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Build Your Own CD?

I know people have tried to build their own passive preamps, tube amps, and tube preamps, and that companies offer kits for these purposes. As I look at home theater and digital (CD components and players) I get the sick feeling that they are all the same on the inside and just packaged differently. There seems to be no reason you could not buy a phillips transport, Crystal D/A and the rest of the stuff necessary to put in the box to make a kick-ass cd player (a D/A would seem even easier), so who amoung us has thought of this? SACD components seem obtainable as well. The only problem is the interconnection and compatibility of the various of digital components, but if someone could tell us what to connect, I believe that it could be done. I am not saying that we could build something as good as Wadia or Sony SACD, but hey, could we build something better than most of the stuff out there?
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lee_gbks
2 posts
 
Would it be possible to build a multiple cd-changer instead of a single disc player? And would building actually be cheaper than buying?
j_thunders
173 posts
 
Well there you go, I'm just the opposite from Dekay. I want to have the track information or it's just no good. And it better be real-time information too, none of this after-the-fact repeating history business. I will buy one from Albert only if he can sort all this out. Maybe he could call it the space-tech 'real-time', or maybe the 'on-time'. With names like that, I would probably buy more than one.
turbodieselvw
48 posts
 
Thanks for the info Kubla.
jeffloistarca
1,004 posts
 
I sell both Burr Brown and Crystal, if anyone needs a free sample, get in touch...Jeff
space_tech_lab
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This is Albert of Space-tech Lab., the guy Kublakhan mentioned about. My CD player is using the special remote control edition of Creative 48X/52X CD-ROM drive as back-bone, I designed and built a very heavy duty power supply section for it with a decent chassis. I didn't use it's analog output, it is because the on-board D/A is really bad sound, instead I use my own 26bit 512x over-sampling D/A converter with balanced tube output stage, that makes a killer system.
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