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RE: Do multibit DACs deteriorate faster?- Puzzled!

In Reply to: Do multibit DACs deteriorate faster? posted by peterhh on October 1, 2010 at 14:15:00:

I am very puzzled by this thread and other threads like it. I currently own an Mission DAD-7000 (dressed up Phillips CD-104). I was very excited when I found it in the thrift store, with a remote for $15, including the remote. The door didn't work by that was fixed with an O-ring from the hardware store. When I firt listened to it it was smooth sounding and I thought, better than a lot of players of it's day. However, when I A/B'ed it with a modest Sony DCD-X222es, the Sony destroyed it in every way.

I also currently own the first generation Magnavox CD player and it just does not sound very good (but works fine).

I realize that aging capacitors could very well be an issue here. However, I sold audio in the 80's and had first hand experience with CD players from the mid to the late 80's. The sound got a lot better with each newer generation. I would invite people to bring in there older CD players to compare with newer ones. They always bought the new ones, even when they had insisted their old player would be better. We kept a trade-in Sony CDP-101 to demonstrate how far the technology had come. Someone eventually bought it but I am not sure why. IMO it was a very well built but nasty sounding player that did not sound as good as the entry level $300 Yamaha (which is what the original owner bought!),.

The ADS was the first CD player I heard that I actually wanted to own. There were quite a few good sounding (IMO) players by the late 80's, but I do not understand why these early 80's player get so much attention. Of course I have not heard everything out there.

Dave

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Topic - Do multibit DACs deteriorate faster? - peterhh 14:15:00 10/1/10 (11)

RE: Do multibit DACs deteriorate faster?- Puzzled! - Crazy Dave 10/6/1011:32:58 10/6/10 (0)

RE: Do multibit DACs deteriorate faster? - tube524 11:37:46 10/2/10 (1)

Thanks for info! - peterhh 12:32:29 10/2/10 (0)

RE: Do multibit DACs deteriorate faster? - Todd Krieger 17:55:25 10/1/10 (7)

this is what you want - Werner 23:31:26 10/4/10 (0)

Thanks! Actually mid-80s. My player was basis for Meridian - peterhh 12:27:31 10/2/10 (5)

RE: Thanks! Actually mid-80s. My player was basis for Meridian - Werner 06:43:41 10/3/10 (0)

RE: Thanks! Actually mid-80s. My player was basis for Meridian - Todd Krieger 14:07:27 10/2/10 (3)

Guess again - plantsman 04:16:46 10/8/10 (1)

RE: Guess again- ditto - Crazy Dave 11:27:02 10/13/10 (0)

RE: Thanks! Actually mid-80s. My player was basis for Meridian - zacster 02:59:11 10/4/10 (0)

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RE: Do multibit DACs deteriorate faster?- Puzzled! - Crazy Dave 10/6/1011:32:58 10/6/10 (0)

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