CDP or Streaming with SEG?

[Intenso]

Very happy streaming Flacs via a SBT using my SEG but wondered if there would be any improvement using my CD's if I bought a transport.

I suspect any improvement would be marginal but wondered what other people's opinion was?

[Landloper]

Very happy streaming Flacs via a SBT using my SEG but wondered if there would be any improvement using my CD's if I bought a transport.

I suspect any improvement would be marginal but wondered what other people's opinion was?

I use my SEG with a Cambridge CXC transport to good effect. I prefer the sound of this combination to that of SEG and files from Mac via a USB [or indeed USB from any of the DACs I have at the moment.] Convenience is forgone, but I am more likely to listen to the work on the CD all the way through rather than idly flitting from on piece to another as I have found myself doing with the computer as a source.

The marginal improvements - CDT, linear power, and so forth, seem to stack up in my set up.

I use the transport/SEG pairing for critical listening and computer lossless files via optical into the SEG for less intense sessions.

Kind of 'as well as not instead'.

[Intenso]

Thanks John,

Funny enough it was the Cambridge CXC that I was thinking of getting.

[Bonky]

I fully endorse the views on the Cambridge CXC transport + Stan's DAC;its just as good, if not better, than my AlloBoss + RPi steaming set-up.

BW

R

[Landloper]

Thanks John,

Funny enough it was the Cambridge CXC that I was thinking of getting.

The CXC seems a perfect marriage of price, performance, and build to me, Tony. It is a basic unit - no track programming etc, but the mechanism is quiet and quick to locate tracks. The remote is decent too and the user can turn off the display. I bought an open box from Richer sounds and paid £35 on top for a 6 year service guarantee. No regrets.

[StanleyB]

Very happy streaming Flacs via a SBT using my SEG but wondered if there would be any improvement using my CD's if I bought a transport.

I suspect any improvement would be marginal but wondered what other people's opinion was?
From my experience, it is more than just marginal. The SEG was partly designed to partner a CD player so that I could extract more sound out of the digital data encoded in a CD. Once you hear those extra notes etc that you never knew existed on those discs that you might have owned for decades, it all becomes a lot clearer. A typical example is the JMJ CD Concert in China. The video of that concert is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTyAtn177zo
And that CD is a couple of decades old. Play it through something else, and then trough the SEG for comparison.

[Landloper]

'Once you hear those extra notes etc that you never knew existed on those discs that you might have owned for decades, it all becomes a lot clearer

+1

[MikeMusic]

Even cheaper than a CXC will be a Pioneer Stable Platter. I play my PD-S703 through a Caiman and have a very nice sound

[Theadmans]

Even cheaper than a CXC will be a Pioneer Stable Platter. I play my PD-S703 through a Caiman and have a very nice sound

Funnily enough I use a PD-S705 which is virtually identical to your PD-S703. I bought mine in Mint condition on eBay for £39.

It does make a good transport as you can switch off the analogue output.

I am kind of tempted by all the rave reviews for the CXC though...I am currently considering getting one as a wee Christmas present to myself.

[Yomanze]

Funnily enough I use a PD-S705 which is virtually identical to your PD-S703. I bought mine in Mint condition on eBay for £39.

It does make a good transport as you can switch off the analogue output.

I am kind of tempted by all the rave reviews for the CXC though...I am currently considering getting one as a wee Christmas present to myself.

I prefer the Pioneer DV-505 or DV-717 to the stable platters, better focus, and cost peanuts. I think their use of a RAM buffer and re-reading on error makes a difference.

[walpurgis]

I prefer the Pioneer DV-505 or DV-717 to the stable platters, better focus, and cost peanuts. I think their use of a RAM buffer and re-reading on error makes a difference.

I have a DV-717 and a couple of PD-S505 Precision CD players. The PD-S505 Precision wins in my system.

[Yomanze]

I have a DV-717 and a couple of PD-S505 Precision CD players. The PD-S505 Precision wins in my system.

...I believe this has a clock upgrade?

I do find now though, that a decent USB to SPDIF converter beats CD / DVD transports in terms of SQ.