To follow up, I sold my Ayre CD player for $1700 and picked up a Classe
CDP .5 for $600 on Audiogon. I have always liked Classe gear but have
never heard this model player. Hoping it will serve as a good backup
both as transport and CD player if needed. It will play out of my
Electrocompaniet DAC
JJZolx;314462 Wrote:
... There are a lot of wonderful advantages to PC based music systems,
but browsing and selecting something to listen to from a large music
library is _not_ one of them. For this reason alone, I'd be tempted to
hang on to a really good CD player instead of selling
slimkid;315157 Wrote:
It is really amazing how different approach we all can take on common
issues. :) If I was to write the prior paragraph it would read
something like this:
... There are a lot of wonderful advantages to PC based music systems,
but browsing and selecting something to
I got my SB and once I had all my cds online found I never used my cdp
any more. I sold it and bought a DAC and have never looked back. (Had
to buy the DAC as the SB on its own just didn't sounds as good as my
cdp).
One extra benefit of the DAC was that I can use it with TV and DVD's
(DVD
sc53;315147 Wrote:
To follow up, I sold my Ayre CD player for $1700 and picked up a Classe
CDP .5 for $600 on Audiogon. I have always liked Classe gear but have
never heard this model player. Hoping it will serve as a good backup
both as transport and CD player if needed. It will play out of
I never had anything in the class of the Ayre CD, I did have a high end
Pioneer player, and many others. As soon as I got my first SqueezeBox,
I was converted.
There is nothing about physical CDs that appeal to me. For the four or
five years since I started drinking Sean's Koolaide, I touch a CD
Mr Bill--to answer your question, the SB3 and Electrocompaniet DAC are
not _better_than my Ayre, but in my room, with my associated equipment,
through my ears, and given MY listening/sound preferences, I could not
tell the difference. I also owned a Linn Unidisk and also sold that as
overkill
My CD player was on its last legs a couple of years back. Not buying a
new one helped in my mental justification for buying a Transporter. In
case of Transporter failure (I had a power supply chip go down) or when
my wife wants to play a CD, we just stick it in the DVD player. Like
some others
JJZolx;314462 Wrote:
(An aside: During the week of going back to CDs I was reminded once
again of how much nicer it is to browse through a wall full of actual
CDs instead of using one of the Squeeze interfaces. There are a lot of
wonderful advantages to PC based music systems, but
andynormancx;314517 Wrote:
Nothing that a bar code scanner + database + a quick bit of code
couldn't fix ;)
Not hardly. You're talking the opposite.
--
JJZolx
Jim
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JJZolx;314531 Wrote:
Not hardly. You're talking the opposite.
Huh ? What I suggested would allow you to browse your music collection
the way you you like to, by looking through your CDs, but play it back
quickly and easily via your SB.
- browse CDs
- choose CD
- wave CD at barcode scanner
-
JJZolx;314462 Wrote:
...I was reminded once again of how much nicer it is to browse through a
wall full of actual CDs instead of using one of the Squeeze
interfaces...
What a strange idea. For me, storage and browsing is the main problem
with CDs, they take up wall space that we don't have
When my network is down I play vinyl...
I'll get me coat!
--
bigfool1956
David Ayers
Music is what counts, hifi just helps us enjoy it more
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TheLastMan;314539 Wrote:
What a strange idea. For me, storage and browsing is the main problem
with CDs, they take up wall space that we don't have and wouldn't want
to cover in CDs anyway. Personally, I find them a pain to browse
through - squinting at the tiny writing on the spine.
I'm
cliveb;314562 Wrote:
I'm with JJZolx on this.
I'd be willing to take those annoying Squeezeboxes off your hands,
clive and JJZ, so you can get back to where you once belonged.
--
Pale Blue Ego
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Pale Blue Ego;314586 Wrote:
I'd be willing to take those annoying Squeezeboxes off your hands, clive
and JJZ, so you can get back to where you once belonged.
Acknowledging one small disadvantage in running a Squeezebox based
system doesn't mean I don't appreciate the multitude of advantages it
The idea of browsing my CD shelves is exactly why I don't want to give
up a CD player altogether! I love doing that. I still miss the old-time
record store where you could go in and flip through LPs in various
genres for hours on end, sneezing from the dust. Later I browsed for
CDs in the same
The point is : now that you have ripped all your Cd's and gone the SB/TP
route are you actually going to load one up and spin it.
I have ended up with a closet full of equipment I no longer use but
have been loathe to selleventually it loses all value and I can't
bear to dump it or sell
I owe a Cambridge player (640C) and i find that :
- its transport is pretty good, as good as my SB3. It replaces my SB
whenever i service the network/computers and it drives well enough my
dac. In my case, whatever differences may exist between the two of
them, they mainly come from he digital
Themis;314643 Wrote:
I owe a Cambridge player (640C) and i find that :
- its transport is pretty good, as good as my SB3. It replaces my SB
whenever i service the network/computers and it drives well enough my
dac. In my case, whatever differences may exist between the two of
them, they
JJZolx;314462 Wrote:
I'd definitely recommend having a CD player on hand for the times when
your SqueezeCenter server, or your network isn't available for whatever
reason. Or even just for when someone comes by with a CD that you want
to play on your stereo without having to rip it first.
sc53;314362 Wrote:
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?
For a low budget option, I'd suggest a used Marantz CD63 SE or CD67 SE.
They've got digital outputs, and they sound
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
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
If you're going into an outboard DAC, it doesn't really matter.
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Phil Leigh wrote:
If you are running it into your DAC(s), pretty much anything will do...
SuperQ wrote:
If you're going into an outboard DAC, it doesn't really matter.
What, you two guys don't believe that the CD transport is important? How
can you claim to be audiophiles?
Next you will claim
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
nicholasg;31 Wrote:
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
I'd definitely recommend having a CD player on hand for the times when
your SqueezeCenter server, or your network isn't available for whatever
reason. Or even just for when someone comes by with a CD that you want
to play on your stereo without having to rip it first.
If you're going to be
Nonreality;314461 Wrote:
I've got the older 971 and don't have any problems. Very good player
for the money. You probably weren't using the new Denon cable. Might
want to look into that. :)
That must be it :-)
I did try optical and coax and had the same issue (as did someothers on
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