What DAC just for CD

[PETERPAN]

yep. My advice is to try to revive the cd player. I've got the impression that you prefer the tube sound of this player over something more neutral. Nothing wrong with that, it's perfectly fine. I just think that in this case it will be almost impossible to find a DAC with a similar sound characteristics, so you better try to keep the player alive as long as possible.

You are very right, having lived with and enjoyed the sound for soo long.

 

[Doodski]

But it tends to skip towards the end of playing CDs.

That's often caused by a worn spindle motor (The one that turns the CD.) or out of calibration servos. Do a clean and lube like the peeps here said and check for dust and debris in the sled rack gear drive assembly (If it's not a linear motor.) For the servo calibration and RF eye pattern calibration you need a decent oscilloscope. 100MHz would suffice quite well. Check online for a service manual. The calibration procedure will be outlined there.

 

[PETERPAN]

That's often caused by a worn spindle motor (The one that turns the CD.) or out of calibration servos. Do a clean and lube like the peeps here said and check for dust and debris in the sled rack gear drive assembly (If it's not a linear motor.) For the servo calibration and RF eye pattern calibration you need a decent oscilloscope. 100MHz would suffice quite well. Check online for a service manual. The calibration procedure will be outlined there.

That's often caused by a worn spindle motor (The one that turns the CD.) or out of calibration servos. Do a clean and lube like the peeps here said and check for dust and debris in the sled rack gear drive assembly (If it's not a linear motor.) For the servo calibration and RF eye pattern calibration you need a decent oscilloscope. 100MHz would suffice quite well. Check online for a service manual. The calibration procedure will be outlined there.

Thanks, will have to make a note for the repair man.

 

[Mnyb]

The case might be that this particular player has a very special “ house sound “ you have become accustomed to and like. The Vincent DAC might be bad too ?

It’s also the case that most DAC’s are transparent to a human listener even if they measure different at some technical level they are actually both better than CD almost any of them so decoding a CD 16bit is no problem for a 24bit DAC who in practice conks out at 20-21 bits or so ( because physics) and also better than us listeners too . So it becomes a matter of features functions and quality and look and feel .

You can .

Reapair your CD .

Try DACs at home can you borrow .?

Use psychoacoustic to your advantage, hifi sellers and thier ilk use to talk about “equipment burn in” it’s actually the listener that gets “burned in” ie getting used to the new thing .
So you can listen trough the Vincent DAC for a while a week or soo and the switch back to tubes CD and see what you think then ?

 

[PETERPAN]

The case might be that this particular player has a very special “ house sound “ you have become accustomed to and like. The Vincent DAC might be bad too ?

It’s also the case that most DAC’s are transparent to a human listener even if they measure different at some technical level they are actually both better than CD almost any of them so decoding a CD 16bit is no problem for a 24bit DAC who in practice conks out at 20-21 bits or so ( because physics) and also better than us listeners too . So it becomes a matter of features functions and quality and look and feel .

You can .

Reapair your CD .

Try DACs at home can you borrow .?

Use psychoacoustic to your advantage, hifi sellers and thier ilk use to talk about “equipment burn in” it’s actually the listener that gets “burned in” ie getting used to the new thing .
So you can listen trough the Vincent DAC for a while a week or soo and the switch back to tubes CD and see what you think then ?

Thank you sir, you have educated me.

 

[Angsty]

The case might be that this particular player has a very special “ house sound “ you have become accustomed to and like. The Vincent DAC might be bad too ?

It’s also the case that most DAC’s are transparent to a human listener even if they measure different at some technical level they are actually both better than CD almost any of them so decoding a CD 16bit is no problem for a 24bit DAC who in practice conks out at 20-21 bits or so ( because physics) and also better than us listeners too . So it becomes a matter of features functions and quality and look and feel .

You can .

Reapair your CD .

Try DACs at home can you borrow .?

Use psychoacoustic to your advantage, hifi sellers and thier ilk use to talk about “equipment burn in” it’s actually the listener that gets “burned in” ie getting used to the new thing .
So you can listen trough the Vincent DAC for a while a week or soo and the switch back to tubes CD and see what you think then ?

Referencing back to the original question, is there ever a technical reason to invest in a DAC with greater than “16 bit” performance parameters when it is only going to be used with Red Book CDs?

 

[M00ndancer]

Referencing back to the original question, is there ever a technical reason to invest in a DAC with greater than “16 bit” performance parameters when it is only going to be used with Red Book CDs?

No, only features.

 

[Balle Clorin]

Well, higher number of bits may allow a better digital volume control, and higher sampling will move filter artifacts and noise further away from the audio frequency. You may not hear it, but it is easily measurable