RedDisk CD Playback Presentation better than streamed WAV file?

[T32803]

But I do recall how a few years back I went for a speaker demo and took some CDs which the dealer ripped in WAV and played back through a NDS and I was struck just how really lackluster it was in comparison with my CDS3 which is hardly an aggressive player.

The most organic, lifelike, and romantic sounding Digital Playback system I have ever heard was
the Naim CDS2 + XPS back in 1998. The cost for both plus upgraded Naim power cords was
tragically catastrophic though.

If your CDS3 has the same voice you are one lucky duck.

[cdboy]

If it helps I was an NDX and CDS3/XPSDR owner. I spent about a year trying to convince myself that the CD replay was the better as it cost way more. I found the NDX (bare) was just as good as the CD/XPSDR. I commited to ripping all my CDs (took over a year) and sold the CDS3. That made the XPSDR available for the NDX. Nice. The XPSDR now sits on a NDX2. Never looked back.

[LindsayM]

If it helps I was an NDX and CDS3/XPSDR owner. I spent about a year trying to convince myself that the CD replay was the better as it cost way more. I found the NDX (bare) was just as good as the CD/XPSDR. I commited to ripping all my CDs (took over a year) and sold the CDS3. That made the XPSDR available for the NDX. Nice. The XPSDR now sits on a NDX2. Never looked back

How many CDs was that?!

[cdboy]

2111 CDs according to Asset, about 60% classical.Still a few to do …

[Gazza]

Interesting comment Lindsay…as I am on my second ND555. For the first i was interested in its burn in and so forth. After 2 months it had a problem, the new player was great, but needed to burn in again. I just sat back and enjoyed the music, rather than listening to subtle changes. I couldn’t tell you about any changes at all with this player.