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Someone figured it out.

Have a Project Debut Carbon Evo paired with a used Musical Fidelity V90 LPS phono stage. Biggest upgrade was getting a cheap stylus force gauge and upgrading the cartridge to an Audio-Technica VM540ML, which solved the inner groove distortion problem. Happy with the sound now for around 900 Euro.

Jessica Pratt - The Last Year from the album Here in the Pitch.

Bluesound NODE Nano €349 > €275 Free EU shipping https://iear.nl/merken/bluesound/

I've put mine on cork yoga blocks. Works fine.

They only had a few items on Amazon.nl in April last year. They listed the 8300CDQ for €890 while other shops asked 1200>1500 for it. But since they are on the Audiolab distributors list I took the plunge and it turned out okay.

Bought an Audiolab CD-player from them through Amazon last year. No issues.

Looks like the Shenzhenaudio discounts are also available on Amazon.

Could be those are pre-emphasized CDs and you're current setup doesn't deal with that, which causes them to sound very bright.

Maybe a (used) Cambridge Audio DacMagic 100 https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/cambridge-audio-dacmagic-100-review.12201/

Audiolab 8300CDQ (silver) CD Player / DAC / Preamplifier €867 (reg. €1499) https://www.amazon.nl/Audiolab-8300CDQ-Player-Pre-Silver/dp/B08D39GL1D/

Maybe you should give JRiver Media Center a try. I run it on a Pi 4 with Raspberry Pi OS to serve Apple Lossless to my Apple stuff, DLNA devices and a Pi running Moode, controlled with their JRemote app. It also has video capabilities but I never tried those.

A 4GB Pi 4 running JRiver Media Center on Raspberry Pi OS. Serves Apple Lossless to my Apple stuff, DLNA devices and a Pi running Moode.

So Long, Marianne - Bill Callahan

Core Audio is the audio layer of OS X so you can't bypass it. What you can bypass is the system mixer which down/upsamples everything to the samplerate set in audio/MIDI Config. Vox (like most players) has a setting for that called Exclusive Access. This allows the player to send audio in the...