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It beats today's top CD players

it does not beat out an older naim cd player, with two chassis, from the 90's. i believe it was the cd x.

i may have the model number incorrect, but what i heard sounded better than anything i have heard since that time.

i have heard a mac desk top, I believe it was a g5, connected wireless to denon's top of the line dac, 90's vintage, about $12,000 in price. it was very good digital, but inferior to the name.

20-25.

Thanks for the responses. The question assumes that the person responding has a reasonable level of experience with both reference CD players and the very latest mid-level DAC/computer sources.

I'm asking because I don't have that level of experience, and am trying to determine if I'm being snowed by a sales person. I will say that I did take home an inexpensive DAC last weekend that was surprisingly impressive when hooked into my computer source. Sounded way better to me (from memory) than a CD player that 10 years ago was the top of the line player of a well-know British company.