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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Pacific Microsonics as the only DAC in a system? by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
Mani, a month or so ago you posted a question at this site asking how possible to use Pacific as the ONLY DAC in playback. Sine at that time you deal with Pacific was pending we decided to remove the post in order do not create unnecessary agitations...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold in D/A mode. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
In continuation to the "A new round of Pacific’s DAC listening" post.... I have a number of revisions of this little contest between two DACs in this thread and in other threads. In all of them the Lavry 924 has a little edge over Pacific Microso...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Pacific Microsonics Model Three by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-28 
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[quote user="coops"] I did hear a rumour that the Berkeley boys were going to make a new 'model III' but Mike Ritter quashed that particular rumour…[/quote] I did not hear this rumor but if I did I would not give to it much credit. With all cr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: What to do with Pacific Microsonics? by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
Since Pacific lost it’s battle to Lavry AD122 as AD converter I was wondering what I might do with this possessor. My initials sentiment was to sell but Pacific to my large surprise turned out to be a very good CD-level DAC. In fact it is so good 16B...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: A new round of Pacific’s DAC listening by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-30 
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First of all I had a good conversation with Lynx people. Pacific is very well known to them unit and many of their customers use it. They suggested as the most typical application for their customers to slave Lynx from Pacific in A/D mode and to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Revising my interest in Pacific DAC. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-14 
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Mani, interest in using Pacific as the only all-time on DAC revised my interest in pacific D/A converter section. I consider it as a great 16bit DAC and very good 24Bit DAC. The reason I did not elevate in my appraisal Pacific DAC to great status...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Pacific AD and DA in "fight". by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-29 
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Quite sensational, truly. I can’t not at this point to say that it is better of worth: Lavry Gold AD and DA chain of the Pacific. The Pacific has own “softness” twist and some extra futures making it difficult to “compare” with Lavrys. Much higher in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: The Pacific two is not a virgin anymore. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-15 
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Mani, Pacific is freaky and it detects HDCD code only at the resolution that it was encoded.  If it was coded at 16 bit then it will not read the HDCD at 20 Bit. There is an option in there that set the HDCD detection death… I did not play a lot ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The Pacific Microsonics A/D is back by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
Two month back I stopped to use Pacific A/D but yesterday, experimenting with some exciting things ( I will tell later) I discover a very interesting configuration in which Pacific is free from small compression problems that I reported before. I was...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: About contra-productiveness of stupid guessing. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-29 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Whoever follows the Pacific Microsonics  threads, or whoever use Pacific know that both Models one and two have an interesting idiosyncrasy: at maximum sampling rate, when Pacific runs in dual-wire mode, the clock runs at ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #60: ...another thing that I ‘hate’ about Pacific… by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-01 
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.... is that it is so freaking big! I kind of unsuccessfully trying to find a place for it in my rack and it is difficult. The most prominent to me Pacific’s function is A/D processing and it menace that I need to have an access to the A/D inputs – f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #67: Mani and his Pacific empathy journey. by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-07 
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Mani, I was pointed to your thread at about Pacific: http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/Pacific-Microsonics-Model-Two I do not want to join the thread and extend credit to the computer audiophile site. The idiot that runs t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #68: Pacific outside of Master Mode at higher sampling rates. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-06 
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I was playing some 168K and 192K files recently and I have discovered that the higher sampling rate the more sensitive Sound to Pacific serve in master mode. At 1X Sound slightly better in Master Mode, still tolerable with independent clocks. At 2X t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Pacific Microsonics as the only DAC in a system? by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
Mani, a month or so ago you posted a question at this site asking how possible to use Pacific as the ONLY DAC in playback. Sine at that time you deal with Pacific was pending we decided to remove the post in order do not create unnecessary agitations...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: ...his damn Pacific + LSB code + his attitude... by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The BSO and Digital Music. in Didital Things  44 Replies 
It would be nice if somewhere exist a community of Pacific users with some kind of knowledge base about different ways to used this processor, but I think this time has gone as the HDCD time has gone… In the world of 16.44 only the HDCD was good....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Lynx can handle up to 200.000Khz by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The optimum Sampling Rate for bass. in Didital Things  3 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"] I've wanted to do this comparison for a while now. Apart from just not having the time recently, the biggest obstacle has been not being able to use the Pacific in Master mode above 96KHz. As you know, it will only output a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Pacific Model 2 Problem and better practice by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-27 
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It is not a problem I guess if used it as it is it was intended – as a mastering processor but as a A/D, D/D, Reference Master Clock processor that work with any sampling rates and resolutions it is it kind of a bit pain in ass.  I do have a number o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: The Pacific is back and the Euphonix sold. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-29 
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Got the Model 2 from Euphonix a few days back. Expensive but they did a very good job. If even a part of what they said they did was done to my unit then they did not change enough. BTW, Euphonix was sold a few days back to Avid. Will new Avid/Euphon...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #80: Pacific repair. by Romy the Cat on 2010-04-29 
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The problem with my unit was that in A/D of one channel there was some kind of “very high precision capacitor” the value of which drifted. That offset the A/D and presented the unit to but up. There were a few other minor things that they found and a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Pacific Microsonics Model Two: What Platform, Software and Card by xcortes on 2011-03-17 
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I asked Romy the following question: I'm contacting you because I own a Pacific Microsonics Two that I'm planning on using to playback high resolution digital files. I'm now in the process of choosing a platform, card and playing software. I k...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: The Pacific Microsonics A/D is back by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
Two month back I stopped to use Pacific A/D but yesterday, experimenting with some exciting things ( I will tell later) I discover a very interesting configuration in which Pacific is free from small compression problems that I reported before. I was...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The Lavry 924++ vs. Pacific Microsonics DAC by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Lavry Gold DA924 ++ in Didital Things  25 Replies 
Did I tell you that Pacific Microsonics DAC is a phenomenal 16-bit DAC? I did not lie and it is very good. Look however what the updated Lavry 924++ did with it. They are very short and small (6Meg) files, mono, 88/24 with a few seconds of opening o...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: What to do with Pacific Microsonics? by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
Since Pacific lost it’s battle to Lavry AD122 as AD converter I was wondering what I might do with this possessor. My initials sentiment was to sell but Pacific to my large surprise turned out to be a very good CD-level DAC. In fact it is so good 16B...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: I am switching to Pacific, finally… by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-04 
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After all I just realized that I am due to my Moronity I did not use the full capacity of Pacific Microsonics A/D. Since I have fugue it out it just open a second round of my love to this processor and I am switching to use it as my main recoding A/D...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Pacific Microsonics Model Three by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
[quote user="coops"] I did hear a rumour that the Berkeley boys were going to make a new 'model III' but Mike Ritter quashed that particular rumour…[/quote] I did not hear this rumor but if I did I would not give to it much credit. With all cr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 by manisandher on 2009-05-28 
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Hi,I've just taken receipt of a Model 2 to use as a DAC in my study (using the ADC occasionally for recording live from a mic). I would like to feed the balanced XLR outputs of the Model 2 into the single-ended RCA inputs of my Berning Siegfried amp,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Pacific and multibitism… by Romy the Cat on 2009-04-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reference Recordings “digital master” and Berkeley's new DAC in Didital Things  13 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"]I received three Reference Recordings discs yesterday - 'Exotic Dances from the Opera', 'Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances' and 'Dick Hyman Thinking of Bix'. I'm surprised that I actually like these (musically speaking) more tha...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: The Pacific two is not a virgin anymore. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-15 
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Mani, Pacific is freaky and it detects HDCD code only at the resolution that it was encoded.  If it was coded at 16 bit then it will not read the HDCD at 20 Bit. There is an option in there that set the HDCD detection death… I did not play a lot ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #10: Pacific is full of surprises… by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-02 
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[quote user="manisandher"]For a living, I teach presentation skills to executives and senior managers ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJetXp2r3pc ) . I always begin by considering the listeners and what they are looking for. I'll ask people what turns ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: The Pacific Model 2: the recording. by Romy the Cat on 2009-06-07 
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I did today my first recording with Model 2. The configuration-wise it was very cool. The Pacific now in single-wire mode while it does A/B to 88/24 and the clock also outputs 88K. The single-wire mode is the reason why I moved from the Model One...
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