LINN Akurate DS vs. ANY CD PLAYER


Is there anyone who has actually compared a LINN Akurate DS with 24/96 and/or 24/192 WAV or FLAC files to a CD player and preferred the CD player? If so, what CD player was it.

Just interested.

The opinion of my dealer is that you would need to spend 10's of thousands on a CD player to even compete with an Akurate DS.
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I see what you are saying... if the recording is not very good, the DS will just project that bad recording through the resy of the system.

My Akurate DS is the latest version with the Dynamik PS. I only paid around $5,500 for a demo unit, would have been tougher to pay the full price - I would have gone with a Majik DS or DSi then. But even at full price, I am thinking that you will have to pay so much more with a traditional CD player to even approach this level of sonics. It sounds far better than any CD player I have owned and I have access to over 8,000 songs on my iPad - how can you beat that?