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What are the advantages of tubes in a CD Player?

.....and are they better than solid state CD Players? I have had a few players. Rega Apollo, NAD 542, and a Cambridge Audio (actually a DVD Player). I loved the Apollo, but thought I wanted to go to a complete Computer Audio system so I sold it. Now I am contemplating buying another player. I hear the tube sound is so warm and non-digital sounding, which is why I bought the Apollo, well that and the look of it. So, should I go tubes this time? I was looking at that Raysonic 128 and the Shanling and maybe even the Consonance Droplet
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narrod
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Of the ones you mentioned I prefer the Apollo. Tubes, properyly implemented, can help digital. Having tubes doesn't make it automatically better than a solidstate player. You have to listen.
chadnliz
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Many tube players use a tube buffer stage similar to simply adding a Musical Fidelity "Tube Buffer" to an existing Solid State player at much less cost.
restless_times OP
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it will be hard to beat that sound at that pricepoint. The Consonance is 3K although a new one is on here right now at 2200. I have to admit, it is the look of the Raysonic and the Consonance that first got my attention.
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