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CDP with 2 sets of outputs?

Any cdp with ability to run 2 amps in a vertical bi-amp set-up.Prefer dual un-balanced outs but a mix of bal or un-bal
would be ok so as to expand choices.Sorry in advance if this is covered elsewhere.I tried searches with various ways of phrasing this question to no avail.Has any one tried this?Cables will be half meter.
clbeanz
clbeanz OP
192 posts
 
Seandtaylor99,Yikes!Forgot to put that in orig post.Yes to the volume control of those 2 sets of outs.Stehno would those Sony cdp's have that? Please excuse my confusion.
smotyka
62 posts
 
The Classe CDP .5 has a set of balanced & single ended outs.
stehno
1,453 posts
 
No problem, Clbeanz. These Sony's do not have any volume control.

I believe the Wadia 861 cdp has volume control but I don't know if it has dual outputs.

May I ask what amps you intend to use?

-IMO
tobias
1,534 posts
 
The Shanling CD-T100 CD player has 2 sets of outs that can be used simultaneously. One is tubed and the other solid state.
seandtaylor99
1,262 posts
 
It sounds to me like it might be an expensive player, to have two sets of outputs (and you'd really need two independant output stages, otherwise all you're really doing is using a splitter on a single output stage, which halves the input impedance seen by the CDP), and to have volume controls on both outputs. (Most CDPs I've seen have volume on one, and the other is fixed). I'm guessing several thousand dollars at least.

I wonder if you might not get better results for the same or less money with a less expensive CDP and a preamp ? Just a thought.
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