Scored a Denon DCD-1500 straight out of 1986. From what I could find these originally sold for about $700 in '86 money. Sounds warm, fantastic. Now to go dig the rest of my CD’s out of the basement.
Scored a Denon DCD-1500 straight out of 1986. From what I could find these originally sold for about $700 in '86 money. Sounds warm, fantastic. Now to go dig the rest of my CD’s out of the basement.
Toslink was a rarity back then. Related, I have a CD changer from 2001 I think. I connected it to my modern DAC and it sounded worse than the analog output. I still don’t know why to this day. Shouldn’t it always be better?
Nah not always ! Look at the ps1 DAC. Highly regarded as sounding great on CDs despite being “old”.
I just wouldn’t expect my Denon HDCD CD changer to sound better than my Topping E50. I’m thinking it’s the coax output that’s the problem.