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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2019 22:37:52 GMT
Hi all,
I'm currently awaiting our very own Mr Kipling to finish his work on Macca's SL1000cdp, which will then hopefully be posted to me for a home demo before I decide to buy it or not.
Just wondered if any of you fine folk have any experience of one.
I did hear Macca's at the Penkridge bakeoff and was impressed enough to continue my interest.
There's a decent looking Cyrus CDP in the classifieds at AoS. What's the concencious? Cyrus or Techy?
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Post by savvypaul on Jan 1, 2019 23:20:34 GMT
Hi all, I'm currently awaiting our very own Mr Kipling to finish his work on Macca's SL1000cdp, which will then hopefully be posted to me for a home demo before I decide to buy it or not. Just wondered if any of you fine folk have any experience of one. I did hear Macca's at the Penkridge bakeoff and was impressed enough to continue my interest. There's a decent looking Cyrus CDP in the classifieds at AoS. What's the concencious? Cyrus or Techy? I could be wrong but the Cyrus players ring a bell for transport failures. Worth checking availability of spares. Have you thought about streaming? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2019 23:27:06 GMT
I haven't thought about streaming.
A simple RPI rig seemed a bit too complicated to setup. What do you use?
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Post by savvypaul on Jan 1, 2019 23:30:12 GMT
I haven't thought about streaming. A simple RPI rig seemed a bit too complicated to setup. What do you use? A Vortexbox appliance as storage / server and a Sonore MicroRendu. Metrum dac. Control it all with phone app. You'd be up and running from scratch in 20 mins max. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2019 23:39:47 GMT
I've heard of nine if that 😂
Ok, I'll have a look into it. Ideally, tracks would be on a HDD rather than over the internet as I haven't got my router anywhere near the HiFi.
You've piqued my interest, thank Paul.
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Post by savvypaul on Jan 1, 2019 23:45:34 GMT
I've heard of nine if that 😂 Ok, I'll have a look into it. Ideally, tracks would be on a HDD rather than over the internet as I haven't got my router anywhere near the HiFi. You've piqued my interest, thank Paul. Yep. My Vortexbox has a 2tb hard drive. Also has a built in CD ripper. You can also stream Spotify, Qobuz, Tidal etc over the internet. I run a 8 metre ethernet cable - hidden behind the skirting board - from my router to the Rendu. TTFN |
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Post by antonio on Jan 2, 2019 6:32:49 GMT
I've also read about Cyrus having reliability problems, although do you believe everything you read on the internet. More importantly I've never heard any Cyrus kit that I have liked. Do you have a dac Oli? If not good ones can be purchased cheaply so savvypaul's suggestion of streaming, could be a good one, and can be upgraded over time.
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Post by Bigman80 on Jan 2, 2019 6:39:41 GMT
I have little experience of Cyrus CD players but a mate who ususllay likes similar things really loves the CD8s (hope that’s right). His transport has just gone down though.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2019 11:15:41 GMT
Well that's sold that for the Cyrus. Don't like buying twice.
No DAC.
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Post by macca on Jan 2, 2019 19:42:46 GMT
Hi all, I'm currently awaiting our very own Mr Kipling to finish his work on Macca's SL1000cdp, which will then hopefully be posted to me for a home demo before I decide to buy it or not. Just wondered if any of you fine folk have any experience of one. I did hear Macca's at the Penkridge bakeoff and was impressed enough to continue my interest. There's a decent looking Cyrus CDP in the classifieds at AoS. What's the concencious? Cyrus or Techy? Told you man that Technics will wallop anything in existence except maybe the Sony R series. Cyrus my ass. How you getting on with that Sony 791E? |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2019 20:07:23 GMT
Hi all, I'm currently awaiting our very own Mr Kipling to finish his work on Macca's SL1000cdp, which will then hopefully be posted to me for a home demo before I decide to buy it or not. Just wondered if any of you fine folk have any experience of one. I did hear Macca's at the Penkridge bakeoff and was impressed enough to continue my interest. There's a decent looking Cyrus CDP in the classifieds at AoS. What's the concencious? Cyrus or Techy? Told you man that Technics will wallop anything in existence except maybe the Sony R series. Cyrus my ass. How you getting on with that Sony 791E? Its performance is better than expected. Just seems to be getting better. I added some isolation gel feet under it. The bass took on a better dimension. I have a shed load of Raspberry Pi on the way to me to try. I want to see how the techy compares to modern streaming options. I just need the bloody techie! |
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Post by macca on Jan 2, 2019 20:19:44 GMT
Told you man that Technics will wallop anything in existence except maybe the Sony R series. Cyrus my ass. How you getting on with that Sony 791E? Its performance is better than expected. Just seems to be getting better. I added some isolation gel feet under it. The bass took on a better dimension. I have a shed load of Raspberry Pi on the way to me to try. I want to see how the techy compares to modern streaming options. I just need the bloody techie! It's a good player that, I used it for ten years, preferred it to the top of the line Cambridge Audio 840C which I also had. Used to keep a ten kilo weight on top of it, swore it made a difference (it didn't really). The SLP1200 (particularly the one you are getting) is in a different league though. You'll easily hear it. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2019 20:25:16 GMT
Its performance is better than expected. Just seems to be getting better. I added some isolation gel feet under it. The bass took on a better dimension. I have a shed load of Raspberry Pi on the way to me to try. I want to see how the techy compares to modern streaming options. I just need the bloody techie! It's a good player that, I used it for ten years, preferred it to the top of the line Cambridge Audio 840C which I also had. Used to keep a ten kilo weight on top of it, swore it made a difference (it didn't really). The SLP1200 (particularly the one you are getting) is in a different league though. You'll easily hear it. I hope to. Has Mr Kipling returned to the forum? |
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Post by Bigman80 on Jan 9, 2019 0:44:56 GMT
Has Mr Kipling got any closer to sorting the Trchnics? No more ince pies to bake now that Xmas is over, so he’s got no excuses!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2019 6:14:40 GMT
Has Mr Kipling got any closer to sorting the Trchnics? No more ince pies to bake now that Xmas is over, so he’s got no excuses! The news is, he is looking at improving the DAC power supply in it. The RCA sockets have arrived but aren't fitted yet. Most things going to a halt over the Christmas period as being a master purveyor of fine pies, he must have e been very busy. Hopefully soon, I will have it here for a listen. |
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