travellersol
Active Member
Hi all. I have a Marantz CD63SE player that I used to play CDs on it twenty years ago. After moving to a new city I left my system in their boxes for many years untouched, practically left the hobby. Just beginning last year I felt the itch to listen to my stuff again, and found the Marantz's mechanism stuck (well after all those years), for a temporary solution I just plug in my (then) newly-bought Fiio X3 digital player into my amp and play some flac and ape files, and, the result was good at least to my ears. I have bought Fiio X5iii after losing the X3 and have been using it ever since.
My question to all here is:
"Would digital sources like flac and DSD sound as good as on CDs, or better?"
I know some "audiophiles" scoff at the idea of using any source other than CDs and vinyls. But I wonder, if CDs and flac and DSD are all carrying nothing but streams of 1s and 0s, why would flacs and DSDs be inferior to CDs? In fact, CDs is not a purely digital medium as it needs a mechanical spinning device to read it, thereby bringing in jitter and other unwanted errors. To my limited knowledge, wouldn't DAPs playing lossless tracks be more accurate than playing CDs? Since I don't have a functional CD player to do an AB test with my DAP, I'd like to hear from people who have done it and illuminate me on this matter.
In the future, I plan to buy a good DAC and feed it with my PC or DAP playing high res material. Would this setup totally eliminate the role of CD players in the future?
My question to all here is:
"Would digital sources like flac and DSD sound as good as on CDs, or better?"
I know some "audiophiles" scoff at the idea of using any source other than CDs and vinyls. But I wonder, if CDs and flac and DSD are all carrying nothing but streams of 1s and 0s, why would flacs and DSDs be inferior to CDs? In fact, CDs is not a purely digital medium as it needs a mechanical spinning device to read it, thereby bringing in jitter and other unwanted errors. To my limited knowledge, wouldn't DAPs playing lossless tracks be more accurate than playing CDs? Since I don't have a functional CD player to do an AB test with my DAP, I'd like to hear from people who have done it and illuminate me on this matter.
In the future, I plan to buy a good DAC and feed it with my PC or DAP playing high res material. Would this setup totally eliminate the role of CD players in the future?