"JustMe" wrote in message
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Contrarily, on my "proper" hifi setup, I use an Audiolab 8000CD as my main
digital front end, which I bought having heard many options up to the £1k
mark. I listened to the common options at the time costing half the amount
(Marantz CD63KI Sig, Arcam Alpha 6 etc) and was very happy to spend the
extra, based solely on my own feelings of sound quality. If the bulbs
didn't
keep failing in the LCD, it would be the perfect CD player (for me).


Have you ever tried the experiment of plugging your PC line output into your
"proper" amplifier? To get a meaningful comparison with the Audiolab you'd
have to rip the audition CDs uncompressed into the PC, I think, but that
only takes about 2 minutes per CD on my PC. When I bought the Denson about
5 years ago I auditioned it against a £500 player (Rega if I recall) and a
Naim that was also around £1000. In that audition the Denson won hands down.
But that audition wasn't in the comfort of my own home, and now I wonder if
other factors made the players sound different.

Tom