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CD/Transport W/ External DAC

I have been using my cd player(carin fog) as a transport and has since died and gone to cd heaven. I was and will be using a Benchmark Dac1 as the Dac. My Question is there a sonic diference in using a cheap cdp under $1000 vs one in the $2000 range if it will only be used as a transport.
Thanks for your help
faziod
faziod OP
151 posts
 
Lak or Jayctoy do you know CECs web address?
drrdiamond
671 posts
 
Ipy is right!! The cost of proper support is essential, especially with a CDP or transport.

I bought the Marantz SA-14 SACD player. After LONG breakin, it was very good, but not great. I then was advised and bought the Nueance Platform to place under it, and bingo, it turned into maybe the best player that I have experienced. It blew away my older Krell/EAD combo.

Contact:
http://www.neuanceaudio.com/index.html

or:
Ken at:
greaterranges@msn.com

Richard
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lak
4,751 posts
 
http://www.cec-international.de/pages/s1.htm

Also available at WWW.Audiovisor.com (I think)

Do a search in Audiogan or AA discussion and look for the best pricing you can find.
pops
2,283 posts
 
Yep, an upgrade in my transport made one of the biggest improvements of any upgrade I ever made.
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rx8man
1,484 posts
 
I'll jump in and say I agree with Jayctoy and Lak, I just picked up a mint TL-2X, made a pretty significant difference in presentation, easeful, relaxed and smooth as silk, put a King Cobra V-1 power cord on it and talk about soundstage, this is what I was looking for to round out the rest of my rig.
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