They don't have endless health & safety dictators nor a diversity section to create endless paperwork and additional cost!
www.dutchaudioclassics.nl
Likely no CE certification compliance, no environmental compliance with regards to manufacturing or legal and safe disposal of waste, non compliance with how they treat their production workers, etc etc.
Which is why their economy is booming while we head into recession!
Are you suggesting that workers being safe and healthy, is a bad thing?
They’re economy maybe booming but very very large parts of the population are very very poor. They have always been a very industrious empire but they do so at the expense of a lot there population and there surroundings.
Yup. decent DACs have been around for decades. I bought a Philips CD473 in 1988 and it had one of the TDA1541 DACs. The TDA1541A was released later and there were S1 and S2 versions, including single crown and double crown releases, offering slightly different S/N ratios. My CD player sounded great in 1988 and it's still revered. You can only take DAC silicon so far and I don't think modern DACs are fundamentally better at what they do and new ones don't necessarily sound better. The supporting circuit s play a large part and I bet a TDA1541 derivative could be implemented today and nobody would notice any real flaws or anomalies in its design or sonic signature. It would be interesting to build a CD player using parts used in players from the 1980s just to hear how good they sound. I've said it many times, but the Red Book CD standard is over 40 years old now and reached its technical peak many years ago. CD has reached a technical dead end and there's nothing else to squeeze out of this astounding, but old format. There's nothing you can do to increase the format's 1411kbps data rate, or improve the optics, servo, transport or the error correction used to read discs. Some fanatics run the DACs at higher sampling rates, but it won't really affect the final sound quality. Any modern CD player over £300 is overpriced and spending more is pointless. The most expensive DACs from ESS or AKM are £50 when bought in bulk and they don't offer anything radically different to their 40 year old ancestors. CD data passing through a modern 24 bit DAC won't receive any more sound quality and CD sound quality can't be 'polished' by a modern DAC. The Red Book standard is set in stone. I'd argue any modern format using a modern DAC won't sound much better than CD anyway. Sound quality can't be increased forever and human hearing has its limits. Higher numbers are fascinating to nerds, but don't necessarily translate into incredible sound quality. Companies selling very expensive CD players do their best to trick you into thinking their product has somehow re-invented the wheel and can give you much better sound than a player from decades ago. They will give up eventually and all companies will release streaming devices to replace CD players, when the inevitable CD revival appears and then fades again. Streaming is the future and there are several DACs out there to support all known formats. My Audiolab Omnia's DAC, like the ones in many devices, supports bit rates and sampling frequencies far above any modern available format. It's nice to have future proofing, but when will these super high res sound formats arrive and do we really need them? Been looking for the old DACs and I can't believe they still make the TDA1541 unless someone found a drawer full and decided to use them.TDA1541 is a DAC designed by Philips in 1979....
Philips TDA1541 - A Monolithic Dual 16-Bit D/A Converter - DutchAudioClassics.nl
On March 8, 1979 Philips publicly demonstrated a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference called Philips Introduce Compact Disc in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
Hi there! I was considering purchasing a cd transport player. I'm thinking either the Shanling ET3 or the Audiolab 6000CDT. I assume both are good transports? Any feedback on these 2? Or perhaps something else? Thanks!
I've no experience of either model, but I would hope any CD transport's optics and error correction could lift all the zeros and ones from a CD without dropping any along the way. PC drives do it for around £20 and bit for bit copies of CDs can be created. I keep saying it, but CD drives and the required onboard firmware are cheap as chips, no pun intended. The industry offers transports and players costing thousands of pounds and the components doing the heavy lifting cost very little. I read a review years ago of a Cary CD pleyer costing around £6000 and it had a then £7 (seven) Sanyo CD drive inside it. This stuff's ancient and not expensive to make. If you want a decent CD player, go for the Marantz stuff at £300 or so. The matching amps are also decent for the money.
And to you, merry Xmas. My system doesn’t warrant more expenditure for a transport. It’s not my my main source and I really only got it for a little bit of music I want hard copies of. I use it with a Chord DAC. On another forum a couple of people have upgraded to the 9000cdt and stated subtle but clear improvements. As always, these things are difficult to quantify unless precisely level matched and listened to side by side but Audiolab are not usually prone too much to marketing B/S so I have little doubt there are differences. Whether they are worth the extra, only the buyer can decide but there is also better build quality to consider. Then there is the other ‘issue’ of whether you prefer the difference in sound. I chose the 6000A (amplifier) over the 7000A as I simply preferred it. Actually, I went to RS on a whim and bought the two for a quick home trial fully expecting to return both after the weekend (I have other amplifiers). The 6000A has stayed ever since.
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