Mark levinson 30.5 and 31.5 vs todays cd playerrs

Aolmrd
What does a Whest Audio Dap-10 do to the analog signal coming out of your DAC that causes the improvement?

12-14-07: Sgunther
Aolmrd
What does a Whest Audio Dap-10 do to the analog signal coming out of your DAC that causes the improvement?

Try here,Whest can explain better than me...

http://www.whestaudio.co.uk/s-product-list.asp?m=1

Noticed how Levinson dacs still sell rather quickly? I had a #36 a few years ago and still wish I had it.

THE levinson reference components you have are NOT dry sounding. some of the very best and most expensive of today's players will resolve more information, but having owned a 360s/37 combo, i feel levinson led the way in redbook-cd realism for quite a while. alot of people have never even sat down and listened to the ML gear at length (of course $26K or even $11K retail is not within alot of people's reach), which i feel leads to alot of the negative comments on audiogon about how crummy cd's sound. but now you can get a used ML-390S cdp for under $4k, and it's still an awfully good player. of course if SACD's are at issue, then you have to look around for something else.

Sorry, French fries lets agree to disagree, besides this is all subjective and personnal taste anyways, the ML digital pieces do sound "dry" and lack the liquidity of the best of the reference digital gear today. Even when I had the reference ML front end I added a DCS Parcell umsampler to get alot more of what I call liquidity and a sense of easyness without losing resolution in the total combination. A friend just replaced his ML-390Scdp with the Accustic Arts reference Tube Hybrid and found it hard to believe how much of a qualitative difference/improvement he got in his system.