Not a very thorough comparison, I can do more: MicroRendu into the BelCanto? CC, MS600 and MicroRendu into the Hugo 2 with headphones?īut I’m not sure how much effort I’ll invest. But no, the CC is good but not as good as the MS600, I heard more heft and solidity in the MS600. I was fully prepared to call it equal to the MS600, my bias is for technical progress (although optical is a throwback). An interesting business school case study in there. The difference in size and price is partly technology, partly pricing forward, Meridian choosing premium pricing and looks because that is what they do but also because the market was small at the time. And conincidentally, while the CCA is $35, the MS600 was $3500 around 2010. The MS600 is a huge box in gorgeous casework, intended for prime place. Clearly intended to be hidden away, unseen. It’s an interesting comparison: the CCA is a small plastic puck, you can’t appreciate how small it is from photos, it’s like the center puck for a 45 EP for us old timers. I plugged the CC in with optical, and tried it both WiFi and wired with the Ugreen adapter. I’m streaming to it with a Meridian Sooloos MS600, plugged into the BelCanto DAC 3 through RCA SPDIF. I initially tried in a secondary system, a smallish library, where I currently use a BelCanto stack with Mark & Daniel speakers. Ones Ive looked at so far are: Q Acoustics 2000i (think these are a bit out of my price range) Q Acoustics 2000 (in my price range, but how different are they from the above) Boston Acoustics SoundWare S 5.1. I got a Chromecast Audio just to check it out (because $35!). Its a small room so only bookshelf or satellite speakers.
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