bluecrab Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 I recently put my foot down and, totally ignoring any possible WAF, replaced my Marantz PM-68 Int. Amp. with a NAD C372. The NAD obstinately refused to be friendly with my Technics SH-GE70 EQ for a while, but finally agreed to shake hands and be pals. Minidisc now sounds better than ever. Truly near-CD. In fact, good MD is far better than some CDs. (Not news, I suppose.) The downside: Flaws are exposed. Older ATRAC versions are audibly inferior to newer ones. I'll have to re-record some MDs.Oh, and even LP2 (via Type S) sounded very good - if the source was good to begin with. This is great, I'm in love all over again! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Interesting. I have been wondering if it was my imagination - but it seems possible that the CD in the D400 beats my Sony CE375 5-disk changer for sound quality. Does that sound reasonable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecrab Posted March 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Interesting. I have been wondering if it was my imagination - but it seems possible that the CD in the D400 beats my Sony CE375 5-disk changer for sound quality. Does that sound reasonable?It does sound reasonable, although I do not have a CE375 to compare. I actually tried two CD sources. One was the MXD-D400 and the other was a a Sherwood CD-7080R, with its dual Burr-Brown DACs. That's no contest, the D400's CD player is all right, but out of its league vs. the Sherwood. However, IMO the D400's CD is better than some - my Aiwa XC-RW700, for example. It might be interesting to take a look at the specs for the CE375 and the D400 and see how they compare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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