The Cary 303/200 and 306/200 (both now discontinued) are cd players that
also have digital input and digital output.
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A lot of the higher-end units have a CD/Preamp feature. There is a MF
PRE-Cd 24 on Audiogon that looks nice:
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?dgtlplay1155219922 .
I'm assuming you don't already have a DVD player near the stereo setup,
but that might be a cheap transport option. One that
I ditto the DVD solution. I have a relatively cheap Toshiba DVD player
that I use for the occasional CD that I can't wait to rip in order
to listen to. However, IMHO, the SB beats the pants off any other
transport.
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sleepysurf
squeezebox2 (with elpac linear psu) to benchmark dac1, direct
Digital in? Out? Want to buy my Sony CDP-CA9ES? It's served me
faithfully. I haven't used it in a couple months now. Why shuffle CDs
when all my music is stored safely on a RAID array out in the garage.
Besides, it isn't like ripping (and encoding) actually takes that long.
It takes more time to
Why do I need a CD player?
Last week a buddy gave me four CDs from two recent gigs he and his band
played. I came home and popped one in the CD player and was listening
30 seconds after walking through the door. It would have taken me a
minimum of 10-15 minutes per CD to rip them, then do BMF
