Serge Auckland wrote:

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"Rob" wrote in message
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Serge Auckland wrote:

"Eiron" wrote in message
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Brian Gaff wrote:
You know I reached under my bed and found my old Phillips CD100
the other day. It still works!
A bit touchy to seizmic events, slow to find tracks, band a bit on
the bright side of comfortable, but it does still play CDs.

Be an antique soon I guess. sigh.

Double blind test. You know you want to!


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Eiron.

I've just been given a Marantz CD63, which was the Marantz-badged
version of the CD100. Compared it to my current Meridian 206,
couldn't say there was any obvious difference, even though the
Meridian was going to my 'speakers SP-DIF to SP-DIF direct, and the
Marantz was going through my A-D converter first.

Just goes to show that if a product is audibly transparent, it's
transparent, and one transparent product will sound like another
transparent product.

If I can be bothered, I may do some level-matched blind testing, but
even sighted and not accurately level matched, there really wasn't
anything to choose between them.


Do you mean 'no difference between the transports', as opposed to
complete units including DACs?

Rob

My Meridian 206 is being used purely as a transport, feeding SP-DIF
directly into my loudspeakers. The CD63's analogue outputs are going
through an ADC then on to the loudspeakers, so I'm comparing a
transport with a complete unit, redigitised.

S.
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http://audiopages.googlepages.com
Perhaps I should add my 'speakers are Meridian DSP5000/1500s, so they
only have SP-DIF inputs.

S.

Can you not connect the Marantz via analogue, and compare that with your
super sound digital? I don't think you'd expect a difference - never
know though.

Rob