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?

tommylion06-08-2017 8:13am

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georgehifi Details Discussions Posts This discussion 10,312 posts 06-17-2017 at 11:43pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete 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
2psyop Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,617 posts 06-18-2017 at 01:12am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete 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.
rhyno Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 649 posts 06-18-2017 at 12:55pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete thats one of the top reasons: collection on display. if not from the personal satisfaction i get from seeing my virtually complete May 77 grateful dead catalog, then it comes from when i (as a single man) have women over and ask them to pick out something to listen to. they have to stand up on tip toes to read A-B they have to bend over to read N-S that alone keeps me from ever going to PC audio.
gdhal Details Discussions Posts This discussion 1,641 posts 06-18-2017 at 01:22pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @rhyno thats one of the top reasons: collection on display Interesting, because this is one of the top reasons I DO NOT continue to collect (acquire new via purchase or burn to via digital file and computer software) Redbook CD’s I have 3500 Grateful Dead CD’s. That is basically 3.5 terabytes of data. I have 6 Terabytes of Grateful Dead on a Western Digital My Book Duo external hard drive. The CD’s take approximately 16 cubic feet of space. The my book duo takes approximately 1/4 cubic feet of space.
geoffkait Details Discussions Posts This discussion 23,365 posts 06-18-2017 at 01:23pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete CDs on hold. Cassettes have precedence. Sound has Priority.