All this tech-talk tends to get in the way of enjoying the music. I use the Musical Fidelity Nu-Vista CD player and digital hub for all my digital equipment. It has one bullet-proof Nuvistor tube per channel and sounds, well , very musical indeed, Beautiful casework, too.
Accessible, yet elite sounding, musical CD machines. Current vs next upgrade
I’d like to start a thread of musical, all out CD transports and players, in leu of the physical media’s resurrection in the hifi world.
I use a TEAC PD-507T. For its external clock input and tried-and-true drive mechanism and chassis engineering. This CD drive mech. is arguably one of the best designs in the industry, which is why you see so many high end transports with TEAC trays. But the 507t lacks tubes and i2s input….
I’ve been drooling over the Triode TRV-CD6se. For its magnificent 6922 preamp tubes in a tube buffer output stage, AND IT HAS i2s!!!
Now the tube buffer won’t be included in the i2s output path, you have to choose either the tube output through the Burr-Brown chips, or a digital transport over i2s, but how cool!? What is everyone using currently and what’s in your upgrade chamber ?
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As an aside mod wright, musical fidelity,and chi fi make tube buffers you can put anywhere. So you may get a fine cd player and add the buffer. I have alot of tube cd players ar cd9,cary audio 306 200 has 8 burr brown chips,mcintosh 12000 tube or solid state,cary audio 600? I think.older california audio tech,technology, I have also bought newer modles under 2k. Have 20 spinners i have collected over the years. Some musical fidelity has tube like new sisters. Enjoy the science and the search. My prima Luna has a tube as the clock and does not sound bad. Do love the transport in my esoteric. |
I had a 35 year old Sony professional CDP and it sounded great, even better than my 0ppo. But unfortunately it died and being 35, no one would work on it, so I figured that with streaming becoming a bigger part of my life, I would cheap out and I bought an Audiolab 6000CDT and haven’t looked back. It gets used at least twice a week and except for being a slot loader, I like it a lot. |
@richardbrand my apologies. When used like this, native HDMI, as with USB, the DAC buffers and reclocks the data, avoiding the possible jitter issues of I2S. |
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