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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?
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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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lalitk
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@georgehifi 

In my system, the combination of Aurender N10 and ARC DAC9 sounds just as good as my CD player. Of course, I end up spending close to twice as much to rival the performance of my CD player :-)

I love spinning my CD's to this day but I can't help appreciate the the sheer convenience and accessibility of ever growing Tidal streaming catalog. 

Cheers!

tubes444
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Analog to>digital DAC to analog is the GAME.
Remove 101% of any Jitter an and error’s an your about a close to a Nirvana playback for now. Today you may need to SPEND 10K++ on a DAC or streamer that may come close.

But if your not sure about your CD player or Music streamer.
Here's A TIP. Buy (2) Audio Quest Jitter bugs. Insert one in your Cd player or a stand along DAC. One in your Streamer.in there open USB ports. No in-feed signal required. I would be amiss if your don’t notice an improvement.
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georgehifi
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You can’t remove 100% any errors, as they are filled in with guess work by the error correction. And the more the errors the more the wrong info is being given back.

Cheers George
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