good CD player with variable output?

Can anyone recommend a good quality, high-value CD player with a variable output to drive an amplifier directly?

lotusm5006-17-2002 11:17am

lollypop Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 12 posts 06-18-2002 at 12:15am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Why not just get a standard CD player and add Ric Schultz' EVS volume attenuators onto the inputs of your amp? I think the Nude Attenuators are only like $250 or so, and they sound great. Not for the lazy true, as you must walk over to the amp and adjust the volume by hand, but you claim to want good sound for minimal $$ and drive the amp direct, so this is a very good option for you. Team up with something like the Arcam Alpha 9 or a Bel Canto DAC1.1 with mass-market DVD player, and you'd have GREAT digital sound for around $1000.
ivanj Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 35 posts 06-18-2002 at 02:59am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete believe it or not an old Adcom 575 has attenuators and can be had for less than $200. The sound is not bad.
tvc15 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 11 posts 06-18-2002 at 11:14am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Lolly's right, but EVS discontinued the Ultimate Attenuators recently. Great idea, as they eliminate a set of IC's, and allow for a very fine adjustment of input signal, and reduction of the amount of digital attenuation (for those of us with digital volume control cdps)for improved resolution. I spoke to him last week.Anyone know of something essentially equal?