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Build Your Own CD?

I know people have tried to build their own passive preamps, tube amps, and tube preamps, and that companies offer kits for these purposes. As I look at home theater and digital (CD components and players) I get the sick feeling that they are all the same on the inside and just packaged differently. There seems to be no reason you could not buy a phillips transport, Crystal D/A and the rest of the stuff necessary to put in the box to make a kick-ass cd player (a D/A would seem even easier), so who amoung us has thought of this? SACD components seem obtainable as well. The only problem is the interconnection and compatibility of the various of digital components, but if someone could tell us what to connect, I believe that it could be done. I am not saying that we could build something as good as Wadia or Sony SACD, but hey, could we build something better than most of the stuff out there?
south_park
kublakhan
717 posts
 
turbo: here's part of a letter i got from albert at space-tech a couple months ago. hope it helps. you'll have to call or email to clarify if you're really interested obviously.
Email:
....Actually
I think your CD player [this is when i had a CEC TL5100] sounds better than the audio research CD-1.
The CD player I am now using is built by myself, it compose of standard
computer CD-ROM drive with a very decent and carefully designed high grade
power supply, it sounds better than any conventional CD player, I have compare
with the Mark Levinson 30 and Wedia 22 and YBA blue lazer, and mine CD transport
can beat them down easily. The only problem for my CD transport is no track
or time display, so you will not know which track is playing and how much
time left, so I haven't put it in my web site, for I think people can hardly
accept something like that, but it really sounds great !!
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dekay
5,381 posts
 
Kublakhan: I wish that Albert at Space-Tech would reconsider. I for one do not use the display on my player and could care less about this info. We have not even used the remote control for months now.
lee_gbks
2 posts
 
Would it be possible to build a multiple cd-changer instead of a single disc player? And would building actually be cheaper than buying?
j_thunders
173 posts
 
Well there you go, I'm just the opposite from Dekay. I want to have the track information or it's just no good. And it better be real-time information too, none of this after-the-fact repeating history business. I will buy one from Albert only if he can sort all this out. Maybe he could call it the space-tech 'real-time', or maybe the 'on-time'. With names like that, I would probably buy more than one.
turbodieselvw
48 posts
 
Thanks for the info Kubla.
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