"Gaetan Mailloux" wrote in message
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"Arfa Daily" ) writes:
"Gaetan Mailloux" wrote in message
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John Tserkezis ) writes:
Gaetan Mailloux wrote:

Pro-level cd player are to costly, the mods are much cheaper or i may
use
the spdif out ans another Dac.

Ok, then wouldn't it make sense to use SPDIF? You at least get a
choice on
CD player, and in the event of failure, just replace the player.

You're stuck of course till the end of life of the SPDIF interface,
or
failure of equipment whichever comes first, but that's going to be some
time
into the future, so why worry?
By the time that happens, it will likely be near the end of life of
the
Redbook CD standard anyway, and you would be better inclined to move to
whatever the next whizz-bang standard is.

Unless I'm missing something?
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Hello

Yes, I did think of using SPDIF, I even think of using a good cd rom
drive since they have better mechanic.

Gaetan

That's highly debateable ...

Arfa




Hello

Why using a cdrom drive are debateable ?

Thank

Gaetan

I didn't say that there was any problem *using* one - only that it is
debateable as to whether there is any improvement in quality over a
'conventional' drive. I see many many CD and DVD players for repair, and a
good deal of these use pre-built OEM drives in them of exactly the type that
you would find in a computer ie with an IDE interface. They seem to suffer
deck related problems just as much as players fitted with 'conventional'
drives. I also don't think that they are particularly any more long-lived in
computers, than they are when used in HiFis.

If you wanted a player to modify whose laser and deck was going to last for
ever, then you could do a lot worse than one of the Pioneers from a few
years back. Although they used to suffer from a bad spindle motor after very
prolongued use, this item was quick, cheap and easy to replace. On the other
hand, I can't remember replacing more than one or two lasers in Pioneers
since they were first building CD players.

I would have thought that the way to go if you really wanted to experiment
with a better DAC, was via the SPDIF or co-ax outputs from a conventional
player. What comes out of there is data, is data, is data, basically just as
it rolls off the disc. I seem to recall that the magazine Elektor
Electronics have done a couple of external high quality DAC construction
projects in the last couple of years. Go have a look on their website, where
they have all of the articles archived and catalogued for search.

Arfa