Stop Gap CD player

[Peter Stockwell]

I think my CD player is going to take a long time to be fixed (see elsewhere). What's good at about £200 used ?

[Tony G]

For probably a lot less than that you could do a lot worse than a Marantz CD 52 Mk II SE.

[ReachtheSky]

How about less than GBP200 new!

Peter as a cheap temporary stop gap, the current basic Sony DVD players (Blue-Ray not necessary) give surprisingly adequate/good digital out to use as a Transport, providing your DAC has a good re-clocking circuit. As you have a 7510 I would imagine it would do the job. I’m sure the 7520 would do so.

If that’s not up to scratch you could then add a Behringer SRC 24/96 (with excellent re-clocking circuit) between your DVD player and DAC to give top results. And you’d have the benefit of a sample-rate-converter as a bonus – to up sample any source to 24/96 into your Stan DAC’s!

All new for less than GBP200!
Granville

[Peter Stockwell]

I have a Panasonic/DVD-HDD recorder for TV, maybe I should move things around so that I can put into the system. As you have pointed out I have the 7510, I could run the DVD player through the Dac, that would cost me peanuts. I reckon I could start there.

[Peter Stockwell]

For probably a lot less than that you could do a lot worse than a Marantz CD 52 Mk II SE.

There's a CD60 on ebay france that's currently at 2,50€ that is tempting ...

[Tony G]

Peter, the suggestion was made in all seriousness, I know a number of people other than myself who rate this above the much vaunted CD 63 KI signature.
I gather they are in reasonable supply on ebay UK under 50 quid - the proviso being it must be the Mk II Special Edition. I like my lightly modded one well enough to have bought a second one as a spare and it still gets almost equal play time with my much newer and more expensive Esound E5 signature.
It may be no CDX but I think you would be pleasantly surprised and it should handily shade the SB.
ciao,
TG

[Peter Stockwell]

Tony,

I did take your suggestion seriously, but I think my first port of call is to get a COAX cable to link the DVD/HDD recorder to the Beresford DAC. If I don't use this for CD playback it will still serve admirably when I watch TV. I never watch TV in real time, it's always time shifted.

I'll keep my eyes open in case CD playback via the Beresford is unsatisfactory.

[Tony G]

Fair enough, only makes sense to use what you have already if it fills the need.
I just did not think the CD 60 to be in the same game.
Hope you get some sense from the wretched courier company.
I have had some less than ecstatic experiences of them myself, though not to the extent of your present contretemps.

[ReachtheSky]

Peter, Good luck with the Panasonic DVD. I hope it sounds OK. Unfortunately most DVD players sound awful – they tamper with the signal path. But in my experience the current Sony DVD’s are one of the exceptions and have a reasonable “digital out.”

[Peter Stockwell]

But in my experience the current Sony DVD’s are one of the exceptions and have a reasonable “digital out.”

I mooted the stop gap CD player with the missus, she was lukewarm, but she didn't look at me like I was crazy. However, The box count is high enough at ours so one more DVD player wouldn't go down well.

I just ordered the Coax cable to get the DVD player connected to the Beresford, I have two cables already but they are too short. In any case the sound currently goes from the DVD via HDMI to the TV and then RCA to Din on the preamp. I'll be bypasing the processing in the TV. So it's a win situation with TV watching (Never watch anything in real time on the TV).