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Who listens primarily to Redbook CD?

My primary (only, actually) source is a CEC TL5 Transport feeding an Audio Note Kit 1.1 NOS DAC through a Cerious Technologies Graphene Extreme AES/EBU digital cable. They are both decked out with CT GE power cords, Synergistic Research Quantum Black fuses, Herbie's Audio Lab Tenderfeet isolation footers, plus other misc. tweaks.

Sounds great, and I have very little desire to add another source. Pretty much all the music I want is available on CD, and is usually quite cheap. I hope to upgrade to an AN factory DAC (3.1x/II, or better, would be nice), and a Teo Audio liquid metal digital cable (I have their Game Changer ICs, and absolutely love them!) in the future.

Who else is happy with Redbook CD as their primary source?
tommylion
ab2ab
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alexatpos' response in favor of RBCD:
"There is also a matter of owning (holding it) the actual product.."

Thanks for this comment as I wholeheartedly agree! 

nitewulf
437 posts
 
Pretty much most of us I think. But all my files are ripped into my PC as lossless. And also a huge vinyl collection.
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dynaquest4
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I was raised on vinyl.  I remember I was so poor in college I had no records or player of my own...but my roommates usually did - the set where the speakers would fold out and the turntable would fold down.  Once I graduated and had a job, building my record collection was a priority.  In those days guys would come over and see you collection and go through it. They would invariably say something like: "Dude...cool...you have the new Three Dog Night album, can we play it? " Except the address "Dude" hadn't been invented yet.

So my point is that it was a cool thing to have your "collection" on display for visitors to see...even after the switchover to CDs.  I miss that.  While I love the efficiency of quickly scrolling to find any CD I have on FLAC via my Oppo 105D with attached hard drive, I miss the collection display.


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georgehifi
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I bought an Esoteric K-01X a year ago and since then I have rediscovered all my Red Book CD’s.
I’m not sure but I think that’s maybe because like it’s predecessor the earlier X-01, it uses 8 x PCM1704 R2R mulitbit dacs for Redbook conversion.

And the X in the K-01X may designate that it also has a Delta Sigma (bitstream) dac to do SACD with.

ESOTERIC X-01: A killer Redbook player

8 x PCM1704 – SM5847AF – SM5819AF: VRDS-NEO Transport.

X-01

http://www.hifi-advice.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/esoteric-p01_vrds-neo-trans_464pix.jpg

http://www.soundstage.com/equipment/pics/200906_esoteric_x01_800w.jpg

K-01X

http://www.esoteric.jp/products/esoteric/k01x/img/f_photo02.jpg

http://www.my-hiend.com/audiotemp/2015/photo/5.7K01X/K01X0046.jpg


Cheers George




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2psyop
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I have many cds and have been buying them since 1984 since about the time Sony and Phillips introduced the first players. I have always liked red book cds. I have two cd players, an older Sony ES model and a Rega Apollo. With both, I can update external DACs as I wish, and I have as they get better and better. As I think about the first DACs, and the terribly harsh sound they produced I have witnessed and heard the sound quality increase tremendously.

I will admit, I have ripped music to a HDD and I have added a Bluesound Node 2. I am playing music from a HDD feeding the Bluesound music server. Nevertheless, I hope to keep playing CDs, since I have been using CDs for over 25 years.
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