[kpp80202]

I am thinking of picking up a Rotel RCD-855 to use as a transport and use a Central Station as the DAC. I've done searches here, and don't see any comments as to the quality of the 855 as purely a transport, other than some posts that it is pretty quiet. Please let me know your opinions. Quick!

Thanks.

 

[budx3385]

I don't know what the Central Station DAC is like, but if you check this thread

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=228977

you will see that your Rotel CDP can be VASTLY improved by simple mods, and then you might not need to use a separate DAC at all.

 

[Rameish]

The Rotel RCD-855 is a good machine if the transport side is still working and in good shape. The lens mech is the CDM4-19 swing arm - pretty good. But what makes this CDP really worthwhile is the fact that it uses the TDA-1541A chip! This is the famous chip that is used in several NOS (non over-sampling) DAC. It's pretty easy to convert it as all you need to do is swap out the lousy digital filter and drop in a NOS module. And do change those aging op-amps as well.

The NOS module I dropped in was this:

http://www.net-audio.co.uk/tda1541nos.html

You are one lucky guy!

Here's a link to sgheadphones were most of the pictures for all the mods done to the Rotel can be seen

http://www.sgheadphones.net/index.ph...=Rotel+RCD-855

Have fun.