    I am using a Laufer Teknik MP64-16 Memory Player. It is a server/transport with SSD with CD ripper. It can connect to the DAC via XLR/SPDIF or ethernet (to network switch or renderer). It comes with JRiver music software which is a bit clunky but I control it with my iPad instead using MConnect...
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    Laufer Teknik Memory Player 64

    I bought my MP64-16 from Volent Audio HK in 2020 after first auditioning one at Volent driving a TotalDAC. Having started with vinyl and cassette tapes in the 70's and never really took to the flat and clinical sound of CD's, the MP was like a trip back to the lively and warm sounds of analog in...

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