AMR 77.1 cd player and your thoughts

Teajay,
Your AMR sounded rotten? Mine sounds great -- right out of the box. Maybe your unit needs some break-in time.

Sabai, I do not believe he owns an AMR dac ()and in his defense I do not believe he ever claimed to own that line of gear :). I believe the listening session referred to was a stop at my uncles house for all of 15 minutes to pick up some audio items he had purchased. We went through NO filter selection and NO other dac was placed in the system as I had JUST finished installing the new tube amps in that system (tube amps cold out of the box). My uncle and I were listening to the sound of his cold brand new amps as I had broken the AMR in for him weeks ago. The AMR (at that point in time) was a known quantity, known to sound FABULOUS!!! (can I use that word)...ok I will leave that alone LOL!!!
This was not a listening session, at no time did he sit down to listen intently or actually attempt to assess anything. He came in spoke I got the other amp setup and we hit play on the Mac.., he stood around for about 1 to 2 minutes as he had things to do. So there you have it.

I know because I was THERE... Listen I don't care if someone hates the thing, I hate the sound of the Weiss Minerva.., BUT it (the Weiss) was in MY HOUSE in MY SYSTEM and I listened intently whilst comparing it to my former Bidat and MSB Power dac which I owned at the same time.

I hate to say this but I suspect something else is afoot regarding the slamming of AMR.

I will follow up on this and say that my DP 777 SE with an Audio Magic Ultimate Bees wax fuse and the following audio chain:
Mac Mini with Uptone Audio LPS replacement board and the Uptoone Audio LPS power supply/ ifi Audio Gemni 3.0 USB cable -> iFi audio iUSB 3.0 (fed power from the Uptone audio LPS, the LPS has 2 DC outputs so one powers the Mac the other powers the iUSB 3.0) -> iFi Audio Gemini 3.0 usb cable -> iFi audio iPurier 2 -> AMR DP 777 SE.

The mac is running HQ Player (It took weeks to configure the correct (perfect sounding) filter selection as it is a complex piece of software) under Roon.

That digital combinaton routinely equals or surpasses my second analog rig (at this level it is dependent upon the mastering of the LP and CD). It does not matter if it CD/DSD files or hi res PCM. I was converting everything to 176.4k via HQ Players incredible SRC (Never ever heard a SRC I liked hardware or software until HQ Player). The designer of HQ Player and myself got into a bit concernign sample rate conversion :) via email. We are cool now :) and it is the best audio engine I have yet to experiene with PureMusic coming in second place.

I now convert everything to 16/44.1k to take advantage of the DP777 se’s quad core ladder dac and it is superior to my ears.

The analog rig that I have been compairing consists of my SL-1200 GAE/London Ref/Luxman EQ 500 with Amperex Bugle Boy 12au7’s, (4) AMR Gold MK 2 fuses and (1) Audio Magic Ultimate Bees wax fuse, a Mullard NOS EZ81 rectifier, an Ortofon 6NX rca to rca 6 9’s copper phono cable (an underrated and superb cable) and appropriate vibraton control.

Both sound sublime, but my digital would stop many people from investing in analog unless they owned an existing nice sized vinyl collection.

Even my Bidat played using Roons application on my iPad and selecting the iPad as the endpoint (this is blutooth connected via the iFi iOne and feeding an iFi SPDIF iPurifier into my Bidat) sounds phenomental and this is my lowly bedroom system .

All I am saying is that between my AMR CD77.1/ DP 777 SE they represent the finest digital I have yet to experience and yes this include the CH Presision and DCS Vivaldi (BUT those units were not in my home, so take that as you will).

I use my tricked out R2R with safety masters as the ulitmate reference, so I think I am ok in my assessments.