sc53;314362 Wrote: > Hi, after a year or so with my 3 SB3's running quite reliably at home on > both PC and Mac, I have decided to part with my precious and wonderful > Ayre CD player (the CX-7e). I use the SB3's with DACs and cannot > identify the differences when the music is from the Ayre or from the > SB3 into an Electrocompaniet ECD-1 or a Benchmark DAC-1. So I have > decided to part with the Ayre--but I feel I need an emergency backup to > use in case of network meltdown, modem failure or whatever. Is there > any inexpensive player I could buy to use as a backup if my network is > down, that won't be horribly inadequate given what I am used to > listening to? I was thinking of the Oppo but have never heard it; > similarly thought of the cambridge player but again never heard it. Any > thoughts?
I would not recommend an Oppo. When playing the first track on a CD I've found my receiver (Denon 3806) takes around a second to "sync up" and you lose that music. This does not happen with my Panasonic Blu-Ray disc player or my Cyrus CD player used as a transport. On another forum (avsforum.com) this was acknowledged as a design "feature" of the Oppo (DV-981HD). I've always read great things about the Ayre CD player - its incredible that SB3 + DAC1 can sound as good. -- nicholasg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nicholasg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18127 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49169 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
