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Advantages of a tube CD player over an SS player?

Would like to hear some pros/cons about buying a tubed CD player?? Do they generate less digital glare?? and so, offer smoother, more musical playback of "redbook" and SACD CD formats?? Or is there more noise, less detail, and over all transparency???

I ask because my search for a new "high end" CD player has come down to either a (used) Ayre CX7emp2 (latest version) or a used Ayon CD-07
sunnyjim
czarivey
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tube cd player has extra tube buffer. the rest of hardware is just like in ordinary cd player. extra buffer implies to extra circuit elements implies to extra stage in the signal path implies extra colorations.
you can make any cd player with tube output stage. just purchase musical fidelity tube buffer and even pocket cd-player can become tube cd-player.
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buconero117
2,311 posts
 
All things being equal, and they never are, especially the DAC chip, tubes should sound better.
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syntax
2,193 posts
 
Charles1dad said it all. There is nothing to add, except you buy brain. Can be good, can be inferior. That means you should know what you want . Otherwise you can also roll a dice.
judyazblues
157 posts
 
No advantage.
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