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?
If you are running it into your DAC(s), pretty much anything will do... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer (Audiocomm full mods)- Linn 5103 - Linn Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49169 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
