I believe there has to be a "perfect storm" of sorts for everything that can go wrong does. And when it does, just get another and better made CDP. What I hear from my Marantz SA15S2b is nothing to sneeze at. It's some of the most sublime music I've heard.
Audio shows that use computer or streaming audio never won me over. It all sounded like really good to just okay FM. It spanned the gamut from edgy and shrill to milquetoast. Successfully getting music to play seemed to be the great accomplishment, not the quality.
It's kind of like you too can be your own DJ/radio host and tinker with all the settings and lose the forest for the trees with the forest being the music and the enjoyment you get and the trees that distract you being the hardware.
I'm just too old skool as for me it's plop it and play it.
The only computer rig that floored me was an MSB demo that turned out to be their CD player playing in their system. Vince Galbo just smiled when he told me after I said it was the best computer audio I've heard.
With new CD sleds out there like the Blue Tiger, CD is far from dead. They claim they can get more data in a more secure way to pass it down/out to the DAC. We don't have to rely on older tech and a diminishing supply of good quality sleds.
All the best,
Nonoise
Audio shows that use computer or streaming audio never won me over. It all sounded like really good to just okay FM. It spanned the gamut from edgy and shrill to milquetoast. Successfully getting music to play seemed to be the great accomplishment, not the quality.
It's kind of like you too can be your own DJ/radio host and tinker with all the settings and lose the forest for the trees with the forest being the music and the enjoyment you get and the trees that distract you being the hardware.
I'm just too old skool as for me it's plop it and play it.
The only computer rig that floored me was an MSB demo that turned out to be their CD player playing in their system. Vince Galbo just smiled when he told me after I said it was the best computer audio I've heard.
With new CD sleds out there like the Blue Tiger, CD is far from dead. They claim they can get more data in a more secure way to pass it down/out to the DAC. We don't have to rely on older tech and a diminishing supply of good quality sleds.
All the best,
Nonoise