[Greg Grainger]

In article ,
David Spear wrote:
"codifus" wrote in message
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On May 22, 7:12 pm, (Greg Grainger) wrote:

What is the consensus of the group as to what the best-*sounding* unit of
this type might be? (I'm thinking in terms of CDs and DVDs particularly

I've never understood the whole concept of the "high-end CD
transport". The purpose of such a device is to read a stream of 1's
and 0's off of a spinning disc and output the (relatively
low-frequency) digital bitstream. Period. The bitstream is EXACTLY THE
SAME, BIT FOR BIT, coming out of a

Walmart Electro-Sonic $39 special (assuming it has a digital output)
as out of a Krell. Except for the highest-end (read most expensive)
transports, they all use the same S/PDIF encoder chips which are made
but very few manufacturers.

I was thinking in terms of a unit like my old Revox, rather than separate
transport-and-DAC. Several people have pointed out that the latter is the
way to go.

The Revox works fine, thank you very much, but it doesn't play DVDs or
MP-3s, much less DIV-X, so I have ended up with several 'specialist'
units scattered around the living room. I'm looking for a kind of
all-in-one unit that produces audiophile-quality sound and also does a
good job with DVDs.

Still researching,
Greg.
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Greg Grainger grainger(at)vex.net

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