Just received mine yesterday. It’s incredible!!! - it’s built like a very nicely finished tank!You beat me to it Phil regarding the Audiolab, getting quite a few good mentions of late. Me, if I could afford £2k+, Jay's Audio CDT, I haven't posted a link since to look at it, you'll want it
I elected to just go with a Cambridge Audio CXC for $350 because The CD Two/II was something like $5,000 and I'd rather spend the money on vinyl.
I did listen to the new CD5.1x - their flagship One Box CD player and man oh man if CD sounded this good in the 1990s it may have hung around and fended off digital. I love this CD player - but it's something like $30,000.
Quality CD Transport like Project/Rotel/Denon/Marantz & DAC from SW1X much better value
Products | SW1X Audio Design (sw1xad.co.uk)
CD Box RS2 T – Pro-Ject Audio Systems (project-audio.com)
HiFi Electronics – Pro-Ject Audio Systems (project-audio.com)
.
The DACs from SW1X are almost direct copies of Audionote DACs. They even use the same parts.
Just received mine yesterday. It’s incredible!!! - it’s built like a very nicely finished tank!
No, it's based on Ukrainian DAC producer — Abbass Audio https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=abbasaudio&_sop=12
Kondo , Voyd , Snell , Systemdek did they not copy AN designs
Imitation is a kind of artless Flattery
It also easily answers the question of whether cd transports matter (in SQ sense). Absolutely. That being compared (admittedly to aural memory) to the Cambridge CXC. That was very good indeed (into Denafrips Venus II) but the CD2Tmk3 is quite a bit better.Now don't you go upsetting me JTC, only seen one on YouTube, was mightily impressed with what looked like solid build and especially the way the cd sliding drawer opened and closed.
are almost direct copies of Audionote DACs. They even use the same parts.
Kondo , Voyd , Snell , Systemdek did they not copy AN designs
Imitation is a kind of artless Flattery
Nobody forced you to read or participate on this thread, thoughI'm not sure what makes my head hurt more... cd>dac discussion or pc>dac audio ... aaaaaaghhhhhhhh
Cambridge CXC. That was very good indeed (into Denafrips Venus II) but the CD2Tmk3 is quite a bit better.
Really? They look pretty similar to me. Certainly the chassis, plus SW1X are even using Audionote parts (capacitors and resistors)
Audionote DAC:
SW1X DAC:
I am sure people will draw their own conclusions...
I'm hoping daytonas post was tongue in cheek. Seems AN bought, copied or won in the court a large chunk of "their" designs.
Certainly - but please be aware I've only had it for a little over a day and so I've barely had a chance to listen to more than a handful of cds.Could you describe in what way?