Rossini dac vs. Rossini player

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Do the Rossini DAC and the Rossini Player have the same sound quality? (obviously excluding the CD player, which I’m not interested in) thanks

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Aside from one having a silver disc spinner and the other not having it otherwise they are the same and therefore sound the same. Of course there is a difference in respect of comparing the older version with the Apex version.

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If you ask 10 members of this forum if something is the same, you will get 20 different answers (!) That is the joy of open discussions ; )

If you are considering a purchase decision, unless you are wedded to spinning disks, I recommend the player as the transport will eventually break.

R

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I’m not sure that I understand this. Have you mistakenly said player instead of DAC? It is the player that has the transport.

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There is a Rossini Player and a Rossini Transport.

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Yes but the the read is : Rossini DAC v. Rossini player. The CD/SACD transport does not feature in the comparison . However a transport is a major part of the Player.

I think that @keiserrg has fair point in that any transport will eventually break ( as the OPU is a consumable) and that this is important to those making a product decision and who are not interested in spinning discs.

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Apologies and thank you Pete. I meant to write: I recommend the DAC because the transport on the Player will eventually break.

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Owned 6 disc spinners in my life, never had any problems with them.

I like the option to play a CD with my Rossini, still have around 2000 CD’s

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I loved spinning disks, and the simple act of looking though music as a physical medium.

Then I realized that my entire CD collection, which was in stacks to the ceiling, could be stored in uncompressed lossless format on a thumb drive, and that was that… ; )

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once my dealer said that the rossini dac sounded better than the rossini player (the one that also has the cd), this only referred to listening to liquid music files…

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I wonder what he meant by that? As I said earlier, they are the same except one comes with a transport. Perhaps it just meant that or business reasons that he needs to sell a Player ? My serious point is that one should treat other people’s opinions as merely interesting. Only your own personal experience counts. NB: this in no way is meant to imply that Rossini DAC is other than wonderful.

What, like Handel’s Water Music or Debussy’s La Mer.?Or maybe he’s a pop music fan and likes Wet Wet Wet?

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Liquid, like streaming :wink:

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I’ve never compared them, but I make this consideration;
they cost more or less the same, I fear that by putting an extra CD player on the Rossini player, they have saved on the quality of the dac / streamer. Or maybe I’m wrong, I don’t know, in fact I was asking …

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One costs nearly 3,000 g.b.p more than the other.

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As will the Rossini Transport or any other Transport.

The key is, if you want to play CDs, can you find a transport with word clock input and cabling for less than the price of the difference between the Rossini and Rossini Player?

I looked, I couldn’t.

dCS did not cost cut on the DAC inside the Rossini Player as opposed to the DAC-only Rossini.

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Yes, the OPU is a consumable part, it it is easily replaceable.
It comes preconfigured and your dealer can do it.

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