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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: A contemporary great CD transport for under $100.

Post Subject: Wadia vs. Sanyo as a transport.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/16/2011

Jorge wrote:
Anyway a couple of months ago a friend brought over a modded Denon multiplayer, I dont remember the model (I could look it up), it was highly modded, we were testing it with a projector and its Blue Ray capabilities, he then insisted we listened to a music Cd on it, which we did and it was surprinsingly nice, I wanted to try just the DAC section of it, but we couldnt since there was no input for it, but it did have a digital output we tried with my EAD dac. Well the sound was very good even compared to the Forsell, now keeping things in perspective, the Forsell is still better doing a lot of wonderful things and details where it counts, but the Denon was not left behind in the dust.

Yes, those types of the success stories are exactly what I had in my mind. It is very highly possible that some kind very mediocre consumer level CD, DVD or BlueRay players that no one even to think to evaluate for serious audio applications being observed more diligently would demonstrate very good level of performance. I do not think it will happen with DAC parts of the CD played but the CD, DVD or BlueRay player with digital output might juts do it as transports. It would no problem for them to play anything as the nowadays lasers are very strong to be able to work from low reflective CDW. Remember my Synopsys digital cable? It was $21 that was sold at each gas station at the time and it delivered sound that no other cable was able to touch in my view. I still use Synopsys for all my SPIDIF connections. So, I would like to discover, of offer you to discover a consumer player that makes good digital transport. So, grab your children boom-boxes or the stereo from your family rooms that you use to record those stupid sport games and to try to use them as source to drive the DACs from your audio playback. It is possible that some of your Sony, Philips or Samsungs will do much better as transports then your Marks Levinsons, Spectrals of Burmesters….
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