My Theta Miles is 13 years old and still going... I'm also looking to replace it for fear that it will die soon... I've done a ton of research and haven't come up with a cost-efficient alternative, unless one considers a Macintosh MCD350 at $5,500 cost-efficient (I don't.) Now add in my desire to put all my 1,000 plus CD collection on a hard drive, some 6 months ago, I bought the Bluesound Vault 2i. I was disappointed because the sound was not up to the Theta Miles, so I returned it. Fast forward to now, I talked to one tech who swears that if I combine the Bluesound Vault with a really good DAC, like the Chord Electronics Quest DAC it will sound every bit as good as the Theta, if not better. Trying to find anyone out there with that set up to see how good it is, I failed. I'm now thinking of getting both the Vault and the DAC and testing it out. I can always return it. Total for both is $3K about what the Theta costs back in the day. If I do that, I'll post my results here. Meanwhile, long live the Theta Miles!
Theta Miles CD player
I’ve had my Miles for about 20 years and still love the sound. I use it with its analog outputs and let the internal dac, do the conversion. Question- those of you who are familiar with this product-is there a new player that willl out perform this one? (I use the balanced outputs). If so, tell me your experiences.
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