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Using a lap top cd drive instead of highend cd player

I play cd's through my laptops on board cd drive to take advantage of my Audionote 3.1 DAC. To me it makes sense that this is as good or better than using a higher end CD player.  I would hazzard a guess that few cd players have a digital converter equal to my Audionote.

Or am I missing something here.


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pkvintage OP
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Excellent info from all. I have a Pioneer DVD DV 563A-S with 2 chanel audio rca's. It also has an optical and coaxial digital audio out. 

Would the Pioneer connect straight to my Dac via the coaxial or will my prodigy cube have to play a role in this?
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The Pioneer would simply connect to the AN RCA input. I'm guessing that your dac has RCA and BNC inputs.
What coax cable are you using? The quality and length of the cable significantly influences sound quality.

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The DAC has 1 coax in and R/L rca out to the preamp.
Canare LV-61S coaxial cable 1 meter


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Let us know how it works out. Is the Coax In on the DAC RCA or is it BNC?


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 A bit of FWIW from me. I first doubted the possibility of being successful using a computer setup with an external DAC, in as much as I am not especially gifted for all things technical. I left most of the work to a person that understood the concepts and practices of such an arrangement, and in short, when set up properly, it freaks me out that it is possible for the computer setup to sonically outweigh CD alone as much as it does.
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