| Audio Research | Berkeley Audio Design | Boulder | Linn |
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| Nagra | Naim | Oppo | Quad |
| Simaudio Moon | Soulution | Spectral Audio | Theta |
Digital is now the preferred medium in most residential music systems. We have a good variety of high performance disc players—however the specs will not tell you how good they sound. If you want to hear how good digital can sound you're invited to bring in a few of your favorite recordings and listen for yourself, as hearing is believing!
Music Servers for CD quality & compressed files
| Kaleidescape | ReQuest |
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Music servers for the home have become very popular. Because many people have become accustomed to MP3 players and iPods, the idea of music files and playlists is now quite familiar. The way to reproduce significantly higher quality music than a portable player is to have one of these music servers installed in your home along with either uncompressed WAV files or lossless compressed files like FLAC, etc. (These music servers can also play lossy compressed MP3 files.) If you have a music collection on CD it can be dual-encoded which then provides for both a lossless version for your home music server and a lossy version for your portable player. Please call us for details.
Music Servers, D-A converters, & Digital Integrated Amps for High Resolution, CD-quality & compressed files
| Berkeley Audio Design | Boulder | dCS | Linn |
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| MSB | NAD | Naim | Custom Silent Music Server |
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High Resolution files are usually either WAV or FLAC files at sampling and bit rates of up to 192kHz / 24 bits. Not every music server or D-A converter can play High Resolution Files. So we have created a separate listing for those products that are High Resolution capable. Of course all of these can also do the standard CD sampling rate of 44.1/16, so if you transfer your CD's to your server they can play your whole CD collection plus your High Resolution files. For more information click here:
iPod and iPad adaptors
| Arcam | Naim |
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● Audio Research
One of the oldest and most established high end audio component manufacturers, Audio Research also makes preamps and power amps. The Audio Research DAC7 D-A converter is shown at the left.
| Audio Research CD Players |
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| Audio Research
CD5 CD Player and
Transport. $Call Audio Research CD8 CD Player For a link to the Audio Research home page click here.
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| Audio Research Digital-Analog Converter |
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| Audio Research
DAC7
Digital-Analog converter with USB.
$Call For a link to the Audio Research home page click here.
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● Berkeley Audio Design
Berkeley Audio Design manufactures the acclaimed Alpha DAC Series 2 shown at the left. Many people feel that this is the best value in high end D-A converters available today. It can also drive a power amp directly as it features remote control volume.
| Berkeley Audio Design Digital-Analog Converter |
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| Berkeley Audio Design
Alpha DAC Series 2. $4,995
(silver or black).
This advanced Digital-to-Analog converter autosenses and plays all standard PCM formats (44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192kHz at 16, 20 and 24 bits). It also decodes HDCD. For more info click here. [For more info on music servers that are completely silent so that you place one next to your Alpha DAC without being distracted by any fan or hard disk noise click—and also a list of links where you can obtain High Resolution files (like Reference Recordings HRx files, etc.) click here.] |
| Berkeley Audio Design USB to AES-EBU/SP-DIF Converter/ReClocker |
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| Berkeley Audio Design Alpha USB. $1895 (black). |
● Boulder
Boulder was founded in 1984 and has become recognized world-wide for its high quality products. They also make preamps as well as power and integrated amps. The Boulder 2020 Digital-to-analog converter is shown on the left.
| Boulder CD Player (also plays high resolution DVD's) |
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| Boulder 1021 CD Player. $Call. NOTE: This player will play discs with CD, FLAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, and OGG formats. It will also play DVD recordable discs (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW). So you can play full length high-resolution albums (such as the HRx discs from Reference Recordings) or hours of CD resolution music on any of the above DVD-R formats. However it will not the play DVD-A format nor is it a video DVD player.] |
| Boulder Digital-Analog Converter |
| Boulder
2020 D-A
Converter $Call. NOTE: This DAC can be fed from a CD transport as well as from a music server and will support high resolution files. It will operate at sampling rates of 32k, 44.1k, 48k, 64k, 88.2k and 96k, each at any word length from 16-bits to 24-bits, all via a single AES/EBU cable. [For more info on music servers that are completely silent so that you place one next to your Boulder DAC without being distracted by any fan or hard disk noise click here.] |
● Linn
Linn
makes three ranges of products: high performance audio/video products, including
speakers, custom installation products which allow house-wide music, and one-box
music or movie components.. Within these ranges, Linn makes
phono
components, digital components, preamplifiers,
amplifiers,
speakers, surround
sound processors, cables, and
tuners. The superb Sondek CD-12 is pictured at the left.
| Linn Digital Stream Players |
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| Linn Sneaky Music DS Player. $Call. |
| Linn Majik DS Player. $Call. |
| Linn Akurate DS Player. $Call. |
| Linn Klimax DS Player. $Call. |
| Linn Multi-Format Digital Players |
| Linn Classic Music - CD/FM & AM with RDS - "One Box Music Player" with preamp / power amp. Silver or Black. $Call. |
| Linn Classic Movie - CD/DVD-V/FM & AM with RDS - "One Box Movie Player" with surround sound processor / preamp / power amp. Silver or Black. $Call. |
| Linn Majik CD - CD/HDCD player. Silver or Black. $Call. |
| Linn Unidisk SC - CD/SACD/DVD-A/DVD-V/HDMI -
Audio/Video player with integrated surround sound processor /preamp.
Silver or black. $Call. Note: for a list of SACD recordings click here |
| Linn Unidisk 1.1 - CD/SACD/DVD-A/DVD-V/DVI -
Audio/Video player. Silver or black. $Call. Note: for a list of SACD recordings click here |
● Nagra
Nagra
makes digital components, pre-amplifiers, and
amplifiers. The Nagra DAC is pictured at the left.
| Local sales only |
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| Nagra CD Transports & Players |
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| Nagra CDT (CD Transport). $Call. |
| Nagra CDP (CD Player) fixed output. $Call. |
| Nagra CDC (Concept Player) variable output, headphone. $Call. |
| Nagra Digital - Analog Converters |
| Nagra DAC. $Call. |
● Naim
Naim makes digital components, preamps, amps, speakers, and tuners. A full line Naim price list link is here.
The CD555 CD Player is pictured on the left.
| Naim CD Players |
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| Naim CD5i-2 CD Player $Call. |
| Naim CD5x CD player w/ HDCD. $Call. |
| Naim CDX2 CD player w/ HDCD. $Call. Option: Naim XPS2 (for CDS3 or CDX2), includes Burndy interconnect. $Call. |
| Naim CDS3 Top-loading CD player w/ HDCD. $Call. Option: Naim XPS2 (for CDS3 or CDX2), includes Burndy interconnect. $Call. |
| Naim CD555 Reference top-loading CD player with HDCD and Hi-Line interconnect. $Call. |
| Naim 555PS Reference CD player power supply, includes PowerLine. $Call. |
| NaimNet Music Servers |
| Naim NS01 -
NaimNet-enabled single-zone
six-stream network music server. $Call.
info Coax S/PDIF 75 ohms 32, 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192 kHz sample rates supported. All other formats converted to 44.1 kHz. |
| Naim NS02 -
NaimNet-enabled four-zone six-stream
network music server. $Call.
info Coax S/PDIF 75 ohms 32, 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192 kHz sample rates supported. All other formats converted to 44.1 kHz. |
| Naim NS03 -
NaimNet-enabled four-zone six-stream
network music server - with touch panel. $Call.
info Coax S/PDIF 75 ohms 32, 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192 kHz sample rates supported. All other formats converted to 44.1 kHz. |
| Naim Music Server |
| Naim HDX Music Server. $Call. Playback of non-DRMed WAV, MP3, AAC, FLAC and WMA files is currently supported with bit-depth / sample rates up to 24-bit/192 kHz. More info. |
| Naim Digital-Analog Converter |
| Naim DAC, DSP-based digital-to-analogue converter with USB/iPod dock, remote control, discrete output stage. $Call. |
● Oppo
Oppo makes universal disc players. Their BDP-83SE is pictured above.
| Oppo Universal Bluray/SACD/DVD-Audio/CD Players |
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| Oppo BDP-93. $499 + shipping. info |
| Oppo BDP-95. $999 + shipping. info |
● Quad
Quad
makes digital components, pre-amplifiers,
amplifiers.
speakers, and
tuners, The 99 CD-P is pictured on the left.
| Quad CD Players |
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| Quad 99 CD-S CD player. $Call. |
| Quad 99 CD-P CD player (mains powered). $Call. |
● Simaudio Moon
Simaudio makes the Moon line of electronics. The CD3.3 player is pictured at the left.
Simaudio also makes pre-amplifiers, amplifiers, surround processors, and power conditioners.
| Simaudio Moon Audio Classic Series |
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| Simaudio Moon Audio Evolution Series |
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● Soulution
Soulution
makes digital
components, pre-amplifiers,
amplifiers.
The Soulution 740 CD player is pictured at the left.
| Soulution Digital |
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| Soulution 740 CD player. $Call. |
| Soulution
745 SACD/CD player.
$Call. Note: for a list of SACD recordings click here |
● Spectral Audio
Founded
in 1977, Spectral is one of the most respected names in high end audio today. Spectral makes
digital components,
preamplifiers, and
amplifiers.
The Spectral SDR-4000SL CD Player is pictured at the left. This is a true reference CD player. Plus it also decodes HDCD-encoded CDs.
| Spectral Reference CD Player |
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● Theta
Theta makes digital components and
surround sound processors, and amplifiers.
Theta products are available in silver and black. You will find owner's manuals
in pdf format here.
| Theta Digital Transports and Players |
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| Theta Digital-to-Analog Converters |
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