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| Playback Designs MPS-5 CD/SACD Player Here are a few things that I'd do different if doing this comparo again and only had an hour to an hour and a half:First, I'd avoid Pink Floyd and Radiohead. As much fun as they are to listen to, they're chocked so full of purposely out of phase s... | |
| Playback Designs MPS-5 CD/SACD Player Bar81, I totally agree with your assertions about bias, but given that, how can you then turn around and coclude "...that the PBD isn't nearly the world beater..." I don't think there's enough information to conclude anything, other than it's a co... | |
| Will new Class D trump a vintage Class A/AB? Understood. | |
| Playback Designs MPS-5 CD/SACD Player Keep in mind how much AF has vested in the Emm. | |
| Playback Designs MPS-5 CD/SACD Player Audio Federation has added their reactions to the comparison at their Blog Check it out.Dave | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Andreas Koch, now with Playback Designs and formerly Emm, among others.Dave | |
| Will new Class D trump a vintage Class A/AB? Hmm, why didn't you stay with boutique? The very best in Class D is from the boutique makers, like Rowland and Spectral.Get the Rowland Continuum 500 and your days of tracking down hum will be over. Also, you'll be able to sit back and play music.... | |
| CDP better than Oppo 970HD I've run my Oppo through the excellent DAC of my Playback Designs MPS-5 with excellent results. The CD performance of the Oppo improved 90+% when used thusly. Hence, I think that you might consider investing in a good DAC in your price range, like... | |
| Playback Designs MPS-5 CD/SACD Player Mike of Audio Federation took some nice, detailed pictures of the PD MPS-5 that you may want to see.Also, they've said that they'll soon be adding their impressions of this same session.Dave | |
| Which tube cd player do you like Mrjstark, you're right, that was one of my weaker posts. I probably meant to say that DAC and clock development has come so far that you can buy now and stay very happy for many years because further development will yield increasingly small retur... | |
| Playback Designs MPS-5 CD/SACD Player Thanks guys. I'm not a "reviewer", so my references are just what I have, unless I get a nice invite for a session, as extended by Neli and Mike.Unfortunately, family medical issues will keep me from going down to Austin to meet Guido and compare ... | |
| Which tube cd player do you like Listen for yourself and don't worry about tubes or no tubes. The DAC is where it's at and the state of the art DACs are moving forward very fast. You can now buy with confidence that no upgrade will be needed. IMHO, the new technology is the best ... | |
| Which tube cd player do you like You list no budget, so I'll nominate the SS Playback Designs MPS-5. The DAC and transport are probably the components that separate the men from the boys in CDPs. Why would you focus on a tube in the power supply?Dave | |
| Playback Designs MPS-5 CD/SACD Player Yesterday I travelled up the mountainside, literally, to visit Neli and Mike at Audio Federation. I’d ordered some HRS isolation bases through them and the main purpose of my trip was to pick up my new HRS bases (review to come). Neli suggested th... | |
| class d No guarantees, but the Rowland chassis is designed with containing RFI in mind. Some of the worst of Class D or ICEPower impressions comes from these kind of issues. It cannot be ignored. Besides interacting with pre-amps, setting your CDP and ICE... |