amazingtrade
Mad Madchestoh fan
My Rotel 870BX premap eats the pants of the Phono premap in my 6010OSE and my Cambridge Audio DAC1 sounds better than the DAC in my Marnatz CD6000OSE LE.
The CD players DAC is slightly smoother and has a little more 'audiophile' hint about it but the detail is very lacking, the cambridge DAC is much more detailed and a lot more energetic but only a tad brighter.
Also the built quality of both the Rotel (from around 1988 at a rough guess) and the DAC1 (1995) are both built as well as any modern products.
I guess modern stuff is much cheaper though than it used to be.
The CD players DAC is slightly smoother and has a little more 'audiophile' hint about it but the detail is very lacking, the cambridge DAC is much more detailed and a lot more energetic but only a tad brighter.
Also the built quality of both the Rotel (from around 1988 at a rough guess) and the DAC1 (1995) are both built as well as any modern products.
I guess modern stuff is much cheaper though than it used to be.