DTTOM37
Active Member
As the title says, I am looking at Rotel RCD-12 for a good price at the hi-fi repair shop I trust.
Somehow I am considering trying again some of my recently bought CDs (Discogs pre-loudness war mainly), just because my 15 year old cheapo DVD player (Pioneer, about 79 Euros back then), sounded to my ears better over SPDIF/COAX than UPNP/DLNA streaming of the ripped version and on par with a local usb source. I had abandoned CD playing as a source in the music chain some 15 years ago and ripped actually all of my cd's.
However, this experience created the idea that looking for a transport could be an option again, and I looked at SONY CD/SACD/BD players around 250 Euros at Amazon, however I doubt that their anti-resonance strategy for this entry level products will produce any excitement. Then I saw the Rotel today, which looks solid built with a slot-in mechanism and some scratches on the top (whhich I don't mind at all for a worek horse) and was wondering who can tell me about the experience of this device as a transport only.?
Thanks in advance, Tom
Somehow I am considering trying again some of my recently bought CDs (Discogs pre-loudness war mainly), just because my 15 year old cheapo DVD player (Pioneer, about 79 Euros back then), sounded to my ears better over SPDIF/COAX than UPNP/DLNA streaming of the ripped version and on par with a local usb source. I had abandoned CD playing as a source in the music chain some 15 years ago and ripped actually all of my cd's.
However, this experience created the idea that looking for a transport could be an option again, and I looked at SONY CD/SACD/BD players around 250 Euros at Amazon, however I doubt that their anti-resonance strategy for this entry level products will produce any excitement. Then I saw the Rotel today, which looks solid built with a slot-in mechanism and some scratches on the top (whhich I don't mind at all for a worek horse) and was wondering who can tell me about the experience of this device as a transport only.?
Thanks in advance, Tom