I think maybe you are still being a bit cash-happy at that price if
sound quality is the criterion. £50 to £70 should be more than
enough.
And it ought to handle DVDs too at that price. d
I agree with Don - cheap transport. But what I'd do is put the money
into a seperate DAC. I can't hear much if any difference between
different CD and DVD players as transports - I'm using a DVD player. I
think on this player the optical output is a twinge better than the
coax.
On the other hand I and others can hear differences between complete CD
players, which leads me to believe that it's the better DAC that gives
you the better sound. There are some interesting DAC boards on ebay if
you fancy putting one together. I compiled a list of available DAC kits
and modules. See below
#DAC kits
http://www.sound4sale.com/ Link DAC
http://www.deregle.co.uk/pages/24f.htm was Link DAC
http://diyparadise.com/dacs.html Yeo's DAC kit
http://diyparadise.com/mar06/gg.html Yeo's tube stage
http://www.octave-electronics.com/Kits/dac.shtml Etude 1716 DAC -
CS8414+PCM1716 £87
http://www.octave-electronics.com/Star/07dac.shtml Etude review
http://members.chello.nl/~m.heijlige...tml/dactop.htm Tent Labs DAC
CS8412+PCM63
http://www.kandkaudio.com/digitalaudio.html K and K RAKK DAC
CS8416+PCM1794 $249
www.hagtech.com/chime.html Hagtech Chime DAC $599 halfkit
http://www.dddac.de/ Doede Douma. DDDAC2000 NOS CS8412+1543 89€
http://www.steinmusic.de/audiofino/komp-weitere.html NONOS DAC 698€
http://www.audionotekits.com/ Audio Note DAC 1.1 and 2.1, Zero DAC
http://www.scott-nixon.com/dac.htm Scott Nixon Tubedac $100 to $200
http://www.audiosector.com/ TDA1543 DAC Peter Daniel
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/attac...amp=1112327211
Schematic
http://www.audiocraftersguild.com/Xdac/dacprice.htm Audiocrafters
Guild X-DAC 3.0 CS8412, CS4328, AD1891 $547
www.vdac.co.uk Chris Found DAC kits UK, latest is VDAC-4 £800
http://diyaudiocraft.com/ Ultimate Twin DAC 8414+1541A (DIY Audio
tube-lover)
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showt...threadid=55808
Ultimate Twin thread by Tube_Lover
http://eshop.diyclub.biz/product_inf...413e5fa3c7e0fd
DAC AH CS8414 as digital input reciver, 8 pcs of TDA1543 in parallel
$135
http://us.hifidiy.net/index.asp TDA 1543 kit ebay $88 4 Philips
TDA1543 IC chips.
Digital receiver using CS8148 and Output OP Amp using OPA604AP.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Philips-TDA154...QQcmdZViewItem
http://stores.ebay.co.uk/AudioDIYLab 24bit, 192kHz Digital receiver :
CS8414, DAC chip : PCM1739 $139.99
http://www.curcioaudio.com/cddes_3.htm Curcio CD12V (1541)
http://www.tnt-audio.com/clinica/tnt1541_e.html TNT tda1541 DAC Giorgio
Pozzoli 2003 uses 8412
http://www.milossaluciano.com/Reinas...alessandro.htm Digital
Renaissance Tube, Taiwan 1543
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Philips-TDA154...QQcmdZViewItem
$88 1543 DAC