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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,243
    edited November 2011
    BTW my vote goes for a good DAC.....
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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,490
    edited November 2011
    The Cambridge 840C cd player also functions as an excellent DAC with two digital inputs. Audio Advisor also has them on sale in black for $995. Not sure why, because I haven't heard there's a new model coming out.
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,500
    edited November 2011
    dkg999 wrote: »
    The Music Hall 25.3 has mods available and uses SS for the balanced outputs. Others here are far more knowledgeable than I on DAC's. I own the PS Audio and the Music Hall and enjoy them both.

    I stuck $300 in my Music Hall 25.3 DAC (less than 1K total in it, bought new) and it significantly improved tube and balanced out sound quality. Burson HD op amps, Mundorf M-Caps for op amp/tube out coupling caps and a higher quality crystal oscillator. Balanced out bypasses the tube and op amp/tube coupling caps and can be ignored for the non tube folks. It is a good design and is supplied with quality caps in it. (Nichicon Fine Gold, Panasonic FC). Some modders replace the five power filter caps with same value, but higher quality and physically larger caps and upgrade the diodes.
    Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 *
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited November 2011
    Face wrote: »
    Changing CD's is as mundane as flipping a record.

    But he likes it and gets satisfaction from it, just as you do spending weeks trying to get the best flat response curve you can when designing your own speakers. To each his/her own! :mrgreen:
    VTL ST50 w/mods / RCA6L6GC / TlfnknECC801S
    Conrad Johnson PV-5 w/mods
    TT Conrad Johnson Sonographe SG3 Oak / Sumiko LMT / Grado Woodbody Platinum / Sumiko PIB2 / The Clamp
    Musical Fidelity A1 CDPro/ Bada DD-22 Tube CDP / Conrad Johnson SD-22 CDP
    Tuners w/mods Kenwood KT5020 / Fisher KM60
    MF x-DAC V8, HAInfo NG27
    Herbies Ti-9 / Vibrapods / MIT Shotgun AC1 IEC's / MIT Shotgun 2 IC's / MIT Shotgun 2 Speaker Cables
    PS Audio Cryo / PowerPort Premium Outlets / Exact Power EP15A Conditioner
    Walnut SDA 2B TL /Oak SDA SRS II TL (Sonicaps/Mills/Cardas/Custom SDA ICs / Dynamat Extreme / Larry's Rings/ FSB-2 Spikes
    NAD SS rigs w/mods
    GIK panels
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,648
    edited November 2011
    Yeah to me racks of CDs, flipping through books of them, knowing track numbers... CD covers, etc are awesome.

    I dont even know song names, I know track numbers... lol

    Ahhhhh CDs are great.
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited November 2011
    Vr3MxStyler2k3 wrote: »
    Yeah to me racks of CDs, flipping through books of them, knowing track numbers... CD covers, etc are awesome.

    I dont even know song names, I know track numbers... lol

    Ahhhhh CDs are great.
    I never learned track names until I went with a PC server/DAC setup. http://www.jriver.com/audio.html
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • SCompRacer
    SCompRacer Posts: 8,500
    edited November 2011
    Face wrote: »
    I never learned track names until I went with a PC server/DAC setup. http://www.jriver.com/audio.html

    10-4! It is both visual and sensual.:cheesygrin:
    Salk SoundScape 8's * Audio Research Reference 3 * Bottlehead Eros Phono * Park's Audio Budgie SUT * Krell KSA-250 * Harmonic Technology Pro 9+ * Signature Series Sonore Music Server w/Deux PS * Roon * Gustard R26 DAC / Singxer SU-6 DDC * Heavy Plinth Lenco L75 Idler Drive * AA MG-1 Linear Air Bearing Arm * AT33PTG/II & Denon 103R * Richard Gray 600S * NHT B-12d subs * GIK Acoustic Treatments * Sennheiser HD650 *
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  • erniejade
    erniejade Posts: 6,321
    edited November 2011
    I have a denon and a jolida slightly modded with EI tubes. the jolida on redbook sounds just as good if not better than my denon running sacd!

    Are you into sacd's at all?
    Klipsch The Nines, Audioquest Thunderbird Interconnect, Innuos Zen MK3 W4S recovery, Revolution Audio Labs USB & Ethernet, Border Patrol SE-I, Audioquest Niagara 5000 & Thunder, Cullen Crossover II PC's.
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited November 2011
    I second the Cambridge Azur 840.

    Also check out Raysonic: http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/auc.pl?dgtltran&1321589879
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,648
    edited November 2011
    Whats up Sean! It has been a long time since I have talked to you! Are you married yet and out of the country? lol

    Lots of good suggestions to look into for sure...

    Keep the feedback coming guys!
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • falconcry72
    falconcry72 Posts: 3,580
    edited November 2011
    Zero wrote: »
    Unless you already own a PC that is specifically built to deliver some two-channel goodness, I'd suggest to bypass the DAC idea and focus more on a traditional disc spinner. There are a number of good ones around around/under 1k. My money would go towards the NAD 565.

    What's a PC got to do with anything? I know other people suggested computer-based solutions, but I didn't. I suggested an external DAC purely for CD playback so that he could swap out the DAC and CD transport individually to get different sounds, plus I reckon that an $800 DAC plus a $200 transport will sound better than a $1000 CD player. Not every time, but the potential is there...
    2-Channel: PC > Schiit Eitr > Audio Research DAC-8 > Audio Research LS-26 > Pass Labs X-250.5 > Magnepan 3.7's

    Living Room: PC > Marantz AV-7703 > Emotiva XPA-5 > Sonus Faber Liuto Towers, Sonus Faber Liuto Center, Sonus Faber Liuto Bookshelves > Dual SVS PC12-Pluses

    Office: Phone/Tablet > AudioEngine B1 > McIntosh D100 > Bryston 4B-ST > Polk Audio LSiM-703's
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited November 2011
    Face wrote: »
    I never learned track names until I went with a PC server/DAC setup. http://www.jriver.com/audio.html

    needed pictures did you???

    RT1
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited November 2011
    So effin true.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited November 2011
    reeltrouble1 wrote: »
    needed pictures did you???

    RT1
    Mongo like pretty pictures. :cheesygrin:
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • organ
    organ Posts: 4,969
    edited November 2011
    Why don't you use your current cdp as a transport and spend that money on an external DAC?
    Take a look at some non-oversampling / filter-less DAC (NOS). They sound a lot different than modern DAC's. For me, going with a NOS DAC is one of the best move I ever made in audio. Don't know if it's your type of sound but just want to give a heads up on NOS DAC's. Worth a try imo.
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