Quote Originally Posted by rusty jefferson View Post
Thanks Jerry. Sorry if I didn't make myself clear though. I wasn't suggesting a mid priced cd player for the dac. I was trying to keep the cost between $1000-1500. If he buys a converter/power supply for usb to s/pdif and has limited resources for the dac, an older 16/44 or 24/96 dac/cd player could be a good choice. My cd player/dac retailed for over $6k 5-6 years ago, but I bought it for about $1000 because it only plays native files to 24/96, and the guy who sold it was upgrading to 32 bit. Folks are selling off good quality (top of the line) 16/44 and 24/96 dacs pretty cheaply that sound great if your native files are 16/44 or 24/96, and you supply it a good s/pdif signal. I generally don't like upsampling and again, there's so little music of interest (to me) available above 24/96.
In general I'd avoid a player, but I think you are spot on about the deeply discounted recent high end players.


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