Hi Fbhifi,
Athough Dgad has made their decision NOT to upgrade their CD replay this has indeed been a highly informative thread.
You nailed it when you said 'THE MEITNER RIG TOTALLY RE-VITALISED MY CD COLLECTION'...this was precisely the point I was trying to make earlier in the Thread.
I stumbled upon the Meitner equipment in Jonathan Tinns (contactable at info@chambersaudio.com) Tenor / Kharma room at the June 2003 Stereophile show in SFO.
I had never heard of Meitner and had no pre-conceptions
..however after just a few seconds into an old Van Cliburn solo piano CD I knew I was listing to a breakthru in digital re-play...I know what a real Steinway sound like.
I ordered the Meitner solely on how it rendered CD.
In fact, I didnt hear a single SACD until I got my unit in January 2004 ...for me SACD and the discovery of PURE DSD and its parallel to Direct to Disc Vinyl was the icing on the cake !!
My contibution to this thread is not to knock Vinyl...I love it and still have an extensive collection...I was simply trying to point out two things.
1. The Meitner will uplift a CD collection beyound your wildest expectations...demonstrably close to vinyl.
2. Digital audio is not all bad & not descending to MP3...
Just as HDTV is raising the bar in video / TV we should applaud and support both DVD-a and SACD for raising the bar on digital audio re-production.
Finally, dont knock what myself & Fbhifi are saying if you have not heard the Meitner rig in a truly revealing system.
A Meitnerised Philips SACD 1000 at $2k and Meitner DCC2 at just under 10k is both sonically better & cheaper than any top drawer CD/SACD player combo with conventional Pre-amp and interconnects...
Several audio associates of mine are changing over to this simpler & sonically superior solution & putting money in their pockets !!
This I think will be my last post on this thread..
If anyone wishes to view my simple 'less is more' system they can do so on audiogon...
If anyone wishes to E-mail me directly you are most welcome.
Yours in Music
Ceol
Athough Dgad has made their decision NOT to upgrade their CD replay this has indeed been a highly informative thread.
You nailed it when you said 'THE MEITNER RIG TOTALLY RE-VITALISED MY CD COLLECTION'...this was precisely the point I was trying to make earlier in the Thread.
I stumbled upon the Meitner equipment in Jonathan Tinns (contactable at info@chambersaudio.com) Tenor / Kharma room at the June 2003 Stereophile show in SFO.
I had never heard of Meitner and had no pre-conceptions
..however after just a few seconds into an old Van Cliburn solo piano CD I knew I was listing to a breakthru in digital re-play...I know what a real Steinway sound like.
I ordered the Meitner solely on how it rendered CD.
In fact, I didnt hear a single SACD until I got my unit in January 2004 ...for me SACD and the discovery of PURE DSD and its parallel to Direct to Disc Vinyl was the icing on the cake !!
My contibution to this thread is not to knock Vinyl...I love it and still have an extensive collection...I was simply trying to point out two things.
1. The Meitner will uplift a CD collection beyound your wildest expectations...demonstrably close to vinyl.
2. Digital audio is not all bad & not descending to MP3...
Just as HDTV is raising the bar in video / TV we should applaud and support both DVD-a and SACD for raising the bar on digital audio re-production.
Finally, dont knock what myself & Fbhifi are saying if you have not heard the Meitner rig in a truly revealing system.
A Meitnerised Philips SACD 1000 at $2k and Meitner DCC2 at just under 10k is both sonically better & cheaper than any top drawer CD/SACD player combo with conventional Pre-amp and interconnects...
Several audio associates of mine are changing over to this simpler & sonically superior solution & putting money in their pockets !!
This I think will be my last post on this thread..
If anyone wishes to view my simple 'less is more' system they can do so on audiogon...
If anyone wishes to E-mail me directly you are most welcome.
Yours in Music
Ceol