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Audiophile Changer: Cool or Hopeless Compromise?

Hello again everyone. It is great to be back to this site. Having owned and sold a Levinson 31 (sounded fine but didn't REALLY do it for me) I am finally going back to analogue and perhaps, a SONY SCD-1.

For general every day listening of my 2-300 CDs, however, it would be wonderfully convenient to have them in a changer. Is anyone taking a digital output from one of these things and running it through an external D/A, for example an ARC DAC-1 or DAC2 with decent results? Which changer transport is the best? CD or DVD/multi? And can someone please explain "upsampling"? In my experience, I have never really been transported by anything digital. I am waiting to be converted but in the mean time, would just love to conveniently enjoy a few hundred CDs without getting a migraine or thinking that reading a magazine or watching cable would be more satisfying. Thanks for you ideas and advice. Happy holidays to everyone.
cwlondon
sedond
1,387 posts
 
aiwa seems like it may be a good mate to my "serious engineering anomaly" art di/o. :>) anyone know if it offers coax digital output, or can be modded by stan warren to do so?

thanks, doug s.

sugarbrie
3,854 posts
 
You would have to call Stan about the coax output. I would think he could do it, because part of his mod is to remove the optical output termination on the back of the player and hard wire a differenct digital cable. I see no reason he could not do the same thing but use a Coax output.
zaikesman
3,017 posts
 
Although I presume you are talking about a "jukebox"-type rather than a 5-disc changer like mine, I can recommend using a Monarchy Audio DIP in between, as I do with my Adcom GCD-700 changer and Theta DSPro Basic IIIa DAC. It seems to largely ameliorate the most glaring shortcomings of a low-budget transport when used with a good digital interconnect (mine is Cardas Lightning). I'm able to run a S/PDIF output from the Adcom, but you may have to use a Toslink into the DIP, then take coax or balanced out to the DAC.
cwlondon OP
1,210 posts
 
Thank you everyone. I am talking about a "jukebox" type set up -- the 5 disc changers don't really help me. More specific advice on 100 + changers would be most helpful, as would any explanations/suggstions on upsampling.
sedond
1,387 posts
 
cw, any jukebox cd-player w/digital outputs can *still* be used w/an art di/o dac; i still recommend this. search di/o or dio on a-gon and audio asylum's digital forum for more info about it...

doug s.

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