https://www.underwoodhifi.com/products/melco
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no affiliation - wally is a good guy, sells excellent gear at reasonable prices
Better sounding alternatives to Blue Node Vault 2i
https://www.underwoodhifi.com/products/melco no affiliation - wally is a good guy, sells excellent gear at reasonable prices |
I looked and read the material.... could not see a way for it to rip or record by itself from CD, I do see an internal clock for correcting a bit stream output but don’t see a built in DAC, and no RCA or balanced outputs, just digital so it would need an external DAC as well. .... Apparently I would need to pair this up with a CD/SACD player as well as an external DAC making this a near $10K project by the time you add cords and cables. It might be a great unit but I don’t think this what I’m looking to add. Thanks for the time to post... appreciated... |
In the month plus since my original post some things have changed on my system. The Cambridge and Sony CD/SACD both feed a Benchmark DAC 3b now and the entire system is up on a Niagara 3000 Power Conditioner with a Monsoon cord for it and Low Z cords from Audioquest on all components that have with IEC plugs. Lots of my CDs are from 20 or more years ago and mastering then is not what it is now I think. Rather than rerip them in another format I'm going to try Tidal HiFi as an add to my music sources which would then be the CDs, streaming internet channels and Tidal. I'm in the process of getting the Cambridge switched to hard wired Ethernet instead of wifi and should have that finished in about 10 days of so, cable ordered and have to go through a wall but that is the next step. CDs that were well recorded and mastered are stunning, as are some of the internet streaming stations, OTOH many CDs are just hard brittle crap in comparison and certainly not worth re-ripping. |