Brennan b2

Hi
I use an Audiolab 6000A amplifier and Revel Cocerta F35 speakers. My audio source for CDs is a Brennan b2 which I have downloaded 20000 CDs on to. Can anyone tell me how much to spend and on which cd players to produce noticeable improvement in the sound quality?

 

If you've ripped the CDs to FLAC, you're already playing your CDs with no degradation. Consequently, there will be no improvement possible by playing the CDs directly in a CD player. The digital output from the Brennan will be identical to that from any CD player.

S.

 

Thanks. Yes I rip them to FLAC which is lossless apparently but does that mean in can’t be improved upon with a superior CD player?

 

Correct. CD playback is already completely transparent, i.e. perfect. Consequently, it can't be improved on audibly. Especially in your case where you're sending a digital signal from the Brennan to the Audiolab. Conversion to analogue is done in the amplifier, so ALL CD players (unless faulty) would output exactly the same bits as your Brennan, so the sound would be identical.

It should also be noted that the conversion from digital to analogue is also audibly perfect, and has been for very many years, unless deliberately engineered to sound different, i.e. wrong!

Magazines and manufacturers have to keep maintaining the myth of continuous improvements, but the engineering and technical truth is that CD playback has been a solved problem pretty much since the mid 1980s.

S.

 

Thanks very much, you learn something every day. I’m happy with the sound, was just wondering if I could improve it. Cheers for taking time to educate me!