Yes, it does with my special recipe, the CDP -707ESD in combination with my custom built Sony DAS-R1 DAC:They are beautifully built inside. I bet it sounds really good!
Very cool and interesting piece of gear.How about this new TEAC Reference 7 series CD player/integrated amp (70 watts/channel ICE class D amps).....
I could say the same about my Nakamichi OMS-7. It was the finest CD player I had owned, but it was troublesome. I ended up selling it for $25, not working. Originally was a ~$1500 deck back in the mid 80s (bought it grey market, so I paid maybe half that). And to be honest, based on the topic at hand, it was likely the best looking with those angular controls on the front.
That describes almost every bit of Sony disc playing gear I have ever owned! Then again, none were the ES series like this one:
A local used record store had one of these for well over a decade, maybe even two decades. Nearly every time I went in there, they had it playing something. I don't know much else about it, but it was a real workhorse.
The turntable has never been dead. It is true that it went through a period where it wasn't getting much attention, but it was never dead. Reports of it's demise have been proven unfounded.
It's dead. Apparent revival is only a Lazarus reflex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_sign
Guess again. It will not rise to it's historical level of popularity again, no doubt, but it is picking up some momentum.
Likewise, there's a lingering nostalgic fondness for kerosene lanterns. Unlike kerosene lanterns -- which actually make a bit of sense if the power fails -- there is no compelling reason for turntables to exist. Digital media offers equal or better quality at lower cost, so the only reason to continue producing vinyl records and turntables is for the limited and dubious pleasure of watching plastic spin. Once the aging generation of vinyl-only proponents die off, and the hipsters shuffle on to some new passing fancy, and all vinyl records of historical interest have been digitally copied, there'll only be a handful of historians who will rightfully preserve them in museums and private collections for the interest and amusement of future generations, along with -- and just as popular as -- horseless carriages, flintlock pistols, and brass spitoons.
Couldn't agree more.
Other than many people currently want them for whatever reasons they may have, so the market exists. Regardless of your future prognostication of the turntables demise, it hasn't occurred yet.
i'm a big advocate for Digital. As you can see by my posting above, for Redbook Audio, nothing will surpass by Transport/DAC combo, especially with by Apogee Big Ben Master clock in between which remves all jitter! However, Your comment about vinyl is misguided, it is coming back even greater and for good reason; it sounds great and people love to hold something more tangible in their hands then a little plastic jewel case and CD. Hate to inform you, but you're going to get flamed on this one
No, not yet. Horse-drawn delivery vans carried on long after transportation had moved to cars and trucks. Oil and gas lighting remained in use long after electric lighting was popular. For both, I can well imagine there was nostalgic clinging to the past and youthful enthusiasm for the curious ways of an older generation, along with some practical justifications. However, given there is no compelling reason for vinyl records to continue, it's almost certain that like horse-drawn vans and gas lighting, vinyl records will eventually become nothing more than museum exhibits.
