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Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs?
Lalitk let’s say your previous pricey 26 k streaming vs an esoteric 25ks sacd/cd player or DAc/ transport worth 25k  Of course without hooking them up it’s hard to compare. What will be your guess?  
Please talk me out of buying the Avalon Eclipse
Celo the drive of 12 hrs is too much.Move on. Enjoy your TN trip.  
Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs?
Jnovak did you read Blisshifi post Topping d90 dac has characteristics of Tambuququi Mola mola dac?  
Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs?
And if internet is down will you have music?Upstate audiophile I agree with you.  
what dacs are fast, lively, energetic?
Triverna  at axpona I listened to all denafriips dac from terminator down to ares. So Iam a bit familiar with their DAcs . At the end I bought the demo Ares . Listening on the d90 on YouTube it’s sounds very promising.Blisshifi thinks it close to ... 
what dacs are fast, lively, energetic?
Bliss Hifi I do have gungnir dac, ares denafrifs, teac 301. Originally I am thinking of buying LIM yagdrassil but I read one user said its very close to my gungnir.Maybe I will try the D90 variant lll 1 bit.I believe your assesment on the Topping ... 
Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs?
Richardbrand I did not know classical is you say dreadful on streaming? I listen to classical 50%. I have not heard classical on streaming even at axpona..  
what dacs are fast, lively, energetic?
Blisshifi the Topping d90 is available on Amazon , thank you I will check it out.  
Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs?
Lalitk maybe your streaming set up is excellent compare to your sacd or cd set up. In this case streaming will be better.iam only speculating.  
Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs?
It’s hard to compare cds and streaming because of variables on every set up. Let say I brought my SA10 to my friend house . Obviously his streamer is already matching his system, my player will need acclimation time to perform its best.The the pri... 
Please talk me out of buying the Avalon Eclipse
Celo if you can’t live without those speakers by all means get them. If not let it go. There are other speakers out there .  
Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs?
I have a friend who told me the same thing cd sounds better than streaming. I ask him why ? He said too much upsampling on the streaming because of that the music no longer sound natural. I don’t know if this true?Actually his step son in law came... 
The Disappearing Act
Bigkiidz with all due respect to your knowledge on this hobby? My whole body will remind me the music is not entertaining when synergy is not good of my system. My thought is it will be hard to achieve disappearing act without synergy. I might be ... 
The Disappearing Act
OP this is a very good thread.Disappearing is hard to achieve on every recording.But I totally agree with you regarding the reason why disappearing act happens.   
Why Do ~You~ Still Play CDs?
Big_greg +1 , you are right on the money. So many great SAcds.