IndianEars
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The Pro-Ject RS2T is excellent.
Did you buy it from the Indian Distributor?
Did you buy it from the Indian Distributor?
Good CD player or cheap CD player connected to a good external DAC?
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Shammi Dang
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Although my reply cannot be relevant looking at the date of your first post. But still I will share my experience.
I have used NAD CD player for many years but all that time the CD player was very heavy on the pocket with continuous problems and repairs - lens change, buttons malfunction, hum from analog output. Every time repair was done it was costly and I spend close to half the amount that I had spent on CD payer purchase.
I was also having a old Pioneer DVD player that I purchased in 2007 for around 3,500. Now that dvd player is in use for CD playback from more than 5 years routed via a co-axial cable and an external dac (schiit modi 3).
Very honestly there is no qualitative difference. The only difference is the visual appeal and the build quality. NAD was build heavily and this Pioneer DVD player is flimsy in comparison to NAD. In all these years just one change of lens, no other repairs.
So my conclusion is if there is a good sounding DAC available then even a normal CD playback through a player like Philips etc can sound equally good.
I too find Pioneer disk players quite reliable in general and almost fuss free. Although the new mid level ones have flimsy build quality.
Despite having a Marantz cd 6006 cdp which is quite fussy with cd's, I have kept my old trusty Pioneer bdp 180 for cd playback should the Marantz give any issues.
If at all the cdp players give up, then streaming is my last option and will try to digitize all the cd's on a hard disk.
Shammi Dang
Active Member
I already have all my CD's back in one Hard Disk that is part of a WD media player (live tv hub) so even if the CD player is totally gone then also I have back up in Flac format. As such I have not purchased any new CD from past 4-5 years. These days online streaming is good enough, quality and variety at fraction of cost.
Sean de Silva
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Interesting
www.headphonesty.com
New Test Reveals How Vintage CD Players Outperform Modern Models Thanks to One Forgotten Design Choice
The study shows how overlooked testing methods hid the true performance of both vintage and current models.
www.headphonesty.com
Very interesting indeed. Thanks for sharing this.Interesting
New Test Reveals How Vintage CD Players Outperform Modern Models Thanks to One Forgotten Design Choice
The study shows how overlooked testing methods hid the true performance of both vintage and current models.
reignofchaos
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More AI generated slop.Interesting
New Test Reveals How Vintage CD Players Outperform Modern Models Thanks to One Forgotten Design Choice
The study shows how overlooked testing methods hid the true performance of both vintage and current models.
The last thing one should look for in a CD player performance is treatment of inter sample overs. These are a problem only when the music is at clipping level aka poorly mastered music. That will sound bad irrespective of whether the device has headroom for inter sample overs or not. Also if you are using any reasonably modern outboard DAC, they will mostly support inter sample overs correctly.
What about the single test tone allegedly used in testing routinely?
The study was published on ASR so probably not AI generated?
www.audiosciencereview.com
The study was published on ASR so probably not AI generated?
More than we hear (with a CD player)
Hello Everyone, Several of you are regularly asking me what are the measurements of importance and how to perform them, when it comes to review a CD Player. This post tries to reply to these questions. Introduction As some of you know, I'm a lot into the good old silver disc and I like to...
www.audiosciencereview.com
reignofchaos
Well-Known Member
The ASR article is real. The article linked is AI slop.What about the single test tone allegedly used in testing routinely?
The study was published on ASR so probably not AI generated?
More than we hear (with a CD player)
Hello Everyone, Several of you are regularly asking me what are the measurements of importance and how to perform them, when it comes to review a CD Player. This post tries to reply to these questions. Introduction As some of you know, I'm a lot into the good old silver disc and I like to...
greenhorn
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The CXC uses the sanyo sfp101n mechanism.
You can get a complete mechanism from eBay for $10.
There are a lot of CD mechanisms that are engineering Marvels.
With the CXC, whatever you are paying for, it certainly is not for a high end mechanism.
This is fairly standard practice though, with even some big names like wadia etc being guilty of it.
Personally I'm a fan of the philips swingarm mechanisms.
You can get a complete mechanism from eBay for $10.
There are a lot of CD mechanisms that are engineering Marvels.
With the CXC, whatever you are paying for, it certainly is not for a high end mechanism.
This is fairly standard practice though, with even some big names like wadia etc being guilty of it.
Personally I'm a fan of the philips swingarm mechanisms.
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