Slim Devices Duet

I have the Duet and the Squeezebox classic and like the classic better. I have found the Duet controller to be buggy and somewhat unreliable.

I have been using the Duet for a few months now. I initially had it hooked up without a DAC and thought it sounded OK. I then tried it with the Cambridge DAC Magic which was a marked improvement. About a month ago I traded the DAC Magic in (long story) for a Cambridge 840C CD player, running the Duet through its digital in, and it sounds great. All of my digital music is AIFF and I have the Duet connected to the 840C with Audio Magic XStream Digital Cable. Though the sound is good and I love the convenience of the Duet and its many cool features, I must say that in my system, the Duet does fall a bit short of the depth and richness that I get from playing CDs through the 840. I still really like it, but if I want to do some serious listening, the CDP gets the nod every time.

I've been using a Bolder Cable fully modified Duet in my main audio system using a MHDT Havana NOS DAC and does it sound musical? YES! Coupling that with the convenience of a centralized storage on my computer hard drive, the retrival of my digital music library has never been better.
Have used dbPoweramp as my cd ripper and files are saved in flac format. IMHO, the Slim Devices Duet (and other distributed devices) are the best thing to hit audio in a long time.

Has anyone downloaded the I Tunes plus recordings and played them through your duet? I don't know if it is just my imagination but the CD versions played on my Krell KAV 300 cd sound better than these suposed high res downloads. Has anyone else thought this to be true?

My System:

Krell KCT
Krell FPB 300cx
Slimdebvices Duet played through a Benchamrk DAC1, balanced connection
Krell KAV 300CD

Dpetri,
Your CDP should sound better, the iTunes plus recordings are not high res. They are only encoded at 256 kbps.

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