Is this a deal or what ....


Somebody was selling Wadia 7/9 for $5800, a few years old top CD Player from Wadia, it cost 25-27k$ just a few years ago, some believe it is better then 270/27 combo, some that it is best planet Earth CD player.
So why people are selling it for 1/3 or bellow prices, is it so obsolete, are the newer famous players so much better (Audiomeca, AudioAreo) ?
Have somebody ever compared them (AA clan) to this once crazy expensive players. What is going on?
Am I missing something or do not know something?
sorlowski

Showing 1 response by marakanetz

I think getting Cambridge D500SE demo $325 from audioadvisor(30 days free trial!) is much better deal nowdays. DACs chips become cheaper and cheaper so as computers do. Newer DACs are easier to filter and they're more precise than previous ones.
The only thing is not clear how player with CD-rom drive and DAC-chips $50 each can cost $25...27k or even than reduced to $5k??

I directly compared Cambridge D500SE with Capitole II and found differences only in output level Capitole had a-bit higher than Cambrige(hence the distortions might be less but not to the level to spend $7k instead of $300 for sure).