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Someone, somewhere, will buy this CD player for 16382 euro

oivavoi

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Just need to blow off some steam. I just saw an ad at our local Norwegian hifi forum for this CD player:
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It's a bargain price, actually! Only 16382 in euros. They usually sell it for even more.
http://www.dagogo.com/esoteric-k-01x-super-audio-cdcd-player-review

I don't know what to say. 16382 euros for a CD PLAYER!!??
Can somebody be so utterly mad as to pay that amount of money for what is nothing but a CD transport + DAC?
But I guess that, yeah. Someone, somewhere, is going to buy the player for close to that price.

Just needed to get it out of my system.
 

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If anyone is going to to buy those, it's going to be us Norwegians. We have waaay too much money.
 

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I finally decided to replace "Skippy" (1997) with a new device.

I picked a Tascam CD-200 base model, for about $200, and use the digital outputs.

Does anyone make a little box into which to insert a standard optical drive of your choice and output music digits? That's what I went looking for and didn't find.
 
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I finally decided to replace "Skippy" (1997) with a new device.

I picked a Tascam CD-200 base model, for about $200, and use the digital outputs.

Does anyone make a little box into which to insert a standard optical drive of your choice and output music digits? That's what I went looking for and didn't find.

My thinking exactly.
 

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You guys are all full of it. My CD player is belt driven as should any good player be.
 

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After I opened up my first CD player

and stuck my finger on the spinning disk to see if the music slowed down

and it didn't

I decided not to worry too much about disk drives.
 
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After I opened up my first CD player

and stuck my finger on the spinning disk to see if the music slowed down

and it didn't

I decided not to worry too much about disk drives.

Such sublime words.
 

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Does anyone make a little box into which to insert a standard optical drive of your choice and output music digits? That's what I went looking for and didn't find.

The only vendor I can readily think of is Redgum Audio, Australia. Too bad the prices aren't commensurate with the low cost of modular CD-ROM drive units. You would think that such a solution would be low cost and commonplace.

http://www.redgumaudio.com/products/amplifolia-range/rgcd2/

http://www.redgumaudio.com/products/amplifolia-range/rgcd5enr/

http://www.redgumaudio.com/products/amplifolia-range/mitsubishi-dd16c520-cdrom-drive/
 
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Maybe if seen on a dollars per pound basis, it's not that bad a price. Why on earth that much weight?
 
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