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Join Us over on the Thiel Owners thread. Good to see another CS 2.4 fan.
Happy Listening!
Join Us over on the Thiel Owners thread. Good to see another CS 2.4 fan.
Happy Listening!
Advice needed re: new CD player purchase
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Reliability and for parts, as they say in sports, "The best ability is availability" are important considerations. Since you last shopped this category disc drive demand has crashed harder than a Keith Moon cymbal. Bryston's 20 year life maxim tips the scales their direction. I haven't heard a Bryston CD player in years, and have no opinion about the sound of the unit under consideration, but I bet in ten years it will be more likely to be "on the road" than a Jay's or other newcomer. Cheers, Spencer |
Nearly everyone is telling me to get a good transport with appropriate digital output, and a separate DAC. Then you can also use the DAC for streaming as well as SACD/CD Play. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/better-cd-sound-the-search No matter what, the drawer has to open/close; CD has to spin and be read: belts get worn; internal moving parts get dirty or lube gets sticky and lasers get old/weak or out of alignment and no longer read the discs. I checked date of manufacture and availability of replacement parts when considering. I want a combination of single and changer. Space considerations, and no desire to stream, I am staying with a units with internal DAC(s). Cost considerations I am going used. I researched, determined I wanted dual DACs and decided to try one with Burr Brown DACs; another with Wolfson DACs. Denon 2910 arrived played erratically for 2 days, then Laser couldn't find the discs at all. New laser arrives Monday, fingers crossed. It plays SACD and CD. Integra CDC-3.4 changer does not play SACD, I found one made in 2019, it arrives this coming Friday. Belts and Lasers are currently available. Many units are missing remotes, I limit choices to units with remotes, and it if breaks, replacement remotes available. Even then: sometimes an unidentified change is made, and a different remote used. Integra used one remote until they issued Mark 2 with a different remote. suffix letter M after the serial # means mark 2, otherwise there is no way of knowing mark 2 exists. It took me many emails to get that answer. |