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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
tommylion OP
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Why limit oneself to only one format?

Because you prefer to invest your limited resources in getting the best sound you can from one format, rather than mediocre sound from several.
teo_audio
2,197 posts
 
Norm has a fix for that: he rebuilds and mods out gear, all the time. :)
tommylion OP
874 posts
 
Wish I had the talent & skills to do that 😕
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danvignau
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I have not found a streamin service that offers the sound of a great CD player with a well mixed recording. Can anyone confirm that the 0's and 1's from a streamer are identicle to the ones on a CD. I have not heard anything to make itcseem so.
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georgehifi
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I have yet to hear a streamer demo'ed to me, sound better in an a/b than good hi-end cdp playing the same album.
I would think that error correction with streaming would be much more, because it's got to come from anywhere in the world via the net. There's got to be some loses of those 1's and 0's.
Also streamers usually have smp power supplies, these them selves are massive noise polluters, and infiltrate everything
Then there's the hard drive for storage, these also error correct and are also powered by smp's.
  
At least with a cd the 1's and 0's are stamped into it bit perfect, and the only thing that can do damage are cheap lasers, they seem to error correct more than good ones.

Cheers George  
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