Ron's Speaker, Turntable, Power and Room Treatment Upgrades

[dan31]

When you finish with that Pioneer player send it to me. I need the transport as a back up for my Ayre disc spinner.

Thanks

 

[Ron Resnick]

The answer to your question is yes.
I assume you would be streaming from the streamer you just ordered. That shows the pitfall of making an assumption. I further assume you have three options.
1. The Pioneer Elite as a standalone unit.
2. The Pioneer/Baltic combo
3.Innous Pulse mini/Baltic
A further assumption. It will be 1& 2 vs 3.
I predict 3 will be the winner.
I have previously stated the Pioneer Elite may be limited by the quality of available software. Another assumption.
BTW for $99 I want that cd player.

I have a feeling that Pioneer as transport —> Baltic 3 is going to sound wonderful on an absolute basis, and be amazingly good sound value for money.

 

[Ron Resnick]

When you finish with that Pioneer player send it to me. I need the transport as a back up for my Ayre disc spinner.

Thanks

At $170 for NOS brand-new-in-the-box I am keeping him!

 

[Gregadd]

I have a feeling that Pioneer as transport —> Baltic 3 is going to sound wonderful on an absolute basis, and be amazingly good sound value for money.

i hope you are right. Sounds as though you have an impressive cd collection.

 

[Ron Resnick]

Ron, I took your post to be in that it sounded better, not that it was easier. Some of my Boston area friends prefer the sound of physical CDs to streaming in their systems. At least they did a couple years ago when I last talked to them about it. You can discuss with Ack and Al M.

Hmmm. I wrote “easier.” Right now CD is beating iPad streaming (which I would expect), but it is correct that iPad streaming is not proper streaming and it is not a proper or fair comparison to CD.

 

[Ron Resnick]

i hope you are right. Sounds as though you have an impressive cd collection.

I have about 20 CDs.

 

[dan31]

At $170 for NOS brand-new-in-the-box I am keeping him!

Ron, you don’t like digital. That Pioneer will only break in and sound better. I am saving you from liking it and having trouble.

 

[Ron Resnick]

Ron, you don’t like digital. That Pioneer will only break in and sound better. I am saving you from liking it and having trouble.

Thank you for trying to save me from myself!

 

[Folsom]

I agree so far that streaming sounds more homogenous. If I hear different I’ll say it.

 

[Ron Resnick]

When you finish with that Pioneer player send it to me. I need the transport as a back up for my Ayre disc spinner.

Thanks

Even if I just keep it on the shelf I think it’s nice to have a working CD player for playing test CDs and diagnostics.