Hmmm, not good if you were charged for this.
Cheers George
Replacement of Cary CD player
Looking for some recommendations:
I am using tube CD player Cary CD 308T as a transport, which I own for the last 10 years and recently thinking about replacing it with dedicated CD transport. The Cary is 16-17 years old and transport can be up to 10 years old.
I am now using Cary with Audiobyte Black Dragon DAC, Bryston monos and with tube preamp, I love the resulting warm and very musical sound.
So if you guys replaced this Cary model with CD transport I would love to hear from you which one.
I tried Primare DD15 and NuPrime 8 Pro, both were not even close to old Cary. My budget is up to $1700USD for used transport.
I am using tube CD player Cary CD 308T as a transport, which I own for the last 10 years and recently thinking about replacing it with dedicated CD transport. The Cary is 16-17 years old and transport can be up to 10 years old.
I am now using Cary with Audiobyte Black Dragon DAC, Bryston monos and with tube preamp, I love the resulting warm and very musical sound.
So if you guys replaced this Cary model with CD transport I would love to hear from you which one.
I tried Primare DD15 and NuPrime 8 Pro, both were not even close to old Cary. My budget is up to $1700USD for used transport.
Showing 4 responses by georgehifi
rohlim OPStill makes for a great transport, even with RCA spdif, and that great Philips CDM-12 laser. Put it on a large floor tile, with a half inflated kids bike/scooter innertube under it, and it will serve you well (even pull the tubes) because they aren’t used. Cheers George |
I seen many friends/acquaintances that sell up on their huge CD collection to go to servers or streaming. And they get on this never ending merry go round chopping and changing these servers/streamers and the way they connect up in a quest to get back to how their CD ’s used to sound when they spun them and to get back to their musical roots, they are almost suicidal to watch. Most in the end are not satisfied, and now just play music as background noise and given up on audio and having "hifi nights with friends" and actually sitting in the sweet spot and reveling in their 3 dimensional sound stage like they used to when the were audiophiles with a massive cd collections and a real love of music and the equipment that played it. Cheers George |
Replacement of Cary CD player Why? Keep the Cary, super build quality, great remote, it uses the very good and still available cheap Philips CDM12 laser, and it also has RCA, Toslink and AES/EBU digital output the better output to go to dacs. https://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=CDM12&_sac... You can even use it’s own R2R Multibit 2 x PCM1704 (best made) + HDCD dac as a stand alone dac, with also RCA, mini usb digital inputs. https://positive-feedback.com/Issue47/images/P1014609.jpg You’d be hard pressed bettering this for a digital transport. Cheers George |