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Re: Interesting reading on CD players

Ignace — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:31:31 GMT

My father gave me a Luxman D-103u tube cd-player (and tube-amp)
Is it any good ?

Re: Interesting reading on CD players

tournedos — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:05:54 GMT

So that's where I found it! Am I getting old or what?

Re: Interesting reading on CD players

Puncher — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:03:48 GMT

It is the same site that Peter links to in the CD7000 thread

Interesting reading on CD players

tournedos — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:45:08 GMT

I stumbled on a site by apparently a Polish guy, who is obsessed with making CD players all tube (or valve, for you people on the isles) apart from the DAC, of course. I'm not sure if I agree with all his points, but it sure makes for some interesting reading:

http://www.lampizator.eu/

For the residents of this forum, the ranking page http://www.lampizator.eu/LAMPIZATOR/CD_player_ranking.html might be the most interesting, particularly the story on CD5500 in the end. It never occured to me that this series is one of the very few CD players made that have no pesky integrated amplifiers on the signal path.

He also seems to be a strong advocate of the TDA1541A