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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #192: Cessaro new Loudspeaker by Amir on 2019-05-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most promising “best” commercial speaker in Horn-Loaded Speakers  231 Replies 
Good news for audiophiles Cessaro new speaker is active and all Components like DAC DSP Pre and Power are in the new cessaro ported DSP loudspeaker.You just need a transport like cheap LG Samsung to play Ultra high end Sound ??https://www.cessaro.de/...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: It sounds stupid and irrational but who cares! by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Myth of CD clocking = True/False in Didital Things  15 Replies 
T, The phrase “"no measurable jitter” was actually the Ed Meitner quote and it was he himself who claimed that his transport and his DAC bound together via his C-clock interface have no measurable jitter. I have no reasons to disbelieve him regarding...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: My experience. by tuga on 2012-07-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 47 Lab Digital in Didital Things  9 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"]My EMM labs CDSA-SE is very unreliable and I think, I will do a last repair or maybe I will throw it directly into the junk box. Depends on my mood...but I found some interesting Design  from 47 Labs. But never listened to one.An...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: A thought experiment by manisandher on 2011-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source? in Didital Things  47 Replies 
1) I play a CD on an 'excellent' CD transport. I take the digital output from this (spdif or AES) and connect it to a PC interface (a Lynx or RME card). I capture the digital output on the PC as a .wav file using Wavelab or something similar.2) I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The external Soundcard, software abd TwinDAC by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The commercial music servers. in Didital Things  36 Replies 
[quote user="Telstar"] Oh I was thinking about FLAC, such as the ones from Linn Records, not raw WAVE files. [/quote] I use only WAVE64 (.w64) files, [quote user="Telstar"] Not really: it is not true 24 bit. But it should be quite good, exp for th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1137: 3000+ by DaveD on 2013-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Paul SI don't have vinyl playback at the moment.  My source is an MSB Platinum Data IV transport with transport power base, fed into a Metrum Hex dac.  The amp is an Ars Sonum Filharmonia.  So there isn't much of a power drain.  Also:  cabling is...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #29: Oven baked crystals by de charlus on 2013-07-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
You know, the more I look at the parts and construction of these things, the more impressed I am, for the price. I do like the look of that rubidium master clock too, again at an impressive price. Unfortunately, the closet dealer at which I can audit...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: Emmlabs weekend by de charlus on 2013-07-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
Romy,Well, in the course of a weekend I typically listen to a lot of music, but there are a few favorite CDs that I like to use when trying to evaluate things:Piano Music of Chopin, Brahms & Prokofiev, Lincoln Mayorga, Sheffield Lab SL505The Lein...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The best DAC not a DAC? by RennieB on 2013-07-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
perfectly able to understand you play a different ballpark but what if a good DAC is not such a thing. I orderd a Vicol shigaclone to be build in the Behringer Ultra Curve, with a spdif tube buffer to a Behringer Ultra match for upsamplingand a tub...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Did you try the CEC TL0 Mk2? by Romy the Cat on 2012-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 47 Lab Digital in Didital Things  9 Replies 
I do not monitor what is going on with digital for a few years but from my arrested development I remember that there was no more interesting 16bit transport then TL0…....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: High Quality Music Server / CD player by alexd on 2008-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Hi all.We are small company, dedicated to creation of highest quality audio products. Analog and Digital. We have auditioned many music servers on the market.However most of them do not sound as good as good quality 16Bits cd transport. The approach ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #39: Implementation by N-set on 2013-12-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount? in Audio Discussions  68 Replies 
Ok, 2 thoughts:1) Forsell seems to have some air suspension for the CD platter. I don't know in which axis/axes it works but if in the same as the rollers (lateral motion+torsion) then there is a potential for a troublewith a double compliance system...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: Bike's Innertube? by Paul S on 2013-11-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Mastodont DIY Rack: Wall Mount? in Audio Discussions  68 Replies 
Well, I hate to think N-Set's efforts equate functionally with such a "basic" solution. For a while I had my CD transport sitting on a wood platform that was "decoupled" by several blue rubber handballs that were stopped from rotating and interfaced ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Where did you see the transport in all of it? by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source? in Didital Things  47 Replies 
I do not know what you are trying to do, why do you need the Lynx card, why is need to be modified and what does it mean “powered individually”, the people looks like sell power supply and they push the notion of individual power but no one said that...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: CDP vs HDD by jessie.dazzle on 2008-09-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Romy wrote : "... did you use good transport to make this assessment?..." Electrocompaniet EMC-1 : Certainly not the absolute last word in transports, but still quite good* "...So, you have 16/44 dost and you can create a file from it, the file the y...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Sort of sad having learned something new... by Axel on 2009-07-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 'Beethoven Test' of playback. in Playback Listening  9 Replies 
Got it! It's -simply- put but 'en-point', thank you. The catch is, that most ALL systems do not, can not, 'transcribe' this simple but POWERFUL quality, 'greatness'. Even some really BIG systems I've heard can sound 'bourgeois' only, and some even 'p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: The problems in the DAW's switching PS? by Romy the Cat on 2008-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="alexd"]We are small company, dedicated to creation of highest quality audio products. Analog and Digital. We have auditioned many music servers on the market.However most of them do not sound as good as good quality 16Bits cd transport. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: A perfect copy? by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Interesting, jessie In  my past I was trying to make my PC-based music server to act as CD transpire but whatever I did a dedicated CD transport sounded substantially better, in fact non contestably better. I used various software to read CDs, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Battery Power; Now More Than Ever by Paul S on 2013-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Digi Redux; Drive 1 transport and iDAT-44+ DAC in Didital Things  26 Replies 
I touched on local electricity problems in a recent electricity post.  Briefly, the local nuclear plant has been shut down by concerned politicians after "leaks" were detected.  Setting aside mutated flora and fauna, sound has been worse more of the ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Perhaps you're thinking of a 'CD Transport' . . . by item on 2011-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source? in Didital Things  47 Replies 
Digital: “Binary data”Trans: “across, beyond, to the other side”-Port: “transferring or carrying”You'll note the conspicuous absence of reference to 'spinning disks'. By strict definition, a digital transport only processes data and delivers it to a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: I have exactly opposite finding. by Romy the Cat on 2011-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source? in Didital Things  47 Replies 
[quote user="item"] The data ripped to the hard disk is - absolutely precisely - the same as the data on the CD. [/quote] Not necessarily. The data on CD is very much not the same as stream I uncompressed let say wave file. It was what I ment whe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Reading into it further by miab on 2011-11-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source? in Didital Things  47 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] It was exactly what I was experimenting for many times since 2005 and I came to exactly opposite finding. I am not able to make neither LP, tape or CD to copy in digital that would sound like original source. I am able to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: Happy 2024! by Paul S on 2024-01-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Summary: my/your audio: year by year in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
2023 was pretty weird for me, continuing battles with health issues and enduring cures that have been worse in some ways than the ailments. Somehow, I managed to build and integrate The Loudspeakers during this time, resulting in what turned out to b...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #169: Digital recording/mixing/mastering by Amir on 2022-05-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Interesting that problems Harley isolated in this case (pits and lands; turntable) were physical/mechanical, utimately "analog", in that sense. I'm glad someone has stayed after it, but not sure how to put this revelation to work...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: The Pacific turned out to be a marvelous 16-bit DAC. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
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 “e...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Party Platform by Paul S on 2023-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo 3.0 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  51 Replies 
I did notice the platforms, and I figured it was something like this, since we've all heard the feedback loop that can happen, and we learn "what not to do" that way. Regarding your TT loosing LF atop a platform, I wrote here about my CD transport be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Alleged “upper range grainy hardness”. by Romy the Cat on 2005-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: BiDat: One more output in Didital Things  5 Replies 
[quote user="Chirag"]I just wonder if some of the slight upper range grainy hardness (transport?? cabling??) can be removed with better supplies or output stage.[/quote]Yes, Chirag. It is transport, cabling, amplifiers, tweeters, elec...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: CEC fixing mystery. by Romy the Cat on 2014-01-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Sick CEC TL0 in Didital Things  2 Replies 
Is my CEC TL0 stopped to work I was kind of suicidal as I do not feel to pay 10K for a new one and I will never find anything the sound as good. A friend of my suggested me to contact Nick Gowan who can fix CEC: http://www.tsound.com/inquiries.htmlPr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: DPOLS and Listening to the room by Amir on 2009-04-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Learn to listen your listening rooms in Audio For Dummies ™  15 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The "listening to the room" is NOT the DPoLS subject in my view, however, if you feel that it is then it is fine with me. The Cat[/quote]I agree with romy , I think DPOLS help us to find the most neutral zone in room but d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: It is problematic. by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: PS Audio's digital approach. in Didital Things  6 Replies 
[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]...anyone here had heard or used this device. Does it look like it will accept the range of BSO files I'm reading about?If we're unsure, I could contact Paul and find out. But that's a bit outside my expertise...[/quote] I ...
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