I’ve never heard one but these are meant to be up there with the best Transports ever made:
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?m...2F222798696660
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I’ve never heard one but these are meant to be up there with the best Transports ever made:
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?m...2F222798696660
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Originally Posted by farflungstar
Yes having tangible media certainly has a certain added sense of being involved/with/control of the music. Whatever cdp you get (two box, top loader, single unit or whatever) I highly recommend that you ensure it has the ability of also taking an external digital source. This way you can, at a very low cost, try out streaming local digital files or files from the internet. Try not to lock yourself out from this possibility.
Judging from your other stuff I'm sure you will be getting a top quality CDP which will have a top quality DAC on board. Good to be able to access that DAC in more than one way.
just my 2p
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The guy will ship but having read dozens and dozens of opinions it seems although it's a good machine it really benefits from a GNS mod which can only be done in the states. The mod is serious money which is fine but customs and Spain are a nightmare. Hmmm
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I hold a torch for the original Shangling CDP with the valve output stage. Don’t see many of them about these days though and the ones that come up go for almost as much as when they were new.
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Hi Adrian,
If it helps, I've heard these CDPs in the past and they're FAB! With valves, and your Tannoys, it will be a match made in heaven, as the Opus has a very open, lucid, detailed but grain-free sound - one could almost call it 'vinyl-like'. It is firmly from the 'musical sounding' school of digital replay, free from 'glare', yet brim-full of insight, and from an era when CDPs were 'done right'...
At the price being asked, and in that condition, the unit on pfm is a veritable bargain... My advice? Snap it up now before someone else beats you to it!!!
Marco.
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I'm considering going the other way back to vinyl and may even part with my Lector CDP 7 mk III which is about as good as CDPs get...
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Exactly what I thought
Hi Adrian,
If it helps, I've heard these CDPs in the past and they're FAB! With valves, and your Tannoys, it will be a match made in heaven, as the Opus has a very open, lucid, detailed but grain-free sound - one could almost call it 'vinyl-like'. It is firmly from the 'musical sounding' school of digital replay, free from 'glare', yet brim-full of insight, and from an era when CDPs were 'done right'...
At the price being asked, and in that condition, the unit on pfm is a veritable bargain... My advice? Snap it up now before someone else beats you to it!!!
Marco.
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The Lector is an incredible unit!
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Told the guy I'll sleep on it. Seems like a decent bloke.
Technics SP10 mk2
Jan Allaerts MC 1 Boron mk1 cart
Miyajima Shilabe cart
Hashimoto HM-X SUT
Siggwan (gimballed not unipivot) Cocobola 12"
Aurorasound Vida LCR Phonostage
The Truth linestage
Dave Slagle Autoformer Volume Controller
Cary 805c SET amps
Audio Note ANe-SPX speakers
Townshend Isolda speaker cables
Cardas Golden Presence interconnects
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I had a Tag DVD32R for several years and it was ok. Dreadfully temperamental even after the fixes and the sound wasn't quite what it was cracked up to be. I tried it with Tag DAC20; AV32R and the Young DAC. When it packed up (again) I replaced it with a Primare BD32 which is streets better.
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