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Sticking with CD's for now

Could anyone offer some help with my interest in adding an outboard DAC to my current Ayre CX7e MP digital player.
DAC would need to have aes/ebu input capability to consider it.
Trying to find improved sound via CD player for the time being with future options the DAC can provide to be considered.
Any direct experience with opinions and options would be appreciated. Price range $2000 vacinity new or used.
len067
mahler123
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I used to have a Mytek Manhatten I which I am pretty sure had AES/EBU

I would look at the Brooklyn to see if it has that input, and if so that is what I would get

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toddrhodes
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The Yggdrasil with the latest analog output board is around your range and has AES/EBU, USB, BNC and coax S/PDIF. I've got it paired with a transport that is probably close to what you're using (Jay's CDT2 Mk2) and frankly, I don't even turn on the turntable these days unless I don't have what I want to hear on CD. Measurements be damned, it sounds very natural, engaging, and just plain fun. I'm pretty sure someone somewhere measured noise from an Yggy outside of typical human hearing range two+ years ago and "objectivists" cast it aside as defective, but I can assure you, it sounds magnificent to these human ears.
mzkmxcv
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@elizabeth  
 
If you can find any area where the two DACs I mentioned fall short, I’d love to hear it. I’d appreciate real descriptions and not “lacks breath”.
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