Suggestions for a CDP that's


truly balanced with vol control. I've looked at AYON but I'm told they are on back-order. I looked at AMR but it's not truly balanced even though you can use XLR's. (pin 3 is not active).
What other choices are there?
sksos1
McIntosh makes 3 SACD/CD players with volume and balanced outs. MCD201,301,500. the 500 is the best one it uses the Saberdac chipset. The 301 has a good transport but dosent sound near as good as the MCD500.
zd542 the rest of my system is as follows:

AZ Crescendo speakers
Atmasphere Novacron LE OTL amps
NVO SPA-II/2 (22 tubes) phono unit
Brinkmann Bardo TT with their 10.5 arm and EMT cartridge
VRE-1b pre-amp
Mixture of cables from PAD, Pranawire and Nanotec

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Resolution Audio Cantata, it is what I use and I have Atma-Sphere amps as well.

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It looks like you have a very nice line stage. There's a good chance that you may like the player better going through it. Not to mention the switching of cables you will have to do moving between the 2 sources.
Zd542 you are absolutely correct, the VRE-1b is more than a very nice line stage, it actually beat out my Kondo M1000 line stage which retailed at $95,000!
I've decided to get the new AMR CD-777SE which is due out in a few weeks time. Not a true balanced design but not a real issue.

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