Ridiculas puck questions
Posted by: fled on 16 January 2004
Is the puck the same for a CD5 and a CDx, can you buy spare ones and if you can how much are they ?
Phil
Phil
Posted on: 16 January 2004 by herm
Yes the CD5 and CDX use the same kind of puck. You can buy spare ones, and indeed I recommend it. The day will come your cdp gets hungry and eats your puck, and then you'll want a new one (unless you want to disassemble the whole caboodle). I forget what they cost. Not an arm and / or a leg.
Herman
Herman
Posted on: 16 January 2004 by Tim Jones
About £15 IIRC. A friendly dealer will quietly let you have one for free.
Posted on: 16 January 2004 by Phill82
seems an awfull lot to pay when you look at one.
Just an interesting point (or not but I'm going to say it anyway) - the puck for the CD5i is different to the CD5 and CDX your talking about, rather than the three little metal points its simplar with what just seems to be a single magnetic ring. But its also way stronger - clamps the CD down much more firmly. Naim make out as though the clamping that the pucks provide is a very exact thing - just enough to hold the CD but not so much that it affects the sound. So how come the CD5i puck is so much stronger. Isn't that going to make it sound bad? I wasn't terribly impressed with it when I've heard it (although it may well be better than my micromaga)
Just an interesting point (or not but I'm going to say it anyway) - the puck for the CD5i is different to the CD5 and CDX your talking about, rather than the three little metal points its simplar with what just seems to be a single magnetic ring. But its also way stronger - clamps the CD down much more firmly. Naim make out as though the clamping that the pucks provide is a very exact thing - just enough to hold the CD but not so much that it affects the sound. So how come the CD5i puck is so much stronger. Isn't that going to make it sound bad? I wasn't terribly impressed with it when I've heard it (although it may well be better than my micromaga)
Posted on: 16 January 2004 by minime
my new audionet cdp has a heavy magnetic puck it hasn't refused a cd yet either.{for now}
Posted on: 18 January 2004 by mattbr
quote:
Originally posted by Phill82:
But its also way stronger - clamps the CD down much more firmly. Naim make out as though the clamping that the pucks provide is a very exact thing - just enough to hold the CD but not so much that it affects the sound.
which leads to the latent question : has anyone tried the new cd5i puck with the other gear ? and, more importantly, does it sound different and / or better ?
Posted on: 19 January 2004 by domfjbrown
quote:
Originally posted by mattbr:
which leads to the latent question : has anyone tried the new cd5i puck with the other gear ? and, more importantly, does it sound different and / or better ?
Yes. When I did the dem of the CD5i/CD5/Planet/Jupiter. The guy in Audio Excellence swears that it was the right puck for the 5, but as far as I saw he only had the one puck IN the dem - the one for the 5i! Certainly the 5 I ended up taking home for home dem (I didn't get on with the 5i at ALL) had the weaker, "correct" puck.
He claimed it wouldn't work on the 5, but I reckon it sounded better in the dem room with the 5i's puck than in my room with its own puck.
Interestingly enough, MY CD5 straight out of the sealed carton sounded better than the shop's dem model I'd had on loan! Both were using brand new pucks btw...
I'm seriously considering ordering a 5i puck though...
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