selfdivider;272922 Wrote: > A little update... Well, I started this thread & I'm happy to report > that I decided to go with SB3 running through Cambridge Audio 840C. I > was too lazy to build a noiseless PC... that project is still on hold. > > I still like the idea of having a standalone CDP with my audiophile > system. Call me old-fashioned, but I don't see that being a negative. > There are some CDs I'd like to take the effort to burn into HD > carefully, going through EAC and labelling the files, but there are > some I'd rather just pop in the CDP here & there. You can't beat > versatility. > > Cambridge Audio 840C can be had now for around $1100 - $1200, so it > puts it on par with Benchmark DAC, more or less. So for similar price, > you also get an excellent CDP, which is a huge plus. I haven't A-B'd > them, but 840C stacks up well. It uses two Analog Devices chips per > channel as DAC: that's 4 altogether... pretty killer if you ask me (I > think Benchmark also uses AD DAC chip? I know that many Esoterics do.) > Plus upsampling to 24/384. Really heavy-duty power supply. And in the > end, all I know is that the music from SB3 sounds fantastic going > through 840C. Hopefully later down the line, I'll get to compare > directly with Transporter.
How does the Cambridge playing the CD compare to the SB3 playing through the Cambridge's DAC? -- upstateaudio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ upstateaudio's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9577 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42020 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
