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CD Player Advice

I am looking for advice on CD players. My current player is the Rega Planet 2000. I'm fairly new to the quality audio market, and probably don't have the right vocab, but I can say that I find the Rega a bit harsh.

Other equipment: Creek 5350, VA Bach, Wastach LC-530 speaker cables, Wasatch 104-U interconnects

My favorite music is acoustic, blues - a lot of Calpton, Garcia, Grisman.

I'm willing to spend 1-2K, used or new, solid state or tubed.

The other CD player that I have listend too on my system in the creek CD43, which I liked alot - better than the rega. IT seemed to have a softer and more realistic sound, but I'm guessing that I can even better than that.

any advice is appreciated. thank you
benmcgill

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tonnesen
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I've been looking for a CDP in about the same price range. There are many many many recommendations in the archives, I've spent the last week reading the archives, and my conclusion is.... (drum roll)

...lot's of different advice and the only consensus is that you MUST audition the different players, and it's best if you can audition in your system.

Good Luck!
tonnesen
143 posts
 
I don't understand the benefit of the belt drive - but I also don't know how the CDP is designed...for a digital format, I would think the best solution would be to read an entire song (or the entire disc) into RAM and design the digital processing and output to be totaly separate from the input mechanism.

Or is there some reason that the input should be read and processed in real time?
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