I am familiar with your Nak 5 disc CD player. The multiple disk was a nice feature, but it was not near as good as their Tape Decks, but the name sold it. If you want to keep playing your CD's, I would suggest getting a CD transport and feed it into a good DAC, you mentioned two good ones, but everyone has their favorite. However, if you want to get off of CD's, then buy either a Bluesound Vault or an Aurrender and burn them onto the hard drive. If you were used to loading the Nak and playing CD after CD, you will love being able to do it from your phone, laptop or iPad. I was 'talked' into the Bluesound 2 years ago and was glad I did, ever since then I never listen to my actual CD's. Also, the Vault and some of the Aurrenders will get you into streaming in a fast, easy way. Many opinions out there, so perhaps others will suggest otherwise, but this is what I did and it made getting into everything digital easy and quick, and I am still very happy.
How to get into high end digital? (Feeding a DAC)
I am looking primarily at the Schitt Yggdrasil or the Topping D90.
Some example of what is commonly done would be great.
The system currently consists of:
I also have a Home Theatre pre, which is Roon capable, on the way… So that maybe does some of this for me as well?
But to be totally honest, the digital side is a bit of mystery to me.
I have always thought we plug in a CD player and the signal comes out. (Maybe with some nuance in DACs, clock jitter, and filtering to separate the higher end from the lower end products.)
- How does one feed those?
- I am assuming any sort of CD transport would output the bit stream?
- or… they get saved to file and played from some media player into the DACs.
Some example of what is commonly done would be great.
The system currently consists of:
- TT —> Audio Research PH2
- An old Nakamichi 5 disk CD player
- TV
- Audible Illusions line stage (New tunes on the way, but it still sound OK to me with the old tube in it)
- Prima Luna (with GoldenLion and TS KT-120 one the way… and I might I’ll get the VTL mono blocks 100w/ch serviced)
- Vandy 2C and Vandy sub
I also have a Home Theatre pre, which is Roon capable, on the way… So that maybe does some of this for me as well?
But to be totally honest, the digital side is a bit of mystery to me.
I have always thought we plug in a CD player and the signal comes out. (Maybe with some nuance in DACs, clock jitter, and filtering to separate the higher end from the lower end products.)