magicalmouse
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Hi i am searching for a cheap cd player/trnsport to use the coax to my dac - i want reliability and bit perfect output - any ideas
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What is your budget? What I have used for 2 —> 3 years is the Audiolab CDT-6000 transport. It reads CDs perfectly and without fuss and retrieves immense sound detail from CDs. It is as reliable as all get, too. I hope that the Audiolab is within your budget...Hi i am searching for a cheap cd player/trnsport to use the coax to my dac - i want reliability and bit perfect output - any ideas
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First, let me say that I'm not an amp and DAC athiest as I can hear differences between them.Hi i am searching for a cheap cd player/trnsport to use the coax to my dac - i want reliability and bit perfect output - any ideas
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Explain this, then. A $10 dvd drive found in any computer is bit perfect. It uses the cheapest components known to society. If it wasn’t bit perfect, you couldn’t install your programs to your computer or burn backups of your family photos. If there were data errors, the programs won’t work or the photos won’t display. There is no in between because the OS will tell you the transfers failed verification and it ceases loading of the corrupted files. Also, audiophiles use that same $10 dvd drive to rip bit perfect copies of their cds in FLAC so they can feed them to their $2000 external DAC. They don’t buy a $600 outboard CD ripper because the $10 one does the job.I love it when someone tells me that I'm not hearing what I'm hearing. I'm not making anything up. Using the same DAC with the same coax cable there is an improvement in the sound quality when using the Audiolab 6000CDT than when I was using the Marantz CD5003 as a transport. But the world is in need of more know it all experts.
It’s quite simple, a CD player has to output a digital stream in real time and to do so it has on the fly error correction to fill in any missing bits, a computer drive can be put under software control to demand bit perfect ripping and will re read a single bit error over and over until it gets it correct or flag a warning, I’ve resorted to buy second hand CD’s for some out of production titles and all apart from a couple have played fine in the CD transport, with The PC drive it will rip a CD in good condition in a few minutes, with the one that skipped in the CD transport it took 20 minutes …Explain this, then. A $10 dvd drive found in any computer is bit perfect. It uses the cheapest components known to society. If it wasn’t bit perfect, you couldn’t install your programs to your computer or burn backups of your family photos. If there were data errors, the programs won’t work or the photos won’t display. There is no in between because the OS will tell you the transfers failed verification and it ceases loading of the corrupted files. Also, audiophiles use that same $10 dvd drive to rip bit perfect copies of their cds in FLAC so they can feed them to their $2000 external DAC. They don’t buy a $600 outboard CD ripper because the $10 one does the job.
So, how can a $10 dvd drive be bit perfect, but a $50 Sony Blu-ray player isn’t? If the Blu-ray player wasn’t bit perfect, the video and audio in the movies would be all kinds of corrupted.
And thanks for going ad hominen by calling someone a know it all.
Even the cheapest cd player will have a modest data buffer.It’s quite simple, a CD player has to output a digital stream in real time and to do so it has on the fly error correction to fill in any missing bits, a computer drive can be put under software control to demand bit perfect ripping and will re read a single bit error over and over until it gets it correct or flag a warning, I’ve resorted to buy second hand CD’s for some out of production titles and all apart from a couple have played fine in the CD transport, with The PC drive it will rip a CD in good condition in a few minutes, with the one that skipped in the CD transport it took 20 minutes …