nordicnorm
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| Sleeper CD player DAC CD player - Esoteric DV50S New, it sold for $6,000. You can now pick one up used for ~$1,000.Even cheaper is the Sony S9000ES that you usually find for under $300.As for DACs, the Teac UD-501 can be found used for ~$500. In the higher end, you can... | |
| Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use? I had a modded Shanling T-80 CDP (tubes, opamps and capacitors) that sounded very close to vinyl.I now use an Esoteric DV-50S that, while not as warm-sounding as the Shanling, is much more detailed. | |
| Richard Clark $10,000 Amplifier Challenge - Why Couldn't Anyone Pass this Test?? @geoffkait wrote: " Is A Stradivarius Violin Easier To Hear? Science Says Nope"Maybe not to the average listener, but to a trained, professional violinist? Yes, absolutely! Many years ago I worked at the Banff Centre, which is where professional ... | |
| What's the best non-DAC CD player? The Cambridge Audio CXC (~$450) is pretty highly regarded: https://www.whathifi.com/cambridge-audio/cxc/reviewEdit: Ooops! Just read your last post! Congrats on your find! Update us on your thoughts regarding your new system once it's all set up a... | |
| New Release CD Players $1000 - $1500 With the number of stunning sounding DACs under $1,000 now on the market, it doesn’t make sense to invest so much money in a CD player (in this price range, at any rate)?Buying a stand-alone DAC and a CDP to use as a transport allows you more opti... | |
| What are you using to rip your cds to a hard drive? JRiver Media Centre 20 | |
| Your Nominations: Top Phono Stages under $1,000 For $1,000, the Croft RIAA phono stage is hard to beat. | |
| Time for a new tube system. Considering your speakers, maybe consider a hybrid tube amp?I'd recommend Blue Circle amps.Here's a pair of Blue Circle Audio AG-8000 monoblocks for $5,998. * Four separate chassis: 2 monaural amplifiers, each with its own separate external powe... | |
| Need Power Amp advice This Aragon is a hell of a deal!Aragon 4004 MkII $850- dual mono- 200w/2 @ 8 Ω, 400w/2 @ 4 Ω, stable down to 1 Ω - known as the poor man's Krell | |
| Need help ... You have a good system. Your best bet for improvements are room treatments and cables. | |
| Dac: Does anyhting beat the Schiit Gungnir Multibit (Gumby) in the same price range? Mmmm.. difficult question to answer.'Different' is easy, but 'better'? That's highly subjective.In that price range, I like both the Teac UD-503 and Yulong Sabre DA8 MKII (distributed through Grant Fidelity). | |
| what to do with 1000+ CD's, many imports and live concerts Another option is to get the collection appraised and then donate it to a local college or university music program or library.This will ensure that the collection will continue to be enjoyed by future generations.And you should, at least, be able... | |
| Looking For Neutral Tube Amp Recommendation It would be worth your while to audition Coincident 211PP Dragon MK. II monoblock amplifiers. $11,000 new but I've seen them sell for less than half of that on the used market (although they don’t surface very often).- all hard-wired- 75W (Class A... | |
| Amps from the 1980's -- What gear holds up sonically? Reliably? Yamaha MX100001,200 W @ 1 Ω (class A) | |
| Looking for CD player recommendations that are a great match with Classe & Vandersteen Best value under $1,000 right now in CD/SACD players is the Esoteric DV-50S. |