If I were to but the new Ayre DAC (with Wavelength tech.), what advatage does playing from my Apple hard drive (Apple Lossless) vs. a red book CD in a Marantz SA11S2 modified?

26.47 percent.

16.47 percent.

FTFY, you must have missed that the Marantz is modified.

My bad.

Fuck.... this barely merits the effort expended to type a witty response.......

Guys, he asked what advantage, not how much of an improvement.

The advantage is that it would sound a bit different and some people would prefer it, while others wouldn't. You may want some people to prefer it while you may want others not to.

I for example that someone preferred my money to owning what is now my SFD-2 MkIII

I used to love Acts of Gord: Love the Gord, Fear the Gord

I tried to test, but I couldn't fit a USB stick full of ALAC files in my cd player without opening it.

Edit: I made it fit. The CD player is way better. I'd go that route.

very small rocks.

Well, we did do the nose.

A DUCK!

It's a fair cop.

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The good news is, you'll have a posse.

The bad news is, you'll have trouble telling them apart.

HeadphoneAddict to the rescue?

The tree has entered my hands,

The sap has ascended my arms,

The tree has grown in my breast-

Downward,

The branches grow out of me, like arms.

Tree you are,

Moss you are,

You are violets with wind above them.

A child - so high - you are,

And all this is folly to the world.

If I were to but the new Ayre DAC (with Wavelength tech.), what advatage does playing from my Apple hard drive (Apple Lossless) vs. a red book CD in a Marantz SA11S2 modified?

FYI a first most like that around here is practically asking to be wickerman'd in something like this

HeadphoneAddict to the rescue?

Wait, what...

1. Cover flow looks cooler and is faster than flipping through the CDs on your rack.
   
2. Selling the Marantz will let you buy more music. Or feed your cat.
   
3. Small children won't look at you funny for using words they've never heard of (e.g. "compact disc").
   
4. It'll be okay to eat BBQ wings and switch albums without washing your hands.
   
5. Drog, the music thief, won't have to spend 10 minutes carefully packing 250 CDs into a giant garbage bag.
   

FYI a first most like that around here is practically asking to be wickerman'd in something like this

And it's texture for pleasure.

pfft, it's not even ebony

It's what's on the inside that counts.

And it's texture for pleasure.

Yeah you really get to feel the pagan in you with that one.