Hello ,
I am playing CDs through my Anthem amplifier. I am using a Panasonic UB820 4k Player. I know the Panasonic player as not got the best of Dacs on board so i sent it bitstream via Optical cable into the Anthem. The panasonic is only used for transport and I heard you can have a cheap CD Player for transport as long as you feed the signal into a good Dac. I thought it would sound very good but it sounds terrible. I find the cd sound is all boxed in. No soundstage whatsoever. I then switched my pure dab radio on to compare the music. Surely it should sound terrible compared to a CD. To my surprise it sounds fantastic. Very musical I must say.
The music is disengaged from the speakers and its got a wide open soundstage and my feet are tapping. Does it mean we can pump lots of money into equipment and still not get satisfaction. Sometimes we are better off with cheap equipment to get musical enjoyment.
I am playing CDs through my Anthem amplifier. I am using a Panasonic UB820 4k Player. I know the Panasonic player as not got the best of Dacs on board so i sent it bitstream via Optical cable into the Anthem. The panasonic is only used for transport and I heard you can have a cheap CD Player for transport as long as you feed the signal into a good Dac. I thought it would sound very good but it sounds terrible. I find the cd sound is all boxed in. No soundstage whatsoever. I then switched my pure dab radio on to compare the music. Surely it should sound terrible compared to a CD. To my surprise it sounds fantastic. Very musical I must say.
The music is disengaged from the speakers and its got a wide open soundstage and my feet are tapping. Does it mean we can pump lots of money into equipment and still not get satisfaction. Sometimes we are better off with cheap equipment to get musical enjoyment.