fu01 Posted April 16, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 Hi dear forumers, I am getting a CD player to be used solely for my headphone amp-headphone, thus only using the line-out of the cd player. May I know does it make a lot of difference in getting a budget marantz(say 4000 or 5001) or a mid-range one(around $600 - $900)? I know I should try to post this question in headphone forum(e.g. sgheadphone/headphonehaven/head-fi) but most of the forumers there are using portable/mp3 sources. Hope to have some assistance here.
fu01 Posted April 16, 2007 Author Posted April 16, 2007 Hmm, maybe let me repharse myself. Since this is the first time I am buying a CDP myself, I am wondering if between a budget player and mid-range player, the difference is in the lens used, or function or does the line out 'upgraded' as well. My mid-range players are like NADC542, cd7300 Sad to say I am not comfortable in bringing my cans/amp/interconnect around to auditions... Just to add further, Cans: AKG K501, Audio Technica ATH-A950LTD Amp: Heed canamp Interconnect: QED 2
2100 Posted April 17, 2007 Posted April 17, 2007 The CD7300, erm still does not sound good, but I guess there is an audible difference from the really cheap stuff. Actually quite a lot depends on your preferences. If you are aiming for $600-900 range, can try out this. http://www.ahfartaudio.com/products/dugood.html Glory Year going for $680 with freebies. The other model Boundless I think its $860. A lot of goodies like seperate power supply www.dugood.com You will never ever get such engineering/design with players from NAD/Rotel/Marantz at that price. If you can up your budget, check out the Consonance CD120. Can try the NOS (non oversampling) CD120 Linear, or the CD120 version with upsampling and very high performance Cirrus CS4396 DAC. Similar VAM1202 transport, Sony lens easily replacable and available. Its 1.2k retail at New Disc Village, think can get some slight discount. The player shd match well with your K501, which sounds a bit dry. The last thing I wanna listen to on headphones (which exposes everything in detail) is that kind of very irritating analytical sound. Headphones can get you listener fatique very fast. I know coz when I lisiten to my HD650 on silver Zu mobius cables on solid state amp its like cutting your ears with razor. Now i am on tubes.
SiriuslyCold Posted April 17, 2007 Posted April 17, 2007 Sad to say I am not comfortable in bringing my cans/amp/interconnect around to auditions... couldn't you just bring the phones to auditions? - if the amp is a hassle to bring around. surely this is the best way to tell if a CDP will work for you or not
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