Has anyone tried the Denon pro stuff? Their CD players used to be in regular use around local radio stations as I recall...
I forget the name, but there was a top loading techie CD player (1200?) which was superb I'm told...
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Has anyone tried the Denon pro stuff? Their CD players used to be in regular use around local radio stations as I recall...
I forget the name, but there was a top loading techie CD player (1200?) which was superb I'm told...
I can't go on and I can't go back, I don't feel so matter of fact,
I tried and tried to make good sense, What's the good to try it all again?
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The Studer 'D-730' was nice enough.the 'A-730' a bit unreliable
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STUNNING-Stude...QQcmdZViewItem
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Dave, the Techie one you're referring to is on page 2 of this thread - and yes, it was fab!Originally Posted by DSJR
The Denon ones are also very good, and these can be bought in most DJ/Pro-audio shops. They give a few 'high-end hi-fi' CDPs quite a hard-time!
Andre,
The Studer is quite nice, but not a patch on that EMT
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Just for the intrested.
These Drawmer unit are regarded as one of the best studio outboard gear manufacturers.They are built just over the back road from me.. (You can see on the rear pic 'Rotherham'
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STUNNING-Drawm...item19b7f9f48a
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Correcamundo..I've had a couple of Studer & Revox items, although they are (Were) industry standard i always felt a somewhat fragility about the units..My old 'PR99' open reel sounded real nice but i did have trouble with it on a couple of occasions. I felt the otari machines a better proffesional product even tho they were japanese..
Andre,
The Studer is quite nice, but not a patch on that EMT
Marco.
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You would love one of these. I'd snap someones hand off if they offered me one:I love it, and I'd use one without a second's thought!!
Just look at the build quality, ergonomics and user-friendliness of it, too. It's difficult to tell listening on a laptop, but I bet that the EMT would piss all over many (equivalently expensive, and more so) 'high-end hi-fi' CDPs!
Marco.
Sony CDP-3100 with controller
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Another sex machine is the Otari 'DTR-90' The handy thing with this machine is the complete control facia shown in the third picture comes away to form a remote control unit.
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I love that Sony - it's a beaut!
I believe that it comes into the category of 'engineered like a bastard'
Was it a broadcast machine, too? A lot of that stuff just makes much 'high-end' hi-fi look like (and often sound like) expensive toys...
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Beauty.. Aye it's a broadcast machine..7Kg of pure sex..I love that Sony - it's a beaut!
I believe that it comes into the category of 'engineered like a bastard'
Was it a broadcast machine, too? A lot of that stuff just makes much 'high-end' hi-fi look like (and often sound like) expensive toys...
Marco.
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CD Players from the 80s and 90s are just like the old Corollas - over engineered and was built like a truck.
I am not selling my Marantz CD10.
Even if it dies on me, I will stow it nicely into a corner somewhere in the house as a display....of an extinct 'legacy'.
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