Wadia 861 SE or 581 SE.

Which player sounds better on cd only prior to mods.? It seems hard to believe that anything that plays SACD could do cd as well as a dedicated player. Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks

sm272704-11-2008 10:38pm

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frankpiet Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 307 posts 04-25-2008 at 05:44pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Hi. I´ve had (one of) the first GNSC Reference Level modded 581 and compared it extensively to Wadia 861 SE - the modded 581 came out as a CLEAR winner. The US $ 13.000,00 that were mentionned above are very well invested. Build quality of Wadia is second to none in digital audio. By the way: mine had a metal remote too ;-)
frankpiet Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 307 posts 04-30-2008 at 07:46pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete the 861se was unmodded - but was nearly equal in price to the modded 581

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