ML drawer can be quirky.Sometimes does not open or opens halfway only.Doesnt happen to often.Proceed CDD had the same problem,repaired by dealer for free.Despite of this still think ML a good buy used.To expensive new.Only 390s now available new.New Transport will be multiformat.Sadly a sign of the times.
Mark Levinson transports
Hi Folks:
I am not a fan of any equipment that this company makes (build quality excellent - sound not to my liking), with one exception. The 390S cd player. Even saying that I still won't buy it. Too neutral and not quite as "rhythmic" and "energetic" as a stand alone player in my comparison with other things. Yet it's capability of detail retrival in recordings, coupled with a very large soundstage, makes it astonishlingly good.
The argument about whether an outside transport really makes a difference versus a quality one box solution will always go on. What hasn't changed in my sound preference has been dacs by Musical Fidelity. So my question is whether you feel the "neutrality" of the Levinson transports such as the 31.5 and 37, would actually be a good match with another companies processor. I used to think that the dac was about 90% of the equation. A demo from Audio-Note earlier this year convinced me otherwise.
I am also wondering how the 31.5 and 37 match in terms of performance with the 390S in transport mode?
Thank you for reading.
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