I'm currently running a venerable but much loved Cyrus 2 amp and
equally ancient KEF Carlton 3 speakers. However the time has come to
replace my knackered Marantz CD player and I'm looking for
inspiration. I've got around £500 in the budget BUT (and this is a
big but) for boring architectural reasons, the CD player has to fit
into a space 10 inches deep (i.e. front to back)

Anyone got any suggestions? Length and Height can be as large as
needed but front to back no more than 10 inches...

TIA

"Stimpy" wrote in message
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I'm currently running a venerable but much loved Cyrus 2 amp and
equally ancient KEF Carlton 3 speakers. However the time has come to
replace my knackered Marantz CD player and I'm looking for
inspiration. I've got around £500 in the budget BUT (and this is a
big but) for boring architectural reasons, the CD player has to fit
into a space 10 inches deep (i.e. front to back)

Anyone got any suggestions? Length and Height can be as large as
needed but front to back no more than 10 inches...

TIA

A second hand Meridian 203 dac, the size of a shoe box, makes a
cheap transport sound very good. Price £100-150 on Ebay. I think one is on
there now. A new minisystem transport could be used to drive it or a
second hand Meridian transport but these do not come up so often.

Alan

"Alan Murphy" wrote in message
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"Stimpy" wrote in message
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I'm currently running a venerable but much loved Cyrus 2 amp and
equally ancient KEF Carlton 3 speakers. However the time has come
to
replace my knackered Marantz CD player and I'm looking for
inspiration. I've got around £500 in the budget BUT (and this is
a
big but) for boring architectural reasons, the CD player has to
fit
into a space 10 inches deep (i.e. front to back)

Anyone got any suggestions? Length and Height can be as large as
needed but front to back no more than 10 inches...

A second hand Meridian 203 dac, the size of a shoe box, makes a
cheap transport sound very good. Price £100-150 on Ebay. I think one
is on
there now. A new minisystem transport could be used to drive it or
a
second hand Meridian transport but these do not come up so often.

Hmmmm... Forgive my ignorance here but does this connect between the
'line out' on the CD player and the CD-in on the amp? Would I need a
mini CD player with any specific 'unusual' outputs?

I guess I could look at one of those little Denon 'lifestyle' CD
players together with such a DAC

In ,
Stimpy typed:
Hmmmm... Forgive my ignorance here but does this connect between the
'line out' on the CD player and the CD-in on the amp? Would I need a
mini CD player with any specific 'unusual' outputs?

I guess I could look at one of those little Denon 'lifestyle' CD
players together with such a DAC

Hi

You need to make sure that your CD player has a digital output, not just
line out.

Steve

"Alan Murphy" wrote in message
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The CD player used as transport must have a digital output. These
are quite
common. This can be either an electrical or optical interconnect.
Preferably an optical according to the Meridian manual as this
neither
generates, nor is susceptible to any interference.

I use a 203 dac (Ebay £103) optically conected to a Technics
SL-PG490
CD player (Richer £65) and this is far superior to my Marantz CD6000
OSE/LE
(Richer £200).

Thanks... So all I need to do now is find a decent CD player less than
10 inches deep with a digital or optical output :-)