What CD player I have is worth modding?

[flecom]

I have a pair of CD players here that im thinking of modding one of them

I have a Pioneer CLD-V2800, and a Tascam CD-301 MKII

ok the Pioneer is a laserdisc player (that also plays CDs - its only useful function haha its also suprisingly small for a LD player... about the size of an LD) it sounds pretty decent, it has an onboard Toshiba TC9276 1bit 8x oversampling DAC... has two surface mount opamps on the output of the DAC... the nice thing is its a DIP package so its easy to solder onto to steal the nessicary data pins to go to another DAC like say TDA1543... plus it has a really neat-o graphical VFD display in the front

the Tascam is a rackmount CD player with a MN6474A DAC, 4x oversampling... this DAC is a 42 pin QFP package, so harder to play with... neat thing abuot this DAC tho is it has a balanced out... but there are a LOT of (crappy) opamps in the output circuit (does have XLR out tho) so im not sure if its worth re-doing all the analog audio output or just replacing the whole analog stage, or replacing the whole DAC/analog stage... ooo and another thing the opamps are 8 pin SIP packages (you know the ones that stand up and have a straight line of 8 pins... sooo it would be very difficult to replace them straight out...

looking for suggestions... im kinda leaning twards the pioneer and just redoing the whole DAC/Analog section... and yes, i am VERY bored

 

[agile_one]

Does either of those players have digital out? If so, you could take the digital to your DEQ2496 to use it's DAC. If nothing else, it would give you a comparison of the relative merits of the two transports, and that knowledge may inform your decision of which to mod.

I sense part of the motivation is the being "bored", though, so in that case, I'll second the Pioneer Laserdisk. You gotta stick with the cool looking displays to keep up with the DEQ2496

 

[flecom]

the Tascam has coax out, but the behringer only has optical and AES/EBU (XLR) inputs... so would have to pick up a coax>optical converter somewhere...

the Pioneer has no digital outs

 

[philodox]

I think that the laserdisc player would be more interesting and it could be a great conversational piece... especially if you can wring some good performance out of it through mods. The other player sounds boring by comparison.

 

[flecom]

ya i think im definately going to do the LD player... gonna post pics soon... yay get to order more stuff from digi key