I'm sure this has been asked before, but I've been looking and haven't been able to find anything.
I have a Sony XA7ES, and an Arcam FMJ CD23. I believe both have very good DAC's in them. In fact, in Stereophile's review of the CD23, they mentioned the DAC was so good, they wonder why Arcam never put a digital in to use it as a DAC - This is exactly what I'm wanting to know.
The reason I ask is because I have a multi disc change, plus all of my music which I listen to is actually stored on my PC. Currently I'm using the DAC in my AV Processor to do the job. It is a good processor, but I am led to beleive that the DAC in the cd players are much better.
Is it possible to modify either of the CD Players to accept a raw PCM bitstream so I can use them simply as DAC's so I can listen to all the music I want all day without changing discs?
In the past I have thought that CD players and DAC didn't make too much difference to the sound, but after some research, I am led to believe that the DAC does have quite an effect, which is why I am wanting to use a good DAC without spending the money.
Thanks in advanced.
Puunda
I have a Sony XA7ES, and an Arcam FMJ CD23. I believe both have very good DAC's in them. In fact, in Stereophile's review of the CD23, they mentioned the DAC was so good, they wonder why Arcam never put a digital in to use it as a DAC - This is exactly what I'm wanting to know.
The reason I ask is because I have a multi disc change, plus all of my music which I listen to is actually stored on my PC. Currently I'm using the DAC in my AV Processor to do the job. It is a good processor, but I am led to beleive that the DAC in the cd players are much better.
Is it possible to modify either of the CD Players to accept a raw PCM bitstream so I can use them simply as DAC's so I can listen to all the music I want all day without changing discs?
In the past I have thought that CD players and DAC didn't make too much difference to the sound, but after some research, I am led to believe that the DAC does have quite an effect, which is why I am wanting to use a good DAC without spending the money.
Thanks in advanced.
Puunda
It is possible in both players. The Teac VRDS players have such an option. A schematic or service manual would help when determining the required circuitry.
I have the service manual for the Sony XA7ES, but have only enough knowleage to actually do the mod, but able to figure out what to do.
In the FMJ CD23 what chip precedes the PMD100, i.e. the equivalent of the CXD25xx chip in the XA7ES?
Bumping ancient Thread but really interested in Using my ARCAM CD 23 as a DAC ;so any mods on Arcam cd23 Ring DAC ???
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Why not rig up an LED with the digital stream modulating it's output and shine it on the pick-up sensor in the CD driver. You are then feeding the digital data optically into your player. I think it would probably be a nightmare but I love the novelty of it 😀
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