Thread: iMod Vcap dock & PORTABLE Vcap Dock - Info and Talk Soup
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Old 08-11-2007, 01:36 PM   #51 (permalink)
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The 5.5 iMod with VCap dock sounds better than my Rotel CDP, I can attest to that. The Rotel is not the highest-end cdp out there, but it was almost $1K a few years back, has high-qual Burr-Brown DACs, HDCD decoding, etc. And the iMod+VCap is definitely better.
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