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best digital set up 2006

After looking at so many posts that are old let's start fresh. There has been so many improvements in the recent years that I imagine that yesteryear products no longer can compete with what's new. What are the best players or dac / transport combos today. Regardless of price, this way no matter what your price point something can be found for all budgets. Ideally I want the best possible playback for under $2000. used.
pedrillo
sdatch
204 posts
 
Shandorne, one point about SACD and DVD-A for that matter: in terms of "purist" audio quality I agree that the improvement may be open to debate, and I know I wouldn't want to risk my life savings on a DBT. However, those 2 technologies DID bring along multi-channel audio for music reproduction, which is an improvement over stereo, if done right. Unfortunately in a world where most listening tales place in a car or via earbuds, the chance of commercial success for audio only surround sound was about as good as qudraphonic. But hey, someday I'll get to tell my kids about the format wars...
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213cobra
885 posts
 
Save yourself some space and grief with transport-to-DAC cabling. Try an NAD Master Series M55 Universal player. $1800 new and it's really that good. Redbook sound is way beyond its price range, SACD is what you would expect, DVD-Audio is remarkable. This unit is a new standard under $5,000.

Phil
agaffer
256 posts
 
For the best, especially under $2000. Forget about any transport. Start with a hard drive, cd players are for cars. It took a long time for people to get rid of their tape decks and switch to cd players. The same thing is going on with cd players v.s. hard drives.
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