Sony.
http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-TA-E1000ESD.html
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I did look at several of them but at the time most of the offerings from anything with the IAG group had slot loaders and reading numerous reports about scratched discs, that I also have experience of I ruled them all out. Both the Primare offerings look almost the same bar the mechanics. The Cyrus machines are well known for mech faults etc and again slot loading.
I didn’t t like the look of anything form Pro-Ject either. I was very tempted by the Jay's but lack of UK support ruled it out and DCS/PS Audio were way out of my price range!
The TEAC was the best other option by put I’d already purchased the Denon by then!
Fussy buggar aren’t I!
Blue displays seem to be fashionable. Most of my gear have a black facia and red dot matrix displays, save for my Teac DAC, which perversely has a silver facia and blue lens. (:doh:)
OLED displays certainly are fashionable atm. I know why as they can be programmed for any such device but I do worry about the longevity of them, I’ve seen several Melco's with dim parts of the display or burn in. I always used mine with the display off. I’ve held off on buying an OLED tv over our LCD as my wife’s Samsung phone OLED is wrecked, with severe burn in although she always has it on maximum brightness! :scratch:
The amber OLED in the TEAC is much nicer on the eyes! :)
I agree that the amber of the TEAC looks great, and imo the unit is only bettered looks-wise by Accuphase.
Not sure I agree about OLED tellies though - we bought our LG OLED before the lockdown, it was secondhand, it's on for many hours every day, and it's still good as new :) Might be a different story if used for gaming a lot.
Yes ours spends a lot of the daytime tuned to Sky News (not my doing), without issues so far. And if for instance the programme watched is paused, the screen goes darker after about a minute, presumably to help guard against this 'screen burn'. Most modern tellies probably do this.
Streaming gets a bad name at least partly because people are trying it with older dacs with early built in USB converters. The CD player goes straight to SPDIF using the coax and doesn't have that disadvantage, so it's an apples and pairs comparison.
I was in that camp until I bought a separate USB bridge and the improvement was massive.
The worst ones are the earlier 16/48 synchronous converters which are flat sounding and frankly unlistenable (rather like playing an MP3). The 24/96 and early 24/192 chips like XMOS that came next were better but still not quite there.
I looked up the Bryston and it has an early XMOS 24/192 converter. These can sound more lively than the older 16/48 chips but they are quite unrefined and have that "digital glare".
To make a fair comparison a recent bridge should be used. Singxer are very good for example. Done this way the difference is hard to hear for the same file, and you have the advantage of being able to stream hires files as well (but that's another debate I'll not get into here).
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I agree that poor USB implementation could be a reason for differences.
That assumes some basic level of control in the comparison - such as actually comparing the same mastering on CD and stream - which often hasn't even been considered, and so leads to an incorrect conclusion as to what is actually occurring.