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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0
Post Subject: Still in progress...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 6/9/2019
John, I am not sure that I can talk in generalities on the
subject as for a quite few years I stopped to monitor the market as attentively
as I did years back. It is very possible that something new come to existence
last 10 years. Also, there a huge array of new options to rip CDs and play files
from different streamers, some people claim that it is the way to go. My
limited experience with ripping and streaming CDs demonstrated to me that TL0
beats anything I was trying to stream and I found that the people who supported
ripping were uninformed. But it was my own experience from past and I am not
sure if the conclusion still holds ground today. I still use TL0 with Bidat,
that I found to be a unique combination. The massive, overwhelmingly massive
details of TL0’s output in my view are very well compensated by lower Mid bloating
character of Bidat. I find that TL0 ability to accent the rhythmical
inflictions are so stanning that only this characteristic made me in past discard
any other CD solution contestants. The TL0 also has the best lower bass of anything
I have tried, even though the Bidat does not.
So, as my TL0 dies it was quite a tragedy to me. I did fine
a laser at eBay; they are quite available and they cost $40. I have my local technician
to put the new laser in and it has… no impact. Bummer! Ten my technician asked
me why I made him to replace the laser, I told him that because it is what get
worn. He retook the unit and measured everything and informed me that I was
wrong and the problem with my unit was not laser but the spindle motor. That
thing was had to get and we got not the right replacement but something that he
was able to fit in there. This fixed the problem. The unit still have some occasional
random “loosing” but generally it is operational. If I do find the right spindle
motor, I will replace the one that it being used now.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site