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In Reply to: So why does soundstage collapse on CD ? posted by snaggs on April 07, 2003 at 06:54:04:
From my experience a well recorded CD can sound good and have a great soundstage. The most impact on a good sounding recording are the speakers. On some of my CDs I get a 180 degree soundstage with height.
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Yes speakers are indeed very important. My 3.5ft high TDL RTL-3’s vertically-stacked drivers for deep-bass, midrange and high-frequency, do a fantastic job with CD of keeping the stereo soundstage as defined as possible.And regarding my CD source, by keeping my existing multibit offboard DAC (Audio-Alchemy) for my CD listening, I now use my Denon DVD-3800 as the transport input via SP/DIF, and the imaging & soundstaging improvement I get (compared with an old Marantz CD transport) is very noticeable indeed.
I suspect the Denon’s SP/DIF output feed is much more accurate than the Marantz’s was, partly because everything now goes through the Denon’s error-correction RAM buffer prior to output, and the subsequent timing of serial data release, ‘bit-by-bit’ can be extremely tightly controlled, resulting in hardly any jitter.
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Here is a pic of my diy speakers at this site.http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13015
Here is another pic with my speakers and my Tempest diy sub.
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=13152
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