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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The most interesting horn ideas to me so far by SearcherOfBetterSound on 2007-04-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The most interesting horn ideas to me so far in Horn-Loaded Speakers  4 Replies 
I'm very inexperienced but I still try to observe things around me carefully. Here's what I'm getting at what can be potentially pretty good.. Well, all I can really say is I've been mostly interested in the design implementations of companies such a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Some new old stuff by Paul S on 2007-09-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Cogent+Electronluv+Acapella=Wretched What? in Horn-Loaded Speakers  5 Replies 
Romy said:"I am talking about that “slippery sound” when sonic granularity goes all that way down (positive thing) but along with loosing granularity the transport for the ‘events delivering” is also diminishes (negative thing)."Romy, I have for some...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #158: PC Audio by Amir on 2018-04-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
I spend my time/effort/money to get a good sound from computer or MacBook.my trial and error proved me that I could not attack CEC TL0-X by Computer Audio.I also lost my money 4500$ in ordering external PSU to Paul Hynes. Paul is not trusted and do n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Ripping with better playback by dlm on 2009-03-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To Rip or not to Rip. in Didital Things  2 Replies 
I also like the convenience of playback via computer with ripped files.  Theoretically, at least, and in my experience, if the cd is ripped properly, the sound quality is better than a cd player.  The reason I think so is that no cd pl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The Lapmpizator and the rest of them. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-13 
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 
I do not know the Lapmpizator but from what I have seen at his site I would not invest a lot into his assessment of sound.  Those people, like most of those audio-DIY people, do not any sonic objectives and their actions are just a series of endl...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source? by oxric 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 have been looking forward to build my own dedicated passively cooled, Windows based source, with external power supplies and SSD drive, based on an HFX Classic case, or even better, the HFX Mini Metal, sometime towards the summer of next year. See ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Emmlabs etc by de charlus on 2013-07-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
Due to this thread, I called the friend upon whose boat I heard the Vox Olympian in order to find out precisely which DCS DAC he was using with his TLOX to get the sound that I found so remarkable. It turns out that whilst the DCS unit was indeed pre...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Listenable digital playback by manisandher on 2012-04-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I hate computer playback. in Didital Things  17 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Be advised that any pro-computer playback in this there will be objected...[/quote]OK, I'll bear this in mind...I think computer playback is fraught with issues. Even a simple thing like the type of hard-drive used affects ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: The Bidat’s before and after. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
[quote user="miab"] Do you think the Bidat will be back before the move for impressions on the mods? It might be hard to tell what/if the mods make a difference in a positive directions if you throw a whole new room into it. Your experimental control...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Wadia vs. Sanyo as a transport. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A contemporary great CD transport for under $100. in Didital Things  5 Replies 
[quote user="Jorge"] Anyway a couple of months ago a friend brought over a modded Denon multiplayer,  I dont remember the model (I could look it up), it was highly modded, we were testing it with a projector and its Blue Ray capabilities,   he then i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: It is if you want it… 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 
[quote user="Stitch"]Romy, to be honest, I lost interest in those super expensive digital units after all those years. I had some and after some time I realized that they are good for the Ego but are not able to survive a longer time. Possible that t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: DA architecture: True Multibit vs. anything else. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DA architecture: True Multibit vs. anything else. in Didital Things  17 Replies 
Recently I found a way to make Lavry DA-924 to sound reasonable driven by my 16-bit CD transport. That made 3 DACs available to AD my 16-bit digital steam: Pacific, Lavry and Bidat. If Bidat and Pacific sound virtually identical then Lavry has very d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: If “that” task were solved then it will be “it”. by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The commercial music servers. in Didital Things  36 Replies 
Yes, the enclosure something like this, thanks for tip, miab, but it opens a door for desire more. A good box with fanless operation, 1920 x 1200 pixels touch-screen, 6 hard-drives, remoter control, $650 price tag is very good beginning.  W...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: USA SOTA FUBAR by Paul S on 2018-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
Josh, I admit I pretty much ass-u-me things sound bad until proven otherwise, because that's how it's gone for the 55 years or so I've been at this.  Still, these are just the sorts of speakers I'd go out of my way to hear, given 1/2 a chance.  Ironi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Tracking Problems? Here's a Fix! by Paul S on 2024-01-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How Well Shall a CD Transport "Track" a CD? in Didital Things  6 Replies 
Finally took on my mis-tracking CD transport, an Accustic Arts Drive 1 (Philips CD Pro 2 drive unit). I had looked online and I had the feeling my problem, at its root, might be caked grease on the optical reader rails, as I have had the thing for so...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Confirmation and Relief by Paul S on 2024-02-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Digi Redux; Drive 1 transport and iDAT-44+ DAC in Didital Things  26 Replies 
As I reported at GSC, my CD transport started acting up (skipping) quite a while ago, at a time when I was unable to deal with it. I thought at first I had ruined several CDs by playing them in my car, but that turned out to be a coincidence. When I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Amplifier Speaker Matching by Amir on 2023-10-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Marantz MA-9S2 Monoblock Amplifiers in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
Paul I do not know what happen between amplifier and speaker but I think matching of amplifier and speaker is one of the most important things is audio. matching is not just about dynamics/driving or having enough power , it is about perfec...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Same impressions here by Antonio J. 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 
You and I must be of the very few that find CD-R copied discs sounding worse than an original CD, most people find no differences or better sound in copied discs.I have a Marantz Pro recorder (631 I believe) and as a transport is pure crap, not even ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Ferrite, ferrite , ferrite , ferrite ... by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tuners and digital noise from DAW, A/D and D/A in Off Air Audio  10 Replies 
[quote user="Antonio J."]So I thought my tuner weren't properly adjusted. It has not been serviced nor recently aligned, I have no proficient technicians around who I depend to let them put their hands into the tuner. The damn thing always ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: CEC TL0 3.0 vs Audio Note CDT Six by Amir on 2019-07-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: CEC TL0 3.0 trasport in Didital Things  2 Replies 
I hope i could have a comparison between New Audio Note UK CDT-Six Transport and the CEC TL0 3.0. Audio Note CDT-6 is not in iran and it is very expensive around 153k$ . I hope i could have CDT-6 to compare with CEC TL0 3.0 . ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: TLOX etc by de charlus on 2013-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
Guys,The purpose of the exercise is to get the best possible results from my existing collection of Red Book CDs - I have them, so I may as well use them, purchased en masse as they were during the rather overstated "demise" of vinyl - whilst providi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Emmlabs etc by de charlus on 2013-07-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
Thanks guys. It's interesting to hear such perspectives, especially upon computer audio; to go by the "audiophile press", high-res computer files are the best thing since that proverbial sliced bread - just like DVDAudio, HDCD, SACD etc were - so muc...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Golden age by steverino on 2013-12-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0 in Didital Things  32 Replies 
It is one of those curious facts that Golden Ages generally occur quite early in the process of some domain of activity and then things slowly go downhill. In other words the Golden Age is followed by the Silver Age then the Bronze Age then the Slag ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Clarification? 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 
I'm not sure I'm clear what you're saying . . . if we're talking about using a CD mechanism to read files in real-time, during playback, we're entering a world of pain. Engineered solutions to the problems thus presented are expensive and specialised...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: A false alert. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-14 
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 
A site visitor took the Lapmpizator idea on and did what the Lapmpizator proposed.  He found that sonically Lapmpizied CEC  was “bit annoying and thin sounding” and the default configuration “produced sounds that are better defined in space.  Mea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: SS output vs. tube by KLegind on 2011-01-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tube outputted CDP's and DAC's in Didital Things  3 Replies 
Thank you Joaco for your reply. I was hoping tubes could ameliorate the brutal sound many CDP exhibit. I was at an audio fair recently and heard a Tentlab player with the Philips CD Pro mech and tube output that had a kind of gentle sound very unlike...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Streophile show 2007 and Haniwa by yoshi on 2007-05-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Streophile show 2007 and Haniwa in Horn-Loaded Speakers  9 Replies 
I just came back from Stereophile Show in NYC.  A couple of observations.  Haniwa's FPIC-100 DSP seems to be nothing but a typical DSP with digital crossover/equalizer/delay with auto feedback through a microphone set at the liste...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Why preamp ? by Wojtek on 2007-01-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The objectives of Einstein self-entertaining Preamp. in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Roman I have a problem with navigation on your site so I probably missed the post explaining why preamp should bare the response for absolute transparency ?You reserve the right for the amp to inject an X factor and the sources can do what they wi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Interested in reading more of your headphone experiences by SearcherOfBetterSound on 2007-04-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Interested in reading more of your headphone experiences in Audio Discussions  11 Replies 
Headphones can help people build good cheap systems, and/or also not have to worry about the room, annoying others with loudness. There's some ground to cover that shouldn't be THAT hard or expensive. If you've "given up" on finding good headphone so...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1543: Off The Shelf Power Cords by Paul S on 2017-02-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Jarek, please re-read my previous post, also Romy's recent post on this subject, carefully.  I'm afraid you are in for it once you start effing with power cords, for all the reasons we've listed.  Here in the US we have a company that sells used cord...
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