Play qobuz1/6/2024 In a system with an abundance of that, the Cyrus Audio CDi-XR might be exactly what you need. All of that impressive performance comes at the cost of color and texture. The CDi-XR is about speed, clarity, detail, and sharply drawn lines music is carved rather firmly in the space in-between your loudspeakers. The Cyrus Audio CDi-XR that was recently shipped back delivered music in a very different way than its Japanese rival. Coltrane, Byrd, and Lou Donaldson were propelled forward in front of my Q Acoustics 3050i loudspeakers the soundstage on each recording felt wider and there was an obvious shift in color. Horns had texture, color, and a degree of presence in the room that made focusing on anything but the music rather difficult. The Marantz CD60 has a rather warm and organic tonal balance and it is one of those components that makes even the worst recordings sound almost listenable it does some truly wonderful things with DCC, MoFi, and JVC XRCD recordings that pushed the envelope when it came to digital recordings in the 1990s. Marantz should incorporate that into the next design. The Optical/Coaxial digital outputs (no USB) made it easy to try all 3 and it was interesting to see how that changed the overall sound quality.Ī number of readers pointed out that I had not mentioned that the buttons on the front panel of the CD60 are not backlit and rather hard to see if there is not a lot of light in the room. A part of me wanted to ask for permission to keep them, but it felt like I was stealing someone’s memories by doing so.īefore I left for my homeland, I did run the CD60 through the Cambridge Audio Edge A, Cambridge Audio DacMagic 200M, and Holo Audio Spring 3 KTE DAC just to see if the performance could be elevated when used as a transport. We looked for a turntable, but it would appear that it had died many years before and the owner had not yet disposed of the records. A diatribe about glorifying someone who didn’t deserve any thought whatsoever and a quick history lesson about where I come from and how I needed to move on and stick with my own ensued.Īpparently, someone missed his ability to stream YouTube videos on his iPhone far more than I did. When I mentioned the story to my father, he became agitated and distant. The 45s triggered a memory of my grandfather taking us to Kmart as little kids and stealing candy from the bins the poor kid making $2/hour who challenged him at the time wet himself at the sight of a pistol in his waistband. There was an assortment of 1970s rock in the second box, but they all looked a tad worn and were the types of music one found at Kmart, or in the bin next to Kresge’s lunch counter. The first box was an assortment of Sinatra, Elvis, Bobby Darin, Vivaldi, Johnny Mathis, Joey Dee & the Starlighters, The Belvederes, and Conway Twitty the sleeves were all in relatively good shape and I’m sure the owners enjoyed these for many years.
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