OK, so... I get it. The glossy world of advertising is... well, advertising. Streaming doesn't sound that great. Playing music from your hard drive has to deal with your system crashing, your battery running out, you being unable to find your charger, because you left it at work, the file being unable to play because your VLC or iTunes went dead.
So, I am tired of listening to low quality audio through my high end system, or annoyed by the inconvenience of everything it is supposed to be, but isn't. Distracted by so much else that I find myself coming home, putting on music, (cooking, doing some work, bieng a dad) and then realising about three hours later, that I didn't get to listen to that music at all, despite the five or six attempts I made at making it work. Instead, I listened to my upstars neighbour's Guns and Roses through the ceiling.
Don't get me wrong, the source stuff I have is all good gear, but I find myself yearning for a simpler and more robust medium. A record player comes to mind, as does a CD player. You know, you go to the shelf, select the album, place it in the device. Press play.
And it plays music. Doesn't run out of battery. Doesn't crash. Doesn't 'fail to open'.
So. To support the limitiations of my hard-disk based sources, I am going to buy a proper CD transport. I am going to start listening to the silver disks again. I will put myself though the inconvenience of badly moulded covers that crack, and a product that is heavy, and takes up real space. I will do this gladly, if it means I can just bosh the title in the machine and press play.
So... For 1K Euro, my best option seems to be the 'Project RC' and for a bit more, the 'Cyrus CDT'. I will run this through a Musical fidelity V90 Dac, an Electrocomaniet PI-2, and Standmounted Elac BS244s. The idea is to also upgrade the DAC at some point, and the Project do a nice little combo with the twinned Project Dac (my dealer recommended this). So... it is worth forking out the little extra for the Cyrus? The European price of the Cyrus is around 1120, or thereabouts.
So... question is, what would you recommend for around Euro 1K CD transport? I am open to ideas.
Thanks so much in advance for all and any help. Excuse me if this has been covered in the forum before.
Pyramus.
So, I am tired of listening to low quality audio through my high end system, or annoyed by the inconvenience of everything it is supposed to be, but isn't. Distracted by so much else that I find myself coming home, putting on music, (cooking, doing some work, bieng a dad) and then realising about three hours later, that I didn't get to listen to that music at all, despite the five or six attempts I made at making it work. Instead, I listened to my upstars neighbour's Guns and Roses through the ceiling.
Don't get me wrong, the source stuff I have is all good gear, but I find myself yearning for a simpler and more robust medium. A record player comes to mind, as does a CD player. You know, you go to the shelf, select the album, place it in the device. Press play.
And it plays music. Doesn't run out of battery. Doesn't crash. Doesn't 'fail to open'.
So. To support the limitiations of my hard-disk based sources, I am going to buy a proper CD transport. I am going to start listening to the silver disks again. I will put myself though the inconvenience of badly moulded covers that crack, and a product that is heavy, and takes up real space. I will do this gladly, if it means I can just bosh the title in the machine and press play.
So... For 1K Euro, my best option seems to be the 'Project RC' and for a bit more, the 'Cyrus CDT'. I will run this through a Musical fidelity V90 Dac, an Electrocomaniet PI-2, and Standmounted Elac BS244s. The idea is to also upgrade the DAC at some point, and the Project do a nice little combo with the twinned Project Dac (my dealer recommended this). So... it is worth forking out the little extra for the Cyrus? The European price of the Cyrus is around 1120, or thereabouts.
So... question is, what would you recommend for around Euro 1K CD transport? I am open to ideas.
Thanks so much in advance for all and any help. Excuse me if this has been covered in the forum before.
Pyramus.