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In the Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold.
Post Subject: The Pacific turned out to be a marvelous 16-bit DAC.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/23/2007
To my big surprise the Pacific tuned out to be an absolutely wonderful 16-bit DAC - the only one that migh compete with by Bidat. It does not go into max weigh of lowest end as some other best converters do but it has such an interesting and reach “everything else” that I am contemplating with lucrative idea to use it as a perm converter for my CD transport. Yes, the “contrasty” Lavry will be sitting with my DAW and Pacific will be running off my preamp output. Still it would be so great if I employ Pacific as my 16-bit DAC.
The problem is that I afraid that I will kill this processor kipping it on all time. I never shoot down my DAC (Bidat is up for years) and I am not convinced that Pacific meant to be running all time on. It is huge, it has 200W-consuming separate power supply, it has cooling fans inside and it look more like a mashie that should be activate only during studio production work, not to be on all time… It cumbersome and it need to have 3 buttons to punish in order to power itself down. It stars for a half-minute; go over loadings of DSP packages, calibration and so on… Manual suggest running Pacific for 30 minutes before starting any critical production work – does not sound too optimistic for my home dally use. From a different perspective my Melquiades does not sound right for a first 30-40 minutes as well…
Well, I do not know what to do. I will try to find somehow who repair them and will try to learn if the processor be OK to run all time…. I really would like to have Pacific running as my 16Bit DAC – extremity pleasant result with TL0 transport…
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