Outstanding digital components

[goraman]

In your experience, what digital components have really amazed you? It can be anything from a CD player to a DAC to an MP3 player.

I'll start, it has to be my Apogee Mini DAC which just gets better and better, so musical and natural with no sense of mechanical interference, slightly oddball looks but then again, who wants convention? :



I'd have to say the dCS Puccini which really impressed me at the Manc show - very neutral, lively and real.



The Pioneer PDR-609 CD Recorder. These machines were so good that the copies were virtually indistinguishable from the originals. I mastered my 2004 album to one of these.



Denon DVD-A1. Had one of these a while back, extraordinary universal player with amazing video processing (aside from occasional chroma upsampling issues) and excellent, if not quite audiophile, sound quality. Built like a brick poo house.



Marantz SR-9600. Super flexible, more inputs than your average hi-fi shop and thundering cinema ability.

I also had the PD 609 recorder and your right,It made amazeing recordings but lacked in the playback department.
The little internal headphone amp with ajustable volume was a nice touch and didn't sound to bad with low impeadance headphones.
The special digital audio cd's got a little hard to find so I sold mine with a Pioneer Spec 1 and Spec 2 ,he is driveing some Klipsch La Scallas, The spec 2 after the Echo wars rebuild and mods did 355 watts RMS into 8 ohms per side before clipping. La Scallas are 106 DB. That scares the hell out of me!

I think one of the better deals in Dig.audio is the Music Hall 25.2 they sound awsome right out of the box and can be modded to the point of insanity.