poll: head to head , Luxman or Naim CD555 with 555 power supply? What would you choose?
The Luxman. The CD555 doesn’t play SACDs and the Lux looks better too.
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It’s a beast of a machine.
DG…
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Plus it’s a standalone DAC in its own right. I almost never use my Luxman CD player for playing CDs. It’s 99% used as the DAC on my streaming transport.
If you are going to combine a DAC with a CD transport or a streaming transport, it makes more sense to do it on the CD side. After all, the tech is never going to change.
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Do any of the d10x owners notice a difference in output level between the balanced and rca outputs? Because apart from the impedance, (600 vs 300) they should both put out 2.4v. excluding sacd/dsd.
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Hi Chucky, thanks for the reply. With mine, the output from the rca seems louder than from the xlr! Which is not what you would usually expect.
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No, i’m going luxman to linn klimax kontrol xlr & rca ( but currently running 32.5/hc). Do you mind me asking what replaced the d10x?
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Nice; i’m a bit tempted by an ex demo dsm gen 3, which means i could ditch the KK as well. I use a tt and this would have to be digitised, I might have a demo though to see how it sounds.
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…the latest SDSM does the digitising for you.
To put this in some sort of perspective: gaining SO for my TT far outweighed the loss of my Aura+KK. It seems that I only knew the effect my room was having when the effect was removed.
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Hi, thanks for the reply. Overall i don’t think i’m to hung up on “digitising” my t/t, i’ll have to do the maths and see if it’s feasible🤔
…I guess that one issue would be getting an ADC up to the task.
(Apologies to the OP for sidetracking)
Sorry, I’m all balanced only so wouldn’t be able to help here.
I’m usually balanced also; it’s just i was trying out an rca cable (same brand as xlr but lower range) and i noticed that the rca seems to be louder.
Studio grade ADC aren’t expensive. It’s reconstruction DAC that costs a bomb.