Need a tube CD/SACD/DVD player!

Need a really good tube CD/SACD/DVD player to replace my current Sony piece
of junk. I would also consider separate transport and tube processor.

My system is:

Brentworth Sound Lab Type IV speakers

Art Audio Diavolo amp

CAT SL-1 Ultimate preamp

RPM-2 turntable and arm with Lyra Helikon cartridge

McIntosh MR71 and MR66 tuners

Tandberg TD20A SE tape deck



What are the ones worth checking out?



Öökintölli

ToobZ!

Öökintölli wrote:

Need a really good tube CD/SACD/DVD player to replace my current Sony piece
of junk. I would also consider separate transport and tube processor.

My system is:

Brentworth Sound Lab Type IV speakers

Art Audio Diavolo amp

CAT SL-1 Ultimate preamp

RPM-2 turntable and arm with Lyra Helikon cartridge

McIntosh MR71 and MR66 tuners

Tandberg TD20A SE tape deck



What are the ones worth checking out?




If you are at all handy inside audio equipment, you may try modifying your
"piece of junk Sony". Take a look at my page:
http://home.netcom.com/~wa2ise/radios/tubedac.htm

Something else to try is to load the audio op-amp outputs with a resistor
to either a positive or a negative supply, say 12 to 24V DC.
Whatever a well filtered supply of these voltage levels is
present inside the player will do.
Select the resistor so you are drawing a few ma from the op-amp
at all times thruout the entire audio waveform. This makes the
op-amp behave as if it were single ended, thus avoiding class B
crossover distortion products (which the op-amp's feedback
loop tries to correct for, but some still gets thru). Some op-amps
benefit greatly, some this doesn't help. But this is an easy mod
to try.

Öökintölli wrote:

Need a really good tube CD/SACD/DVD player to replace my current Sony piece
of junk. I would also consider separate transport and tube processor.

My system is:

Brentworth Sound Lab Type IV speakers

Art Audio Diavolo amp

CAT SL-1 Ultimate preamp

RPM-2 turntable and arm with Lyra Helikon cartridge

McIntosh MR71 and MR66 tuners

Tandberg TD20A SE tape deck



What are the ones worth checking out?



Öökintölli

ToobZ!



You could try http://www.scott-nixon.com/dac.htm, I know of someone
building one, but as yet no reports.

--
Nick

"Öökintölli" wrote in message


Need a really good tube CD/SACD/DVD player to replace my current Sony
piece of junk. I would also consider separate transport and tube
processor.

There is no such thing as a tube optical disc player. There never will be
such a thing. Were such a thing to be built, it would be the size of a house
or larger. What you may find some day is a solid state optical disc player
with a few thermionic noise and distortion enhancers slapped on, right
before the output terminals. Why would someone who is interested in pure
natural sound want such a thing?

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 06:09:00 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

"Öökintölli" wrote in message
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Need a really good tube CD/SACD/DVD player to replace my current Sony
piece of junk. I would also consider separate transport and tube
processor.

There is no such thing as a tube optical disc player. There never will be
such a thing. Were such a thing to be built, it would be the size of a house
or larger. What you may find some day is a solid state optical disc player
with a few thermionic noise and distortion enhancers slapped on, right
before the output terminals. Why would someone who is interested in pure
natural sound want such a thing?

Just to **** you off?

"dave weil" wrote in message
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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 06:09:00 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

"Öökintölli" wrote in message


Need a really good tube CD/SACD/DVD player to replace my current
Sony piece of junk. I would also consider separate transport and
tube processor.

There is no such thing as a tube optical disc player. There never
will be such a thing. Were such a thing to be built, it would be the
size of a house or larger. What you may find some day is a solid
state optical disc player with a few thermionic noise and distortion
enhancers slapped on, right before the output terminals. Why would
someone who is interested in pure natural sound want such a thing?

Just to **** you off?

If you're observing that the original post was probably just a troll...

;-)

"Andrew Walls" wrote in message


"Öökintölli" skrev i melding
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Need a really good tube CD/SACD/DVD player to replace my current
Sony piece of junk. I would also consider separate transport and
tube processor.

Shanling has a SACD/CD player with a valve preout. See here for a
test of it: http://www.audaud.com/audaud/APR03/E...uip1APR03.html

Except of course this isn't a test because it does not involve comparison of
this product with any kind of ideal standard.

It's really just another "I'm so thrilled to be able to listen to something
this new and cool" anecdote. However it might be relevant to people who are
into this sort of thing.

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:25:28 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

"dave weil" wrote in message
news
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 06:09:00 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

"Öökintölli" wrote in message


Need a really good tube CD/SACD/DVD player to replace my current
Sony piece of junk. I would also consider separate transport and
tube processor.

There is no such thing as a tube optical disc player. There never
will be such a thing. Were such a thing to be built, it would be the
size of a house or larger. What you may find some day is a solid
state optical disc player with a few thermionic noise and distortion
enhancers slapped on, right before the output terminals. Why would
someone who is interested in pure natural sound want such a thing?

Just to **** you off?

If you're observing that the original post was probably just a troll...

;-)

Or maybe they knew that you'd post a typically biased and useless
answer...

;-) (just for you, Arnold)

Again that E88CC ........ :-(

"Nick Gorham" schreef in bericht
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Öökintölli wrote:

Need a really good tube CD/SACD/DVD player to replace my current Sony
piece
of junk. I would also consider separate transport and tube processor.

My system is:

Brentworth Sound Lab Type IV speakers

Art Audio Diavolo amp

CAT SL-1 Ultimate preamp

RPM-2 turntable and arm with Lyra Helikon cartridge

McIntosh MR71 and MR66 tuners

Tandberg TD20A SE tape deck



What are the ones worth checking out?



Öökintölli

ToobZ!



You could try http://www.scott-nixon.com/dac.htm, I know of someone
building one, but as yet no reports.

--
Nick

"Nick Gorham" wrote in message


You could try http://www.scott-nixon.com/dac.htm, I know of someone
building one, but as yet no reports.

I'm *surprised* that none of our local HTML gurus have pointed out the
incompetent design of this web site. It's pretty obvious if you click any of
the links on the home page.

Actually, I'm not surprised at all, because these losers only go into HTML
critic mode if they disagree with the author or subject matter on the site.