On the face of it, a pertinent question but remember I said the Chesky disc was far worse than other CDs. So you can deduce the player paid other CDs satisfactorily. To answer your question the player was a Wada 16, an expensive leading high-end CD player at the time. CDs did play much better on it than on cheapo Japanese tin boxes. The Wadia was my first CD player. I have only had one other, an Audio Research CD9. It is a good bit better than the Wadia. |
Reference Recordings ... https://referencerecordings.com/ try ... https://referencerecordings.com/recording/bernstein-candide-suite/ Anything on LINN ... especially any of the Kuniko marimba recordings ... https://www.linnrecords.com/artist-kuniko
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@clearthinker yes the Wadia 16 had 1702 DAC chips every player that I owned or listened to with 1702 had a hardness and almost brightness to the top end. I picked a Wadia six because it had k63 DAC chips the Wadia 15 I believe had those chips as well if I remember correctly. To bad you never owned a player with the Ulta analog DAC chips in it.
Remember you cannot judge q whole label by one recording either.
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@nonoise I feel like I had been living under the rocks.. All these great options.. I am struggling to curb my itch to move from the D03X to D10X.. I need intervention.. |
