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Responses from arftech

What was your first record?
My first record was Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book and even took it to school for show and tell say in my music class.  
Replace inner sleeves on used records?
Every record I buy whether it’s used or new I clean and then place them in new sleeves.  I’m a little annal about this.  
What phono preamp are you using?
I’m using a Primare R35.  
How do you think about Qobuz store?
I’ve been downloading music from Qobuz for about 2 years now and never had an issue.Why do I download/buy?  It’s cheaper than some other places and it’s mine.  Artists can remove their music from services at anytime and I don’t mind paying artists... 
Is my Esoteric DV-50S a keeper?
Keep your DV50.  Great sounding player that I put back into my system after a few years of loaning it out to a friend.  My PS Audio Transport don’t sound as good as the DV50.  Is there better out there?  Yes but it’ll cost me.  Writing this respon... 
1st Album you Ever Owned?
Stevie Wonder’s “Talking Book” and I even took it to school to have our music teacher play it during class. 
New Qobuz User Comments
I go back and forth between both but prefer Tidal because they have more of artists I like within their hip/hop, jazz, soul, blues and electronic categories. 
Pop-up spam is making this site unusable.
I just bought Crystal (.99) for IOS because the last couple of days has been terrible!  Hope this works. 
Will A new DAC improve the sound of my Cary 306/200 CD Player
I have the same CD player as you and over the summer bought a gently used PS Audio PerfectWave DAC for about a couple of hundred dollars more from your price range.  The synergy sounds great to my ears. 
Quality streaming for newbie
I’m using a PS Audio PerfectWave DAC MK2 with a Mac Mini and they sound heavenly together for streaming purposes. 
If you still spin CD's their is a reference level Transport for reasonable money
I just acquired a PS Audio PWD MK2 and may look into getting the matching PWD Transport because I still spin CD’s.