Originally Posted By MatManBobbleHead
Sounds to me like a pretty awful DAC inside your CD player.


Hmm, good point. The whole player (200 disk carousel) was ~$200 CDN eek

All of the components in the chain seemed to make a slight improvement but the one step I haven't isolated yet is going from internal DAC to S/PDIF + external DAC (in the TubeDAC).

Before this I had no idea what to expect from changing DACs and associated circuitry.

Last edited by bridgman; 08/11/17 01:57 PM.
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