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Can best optical player rival best computer source

I know there are better and worse computer based music servers as well as universal players and transports feeding dacs. There are now many players with digital inputs. My question is best versus best. Optical readers have to read and move on. Ripping to a hard drive can use software that repeatedly tries to get a good read.

Can the best player rival the best computer source?
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audiofreak32
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Using a LINN Akurate with WAV and FLAC files (24/192) ripped from dbPoweramp, you will be very, very hard pressed to beat this sound from ANY cd player made. It would be in the 10's of thousands at least in order to even start to compare.
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David12:

"discless" as you call it has better sound than most CD players just due to the nature of CD's moving parts, spinning disc, etc. Any decent DAC fed with hi-res files will trash most any CD player out there. I have heard DAC setups playing 24/96k and 24/192k FLAC or WAV costing under $3k hammer CD players at $10k or more.

Digital is very much caught up to and exceeded CD playback already.
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