CD Player-Recommendations for a friend.

[Rare Bird]

No, it's a 524. As I said, it's not common.

I say '542' as i used one for a month or so, it had HDCD decoder onboard, sounded nice till i dropped on a Cambridge Audio 'S700' Isomagic HDCD DAC come isolation i could use with the Sony.. I still have my HDCD Yes & King Crimson CDee's..

[Rare Bird]

My CD72 replaced a 524. I find the CD72 to be a far better sounding CDP to my ears...

Ive had a 'CD72T' aswell, had it upgraded to 'CD92' ..I had a thing about HDCD at that time..

[synsei]

Often thought about upgrading mine but unsure as to whether it would be possible now, or even worth the effort. It sounds bloody good as is...

[RMutt]

I say '542' as i used one for a month or so, it had HDCD decoder onboard, sounded nice till i dropped on a Cambridge Audio 'S700' Isomagic HDCD DAC come isolation i could use with the Sony.. I still have my HDCD Yes & King Crimson CDee's..

I still have an Isomagic, I used to use it clock locked with the Cambridge Audio Discmagic transport but my Rega DAC blew it away. I'm still using the Discmagic. HDCD never took off did it?

[walpurgis]

I had various Cambridge DACs including the Isomagic until I bought a Theta Cobalt, then there was no going back, the Cobalt was vastly superior. Since then I upgraded to the Theta Chroma and currently have a Theta DS Pro Progeny, but mainly use my Monarchy Audio M22B.

[pjdowns]

Have you seen this one Shane?

http://theartofsound.net/forum/showt...bBEE-cd-player