If you could stretch you budget a few hundred, a fun option might be a pre owned Cary 306-200 CD player. It will, no offense intended, outperform the cd section of your Musical Fidelity and has an awesome D/A converter (3 digital inputs). I had one although I just upgraded to 306sacd. YRMV.
Best DAC w/ HDCD for under $1500
I've built a music server with over 2,000 cd's loaded in .wav format (no compression). I want to run the digital out from my pc to a dac w/ hdcd capabilities, and then to my stereo system. As of now I'm using a Bel Canto DAC2 with terrific results. However, it does not have HDCD. I'd really like to take advantage of the HDCD sound, and am therefore looking for a new DAC w/HDCD. Used or new, would like to keep the price in the 15 hundred or less range. The rest of my system consists of Musical Fidelity A308cr amp/pre/cd and Dynaudio Contour 3.3 speakers. THANKS in advance for opinions.
Paul
Paul
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