Rank prejudice? You’ve always had it in for the Nagra CDP. I wonder why. Actually, it mounts a Philips CD-Pro. As I wrote you, I had a new one installed a few weeks ago, quite unnecessarily as it turned out. Matthieu’s stock trick during his time as a sales rep was picking up the player by the open transport and swinging it around nonchalantly.
Michele
I have nothing against the CDP per se. I just find its CD-Pro mounted atop the ejecting sled an unnecessarily over-engineered bit of show-off-manship grand Swiss watch complication style. And that comes at a very real price when a far simpler top-loading implementation of the same drive would accomplish the same thing. And unlike for example the Jay's Audio top loader currently in for review where a child could replace the transport module if it went bad, a Nagra must return to the factory. To me neither that nor the extra cash paid for a piece of superfluous engineering extravagance are attractive. But as you said, Nagra really went to town on their mechanics to make them virtually bullet proof. Someone once said that it ain't bragging if it's true. I think that applies here.
Srajan
Of course it’s engineering showoff grande complication style. Never found a source to match it though, up to and including the earlier dcs and Esoteric stacks. On a more serious note, it was time that somebody stood up to the streaming boondoggle. Rentaradio,pfui.
Michele
