Differences between cd transports?

The Hegel has a built in DAC, and apparently it's really good (I've never used it!!)

@geoffkait Since not a single high end wire company I know has an electron microscope and since you freely admit they don't make their own wire, how would they know the directionality of the cable? Cable is spooled and respooled so many times before it arrives there. Each time this happens, the direction get reversed. I spent my Friday evening playing with cables. I tested Cardas, Kimber, Canare with a $1K Fluke AC ohm meter good to more zeros than would make any difference to a human ear. Zero difference in either direction. None. As in zero difference. Always shows same numbers, down to .5 digits.

Let me guess, the ancient cables weren't burnt in enough. 

Only way to figure out which way the cable was pulled via the dies would be an electron microscope. At one point in my life, I had an Elionix sitting in my basement, but I highly doubt a single cable company would be willing to compromise their marketing department by throwing a cool half a million just to figure out which way the spool was run.

Possible mental health alert: Geoffkait (or Kaitty) has utterly lost his ability to recognize a satirical post, or his reading comprehension doesn’t work if he fails to re-post a comment he’s responding to. I’ll re-post this part for his sake:
"And if all of those little wires and board traces are directional, isn’t the sum of all of it working together resulting in directionality chaos? And if it is, why can things still sound fine?"

Kaitty...please...turn up your oxygen...something...I’ll try another rhetorical question: Does Dennis Had, who made my hand wired power amp, know which direction the allegedly directional internal wires are pointed? Wait...that’s not a rhetorical question, it’s a question I know the answer to. The answer is no. However, the amp sounds great anyway...mysteries abound...

astelmaszek93 posts03-09-2019 1:56am@geoffkait Since not a single high end wire company I know has an electron microscope and since you freely admit they don’t make their own wire, how would they know the directionality of the cable? Cable is spooled and respooled so many times before it arrives there. Each time this happens, the direction get reversed. I spent my Friday evening playing with cables. I tested Cardas, Kimber, Canare with a $1K Fluke AC ohm meter good to more zeros than would make any difference to a human ear. Zero difference in either direction. None. As in zero difference. Always shows same numbers, down to .5 digits.

Let me guess, the ancient cables weren’t burnt in enough.

Only way to figure out which way the cable was pulled via the dies would be an electron microscope. At one point in my life, I had an Elionix sitting in my basement, but I highly doubt a single cable company would be willing to compromise their marketing department by throwing a cool half a million just to figure out which way the spool was run.

>>>>>Don’t be such a negative Nellie, astromatzl. The reason I use the expression “controlled for directionality” is because cable companies like Audioquest have figured out how to ensure the wires are in the correct orientation when the cable has been completely assembled and the directional arrows have been applied. 🔜 🔜 it’s not really rocket science. 🚀 There are a number of ways to control the whole process, from the time the wire comes out of the final die, to when the wire is put on the spool destined for the cable company. All it takes is a little coordination. The wire manufacturer could mark the end of the wire with red tape to show direction for the entire spool. Or measure the difference in resistance for a length of wire taken off the spool. See if you can guess which resistance value indicates the correct direction. 🔛  In the case of fuses, most are not controlled for directionality so the end user must try the fuse both ways and use his ears.

“Since not a single high end wire company I know has an electron microscope...”

>>>>>Why do I get the feeling you actually don’t know any high end wire companies?

wolf_garcia4,662 posts03-09-2019 3:15amPossible mental health alert: Geoffkait (or Kaitty) has utterly lost his ability to recognize a satirical post, or his reading comprehension doesn’t work if he fails to re-post a comment he’s responding to. I’ll re-post this part for his sake:
"And if all of those little wires and board traces are directional, isn’t the sum of all of it working together resulting in directionality chaos? And if it is, why can things still sound fine?"

>>>>>See, that’s what makes it this all so funny. What you perceive as satire or irony is actually reality. I’m pretty sure we covered board traces and why they aren’t directional in the last class. Your “satirical post” is true, all wires are directional, so ultimately everything should be controlled for directionality. See the irony? 

”And if it is, why can things still sound fine?"

>>>>>>Everything sounds fine to you so what’s the difference? 😳