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Is it worth upgrading a CD player?

I’ve had my Marantz CD6002 for around 14 years and it’s still going strong. I have it connected to an Audiolab M-DAC+ and play via my Rega amp. I’m mostly vinyl but have started to playvmy CD’s more recently and wondered whether upgrading the CD player would be worth it or not, given the fact it’s played via a dedicated DAC. Am I right in thinking there would be little noticeable improvement?

side22olto
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lak
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+1 Charles1dad

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carlsbad
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@ghdprentice I think you misunderstood my post.  I meant that a streamer must work hard to deal with dropped bits and upgrading your streamer is key.  I have gone to an Innuos Zenith Mk3.  But I think the CD transport has much less tendancy to drop bits and thus any good solid well designed CD transport should get a good stream of bits to your DAC.  However, I am not sure about that and was hoping someone could confirm that CD transports drop very few bits.

Jerry

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Absolutely! Check out the Project DS 2, a player with a coax output, meaning it can be used as a transport, too

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side22olto OP
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I forgot to mention my cd collection is ripped to an external drive and then either streamed through the house via Sonos or played directly to the DAC via a USB cable from a Mac. I still manage the music library using iTunes.

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