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CD Help

I'm having trouble with listening to my cd's at a reasonable vol. all of a sudden when i crank it up to about 11 o'clock everything just turns to MUSH! complete distortion, i don't have a dedicated cd player, i am using a cheap $200 sony dvd sacd etc which i bought at circuit city. Yes circuit city. I know, lets keep the comments to my problem. whcih that may be one. Anyway, i have a set of mirage OM-10's (4) for Ht use and a set of the Von Schweikert VR4 jr's that i use for 2 channel. Both speaker sets when i switch a-b are sounding distorted. Why the breakdown in sound. Damn this gets me. It really sounds like crap. HELP
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arkprof
182 posts
 
SACD can sound great, at least certain discs "sound great," but that isn't always the case, I'm afraid. Worse, SACD prices are considerably higher AND the selection may leave you unimpressed. I'd check this out before investing in the format.
hammergjh
157 posts
 
I'm thinking it's the amp, too.
chadnliz
3,736 posts
 
does that have line level outputs? is there any chance it is hooked up wrong?
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audphile1
4,401 posts
 
I would check out the Wadia player and would consider it probably over the Marantz. Also look at used ARC CD3.
henryhk
648 posts
 
Arkprof observations are true but then you can same thing for any format in terms of not always sounding great. Depends on the recording engineering as always: what DSD and thus SACD does allows for more potential for the recording engineer and thus us. I would recommend looking for a CD/SACD player but given SACD titles are not nearly enough, make sure you make reg redbook play back quality the guiding principle for auditioning: then you have SACD capability to explore as an add on. What is your price range?
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