Dear (CP 800) Friends,
A long time we are waiting for the ethernet streaming card from Classe. Whatever it exactly it brings us, how it works .... we still dont know.
Iám busy with streaming: all CD's + flac downloads on a NAS and to play this over the stereo. I used Win 7 laptop over usb to cp 800. This works fine.
Nevertheless: it not so comfortable, has no ipad app, makes some noise.
So this weekend I bought the Logitech squeezebox touch.
I upgraded the software to Ehanced Digital Output: meaning it does asynchronous usb. ! (details see other logitech forum).
Note : this beauty costs less than 200 euro. (projected classe ethernet card) 500 e).
This evening i made direct direct A/B comparision on my CP 800, CA2300, 802 Di between:
1. Logitech touch, fed from Nas over ethernet cable, usb out, furutech usb cable to CP 800.
2. Classe CP 100 used as transport, van den Hul dig coax to CP 800.
So with 16/44 material; logitech supports higher but of course CP 100 does not.
Nice to make direct A to B input comparisons!
Result: NO difference!.
So for me this end of the story for expensive CD players, transports etc. I cannot hear difference with a 200e Logitech transport.
Plus I have the comfort of touch screen browsing at the logitech itself or with ipad on sofa through my entire music collection.
(For those not blessed with DA converter .... it has analogue outputs also, but didnot check those, actually I switched them off in software menu).
Just wanted to inform you. Thinking ... if you can buy a cp 800 ... 200e for a Logitech touch should no problem .
For me this a bit world changing... acces to your music collection from sofa.
Hope this made you happy!
A long time we are waiting for the ethernet streaming card from Classe. Whatever it exactly it brings us, how it works .... we still dont know.
Iám busy with streaming: all CD's + flac downloads on a NAS and to play this over the stereo. I used Win 7 laptop over usb to cp 800. This works fine.
Nevertheless: it not so comfortable, has no ipad app, makes some noise.
So this weekend I bought the Logitech squeezebox touch.
I upgraded the software to Ehanced Digital Output: meaning it does asynchronous usb. ! (details see other logitech forum).
Note : this beauty costs less than 200 euro. (projected classe ethernet card) 500 e).
This evening i made direct direct A/B comparision on my CP 800, CA2300, 802 Di between:
1. Logitech touch, fed from Nas over ethernet cable, usb out, furutech usb cable to CP 800.
2. Classe CP 100 used as transport, van den Hul dig coax to CP 800.
So with 16/44 material; logitech supports higher but of course CP 100 does not.
Nice to make direct A to B input comparisons!
Result: NO difference!.
So for me this end of the story for expensive CD players, transports etc. I cannot hear difference with a 200e Logitech transport.
Plus I have the comfort of touch screen browsing at the logitech itself or with ipad on sofa through my entire music collection.
(For those not blessed with DA converter .... it has analogue outputs also, but didnot check those, actually I switched them off in software menu).
Just wanted to inform you. Thinking ... if you can buy a cp 800 ... 200e for a Logitech touch should no problem .
For me this a bit world changing... acces to your music collection from sofa.
Hope this made you happy!
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