In article , Woody
wrote:

I had the opportunity to hear a CD on one of original Philips 14-bit
machines a while ago - a CD104 IMSMC.

Do you know I think it sounded better than the modern stuff - just as
clean and detailed but somehow just smoother.

I was happy enough with an early Marantz player that used the early Philips
14x4 chipset. Admittedly, I added another passive low-pass filter stage,
though. This was the days when Toko made good low-pass-filter modules you
could buy from Maplin, etc.

My all-time favourite CD player was actually a Meridian 200 series CD
transport feeding their 563 ADC. Alas, the deck does struggle with some CDs
so is a bit fussy. And the ADC can't cope with 96k/24, etc, (and has no USB
input) so isn't up to playing high rez files from a computer.

However that said, the player I was using recently developed a fault. So
I'm currently using my old Meridian 200 deck feeding a DAC Magic. Sounds
good to me.

Jim

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