I have not played a CD for about 18 months as I have found streaming far more convenient with so much content available. My much modded Marantz 63 has a drawer problem and my old Cambridge Discmagic takes a bout a week to load a CD.

Trying to avoid Christmas and needing to tidy my man cave I saw my Pioneer DV717 (of which I have 2 - on one the SMPS PS has gone) and decided to plumb it in. Left on for about 5 hours to warm up. Dig Out to CA Dacmagic Upsampling Dac (same as from PC) The first thing that hit me was that I needed to turn my pre-amp down as it blasted out as it started to play. Second was that the bass was far far more pronounced than with streaming.

The Mids and HF were much as before. I didn't think that there would be such a difference.....any comments anyone?