My go to for CDs is a fully loaded Pioneer PD-F1009 300 + 1 unit. This thing is for outdoor listening with adult beverage and a cigar, for parties out by the pool, etc. It runs 1 bit DLC, has no other DAC and well, it feeds a mini-monster 120 w Pioneer and 4 Polk atrium 7s. Get compliments on this all the time. No plans to replace anytime soon!
Who is ditching their shiny disc spinners?
I want to upgrade my digital side … (currently Bluesound Vault 2i feeding the DAC of Oppo 105) … plan to spend around $2k … since I’ve ripped all my CDs to the Vault, thinking of spending it all on a DAC, and retire/sell the Oppo while it still has some value. I do have a few older CDPs I could retain as backup, but not sure why I would ever need.
Alternatively, was considering a better combined CDP/DAC like a newer Marantz or Yamaha … upgrades DAC performance some, and a reliable spinner for quite a few more years … but I have very few SACDs, so feeling like this would be the tail wagging the dog.
In what direction have you been migrating?
Alternatively, was considering a better combined CDP/DAC like a newer Marantz or Yamaha … upgrades DAC performance some, and a reliable spinner for quite a few more years … but I have very few SACDs, so feeling like this would be the tail wagging the dog.
In what direction have you been migrating?
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I made the decision to go to streaming. My CD player was broken. I gave up records long ago. It simply would cost too much to do all three media right. I find streaming to sound good. I spent about $1100 on a DAC and streamer. Big debate about buying higher end streamers and DACs. The Audio GD is all the rage lately. Denafrips Pontus, Audio Mirror are also good examples. So there are flavors AKA tubes. |
@johnspain I can relate, but I tried out the X45 and found it very interesting. I did not like the fit and finish too much, but did like main features - a biggie for me is simple access to “network shares” vs a requirement for a UPNP server running in yet another computer, or one that can run on the NAS (Minimserver is always recommended) but that makes a tosses salad of my music library… I’m testing the rave-reviewed Technics SL-G700 right now and the souls is quite good playing SACD/CD and streaming, but the controls are dismal - the app, remote control and tiny display all do disjointed things. And the thing here is getting any support is absent. Since it was an open-box unit it was an acceptable price-point, but is likely going back. This seems to be the state of the industry- disjointed, over-priced and disappointing. So I’m a “John’s pain” member also 😳 |
I'm from a vintage of when CD's took off in the mid 80's. The CD was a God send to the hifi music listening community. I adopted well and even sold off my LP's by 1987, built up much of my CD collection via Columbia House by keeping on resigning up for those 11 discs for $1 sort of thing. I fell back into vinyl in 2003 and went all in bananas, almost stopped listening to my CD's except for the car. I spent, cough cough pi$$ed away, way too much money riding the vinyl LP addiction I had. This realization that I was only buying LP's for sake of buying discs ( especially used) as all too many sat on shelves not really being played, coupled with now my mental math of the THOUSANDS of $$$$ I was spending on turntables, cartridges, phono preamps and cleaning gear/ machines, hit me hard mentally. I saw that I was just listening to gear and not music. From 2003 till 2019 I was ga ga on vinyl but the guilt of all the money I spent and most pi$$ed away hit me like a switch and turned me off my vinyl. I also pulled my out near 300 CD's I had siting and collecting dust in big CD binders and put them back into the jewel cases and on my software shelving. I began to thumb through the discs and played them on my current A/V set up and low an behold THEY SOUNDED FANTASTIC!. It was a refound pleasure of CD's I had ignored again accept for car playback since 2003. The ease of just placing a CD in one of my 3 players ( classic Philips CD -101, Oppo BDP-83 and Panasonic DVD Recorder) to then sit down and with a remote hit PLAY was so enamouring to me now. Out of essentially pure silence music flowed through my current A/V set up. Where as I for 18+ years chased to make my LP's sound clean and click free (never truly possible) as well as the effort to just spin an LP was yes for many years what I called it a ritual, became tiring when would switch from a CD to an LP. As cool as it was for many years to play LP's I did realize once I got back in to playing my CD's on my home system that when listening to LP's I always new I was listening to a vinyl record, no matter how clean and click free it was. But when listening to my CD's I found I was just listening to music. Now one can stream digital audio and get quality playback too, but again I am from a vintage of OWNING STUFF! Touchy feely things. The enjoyment of looking through my shelf of CD's and deciding which to pull out and play along with the CD booklet (some are very detailed other just slip sheets) sitting back in my seat a beverage in hand and just listening for what 45-60-80 minutes of uninterrupted music has become now my enjoyment, as when it was I bought my first CD player and CD's in 1984. So yes, for me I want to keep doing this and when I want to, just buy CD's when desiring to, to add to my collection. I may stream music when personally listening through headphones on my smart phone but at home I want the TOUCHY FEELY AND PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP! |
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