| Rotel 1072 [message #14187] |
Wed, 09 February 2005 11:46  |
jim denton
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Bought the new Rotel CD player based mostly on TAS review---but have no idea of older units that may be better sound? Has anyone any experience with Arcam or Arye? looking (again!) for a 2-4 year old hi end CD player Jim
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| Re: Rotel 1072 [message #14191 is a reply to message #14190] |
Tue, 01 March 2005 09:56  |
DRC
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The Meridian would be a good upgrade, as would a used Audio Note CD21.x or 3.1x. Obviously I have a bias, so I won't offer a preference.
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| Arcam [message #14198 is a reply to message #14187] |
Wed, 09 March 2005 15:14 |
FredT
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I had an Arcam Alpha 7SE and I wasn't impressed at all with it. My older Marantz CD67Se sounded better and cost half as much. Another approach you might want to consider is using your Rotel as a transport and getting a DAC. The newer non-oversampling dacs are really good values. I really like the Scott Nixon tube dac which sells for aobut $250 in kit form, $450 assembled. I also heard a new $450 dac by Audio Mirror last week and liked it a lot. There's a link below. Vlad, the head guy at Audio Mirror, is a fellow member of the Houston Audio Society, and if the GPAF happens I'll try to get him to participate as an exhibitor.
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| On Second Thought [message #14199 is a reply to message #14198] |
Thu, 10 March 2005 14:29 |
FredT
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After I posted the above response I dug out some old Absolute Sound mags and and found a review of the Rotel 1072 player (Feb/Mar 2004). Whenever I hear the words Rotel and Adcom I think mid-fi; better than mass market but not "high end", whatever that is. However, in this case, according to the review, the 1072 is one of those overachiever CD players that sells for under 1K but provides 90% of the sound quality of the $3K players - not bad. Maybe you should just leave it as it is and enjoy it. Some believe that upgrades like power cords, cones, better interconnects etc can enhance a player's sound; I don't know. I'll bring my Scott Nixon DAC to the GPAF and let you try it for the weekend, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Rotel sounds just as good without it. The "claim to fame" of the SN Dac and the Audio Mirror DAC is that they don't use oversampling therefore they don't have a lowpass filter with its typical phase distortion. It's just your CD player's transport feeding the DAC through a digital cable, a buffer stage, then direct thru the interconnects to your preamp.
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