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Your experience:a cdp that gets best of lesser cds

I'm looking for a cd player that will get more out of the playback and sound of lesser quality recordings and/or poorly remastered cd's from the past (example: 70's soul/ 50's and 60's jazz remasters. By "more" I mean less thinness, leaness, in the sonics and more weight and lows, yet not rolled off or muted in the highs. In other words, a player that will dig deeper- do more with a lesser cd. I currently have an excellent player, the Modwright Sony 999ES, fully loaded, but synergy-wise it's not maximizing in my system. I'm looking for a used player in the $2500 -$3k area that will improve the sound quality on some of the lesser cd's I own. The one thing about this hobby that frustrates me no end is the synergy thing which can take away great performance from a quality piece of gear. My system: LSA/DK Signature int, Reimer Wind River GS, Modwright Sony,Acoutstic Zen cabling, Shunyata Hydra- various aftermarket PC's. Do you know of such a player?
foster_9
tvad
9,467 posts
 
I'm very tired of burning, churning, and losing money.
Foster_9 (Threads | Answers)
I hear 'ya brother. I still do a little churning, too.

Before you play "Survivor: CD Player Overboard", give Dan Wright a call or an email and explain your goal. He might be able to help with a slight resistor tweak.
newbee
4,093 posts
 
Foster 9, why have just one CDP. You can get an inexpensive tube CDP, stuff it with different tubes until you get the tone you want, then play your bad CD's on it and use your good one for the reference stuff. :-)

Other than that, you can't have it all in one player. Tvad is right.
reubent
3,587 posts
 
I once had a local audiophile friend bring his Nohr CD-1 tube cd player over. It had an uncanny ability to make bad CDs sound OK and to make great CDs sound only OK too!

Enjoy,

TIC
foster_9 OP
1,610 posts
 
Newbee, thanks but I already a second player the Jolida JD 100.
jeff_jones
418 posts
 
Njoe Tjoeb, box stock version & ask for suggestions on tubes if you buy it new. In my opinion.
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