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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #927: Too complicated but who knows by joaco on 2011-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Yes , romy I understand completely about how you feel with dc i feel the same way when thinking on all my system , to put dc on an amp , directly can be great but not practical , will requiere lot of space , a big battery bank etc etc , so not practi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1135: 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 
Romy,I don't recall seeing a bypass switch per se, and don't know if the other control functions ofter something equivalent.  I haven't really experimented with the 3000+ much, as my system is in a state of influx, with addition of items (entire cabl...

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 ...

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 #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 #14: Just Dynamics by Paul S on 2022-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: CEC TL0-X: by no means an in-depth review in Didital Things  17 Replies 
Never had a 100kg power supply to play with, but I have certainly noticed that changing the power source affects dynamics (along with plenty of other things, too). I prefer my friend's system's dymanics when "grid power" is connected, vs giant batter...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Why '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 
Part of the reason we call our computers 'transports' is to encourage people to think of the number-crunching part of an audio system in the same already familiar terms as a CD player - because all the same things matter: CD transports vary according...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Headless PC plus NAS by Amir on 2017-05-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EAR Yoshino DAC 4 by Tim Paravicini in Didital Things  24 Replies 
[quote user="xandcg"]Amir,If you are looking for a transparent DAC and it could have a built-in preamp, you may want to take a look on:Merging + NadacNadac Player, same but a built-in music server (or something).I did not listened to them, but at lea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Do you call your lawn mower as a digital transport”? by Romy the Cat 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 
[quote user="item"] For future reference, in case anyone else is as confused as I am about the content of this thread; from the horse's mouth: the Item DAT1 could just about be considered a 'DAW' (the SPDIF version records analog, and you can run...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: It does. 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 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  oxric wrote:By analogy, an Item Audio equipped with an optional blu-ray drive would serve precisely this function. It would spin a disc, extract the data and code it so that it is available for the next stage in the cha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Where the quality on digital source lives? by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
[quote user="decoud"]I know there has been controversial discussion of this here, but anything upstream of a DAC, i.e. anything digital can have only one metric of quality: jitter (assuming bit perfection, which these days is assured). Unlike anythin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Turntable interest, digital thoughts by SearcherOfBetterSound on 2007-05-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My feelings about new exciting audio products in Audio Discussions  25 Replies 
Why is Acoustic Solid so interesting to me? Well, it should be to most when you read stuff like a $1,600 Black Wood Classic model can beat out a $5,500 Super Scoutmaster model from VPI, and a $4,000 Solid One can compete with a TW Acus...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: This all are fantasies. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Oppo DVD player as a transport. in Didital Things  10 Replies 
[quote user="decoud"]The new Oppo uses the ESS Sabre32 DAC chip, which seems to maintain fidelity in the face of much higher jitter compared with others...or at least so the comparison above shows....so it might be able to achieve decent performa...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Digital recorders: what the "big boys" use? by Max Shatsky on 2005-01-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Digital recorders: what the "big boys" use? in Didital Things  15 Replies 
Hi Romy, Have you ever heard any burned CD-R that wasn't disappointing on YOUR transport?  My impression is that all this "CD-R talk" is very dependent on particular CD transport used for playing. Certainly there are other factors like CD-R...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: AardGRIB. by item 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 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Any computer does absolute the same level of universality by being a digital file player. My telephone does it but I do not call my telephone a “digital transport”.  Ripping CD it is not what your devise does but the fr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Data in = Data out by jessie.dazzle 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 
Romy wrote (in blue) : "... Are you saying that you are able to play from your PC music that you got by ripping CD and you have better sound from PC? ..." Yes, and because of this it would be accurate to say that my system is music-...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Bidat vs. Lavry DA-924: two years later. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A littlie D-War: Bidat vs. Lavry Gold in Didital Things  14 Replies 
As I told before I picked recently a new interesting DAC and I got for it some AES/EBU cables. That made me to make the same Bidat vs. Lavry experiments only to use the AES/EBU interface with Lavry Gold.  During those experiments I did not use S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Output Quandry by Chirag on 2005-06-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: BiDat: One more output in Didital Things  5 Replies 
Hi Alex,Short of waving goodbye to the Bidat for a few months, you could always TRY the splitter idea from your favorite cable guy.  It may be acceptable enough for your needs.Did you mean there is no space on the back of your passive/relay base...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: CEC new DAC DA0 3.0 by Amir on 2018-07-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
[quote user="Stitch"]Based on that marketing I would say, digital playback is now 25x better than live. Minimum.[/quote]:-)))New CEC DAC DA0-3.0 is in market , It will be connected to TL0-3.0 transport and it uses r-2r network. http://www.cec-web.co....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Still, Item Audio transport is not transport. 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="oxric"] By analogy, an Item Audio equipped with an optional blu-ray drive would serve precisely this function. It would spin a disc, extract the data and code it so that it is available for the next stage in the chain. [/quote] Ye...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: DVD-A should have been great but... by Telstar on 2008-02-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DVD for pop, SACD for classics in Didital Things  4 Replies 
...But they are poorly implemented. Something to do with the 24/192 conversion. AFAIK nowadays most recordings are done 24/96, but it will eventually go up when higher resolution devices becomes the standard (I think about Prism, but theres more).Out...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: I have a CD transport to read CDs. by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the DAW playback software. in Didital Things  10 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]Pacific Microsonics are filter kings, but if the Lavry is the best hardware, wouldn´t it be nice to let it play the CDs, too?[/quote]I did, the TL0 transport reads CD with so much more quality that any further experiments with DAC...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: An audiophile grade server: The Linux Solution by nycparamedic on 2008-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="scooter"]Gentlemen: ...*Regarding playback, I misspoke in my original post of an "Audiophile music server." Upon further reflection, this is an oxymoron, if not a moronic phrase. I think it is highly unlikely that a dedicated audiop...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1694: Pure Power Solution is over 90% effective by Amir on 2019-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="rowuk"]Alex, I have a APC RT UPS which is a regenerator and UPS in one. I use it for on site recording as you never know what you get from the wall socket. Dimmed lights, PA and all sorts of other devices like air conditioning and refrig...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Lavry/Pacific/AMR by coops on 2007-10-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Abington Something = Abbingdon Music Research in Didital Things  14 Replies 
Romy when you use your transport and DAC how do you connect them. What kind of putputs does the Lavry have, my pre only has xlr ( balanced ) or single ended inputs ,could I use something like the lavry, also do you have a link to pacific microsonics ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Kids by Daniel on 2018-03-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Goto SG-370DX measurement in Audio For Dummies ™  30 Replies 
This is a bit of a childish "I'm right! - No, I'm right! - No, I'm right!" 'discussion'. I know that there are differences between acouctic live, amplified live and playback of a recording and never stated there wasn't or one could ever be mistaken f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: It is what you tried or it was what the “editor” told you? 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"] If you want to spin a CD during playback, for nostalgic reasons, then a CD player is fine. The only reason to do so, however, is to extract stored data. Computers have better ways to do this that don't invoke all the mechanica...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: The digital attitude of mine. by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the DAW playback software. in Didital Things  10 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]Sorry for being so nasty, Romy,but I meant connecting the CEC TLO with the Lavry 924 via the dCS 974.[/quote] I do not see you being nasty, where did you get this from? May I ask you- what you proposed to drive CEC TLO into dCS ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: Timing is everything by jessie.dazzle on 2008-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Romy wrote :"...The USB is full duplex or bi-directional interface where stream flows in both ends. This enables designers to put a clock that might everything on the receiver side (DAC) and let this clock to manage the USB’s and even reader timing. ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: Cheap DVD player by Wojtek on 2011-02-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
Don't you have one which you could  use  as a transport to asses your DPA dac and make up your mind for yourself? (it may happen that you'll like cheap DVD player better sounding by itself) 90% of cretins who own Bidat do it only because  Romy prizes...
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