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Sounds like your non-cable digital experience is similar to mine. My own transport is "1st generation", non-oversampling for a targeted reason, as is my DAC.Back to cable:I'd bet that many people would regard the Synapse cable as a "simple solut...
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Short answer yes, the auto sample rate sensing, dithered volume and eq are useful features , the Metric halo/ Sonic Studio Model 4 is also a cracking adc/dac.But yes primarily the sound, did you get a chance to listen to Amarra at Flemings? Keith....
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[quote user="manisandher"] Oh yes, I've tried this for sure. There is a difference between the three modes; DIG_IN, REFWCLK and MASTER. The first two seem to add something in the HF that I can imagine many people judging as being 'extra resolutio...
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So at what point are the sellers going to be obliged to tell us if it's as per original or upsampled? Or just a lie printed to squeeze out more cash?...I am building a linux server right now and will be attaching it to a DAC in a week or so that wil...
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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 performance with a relatively poo...
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To answer the question WRT reliability.
I have built wholly switched mode amps with 2A3, 300B and now a 45.
I
also have a DAC 44...
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Not a refrigerator but a serious output transformer. This is from the new Audio Note (UK) Ultra Amplifier, something here and here.Cheers!...
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Romy does explain things correctly, in his own way of course.Modern electrical field theory has it that the electrical field attached to a cable, stops progressing along the cable for every vector change in the field. Not exactly a digital event but ...
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Peter, I wish I had more confidence in the amp's power supply as significant proof against the full range of AC power nasties. In fact, I have long had the sense that there is such a thing as "over-regulation" where hi-fi power suppli...
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The first time I heard the Sony 777 playing a "SUPERCD" I could barely restrain myself from bolting! Absolutely abominable, and this from the guy who did my favorite "redbook" DAC...Since I know you are looking I will try to pay attention, something...
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Oh sure, it is no guarantee of anything, but a priori would seem a larger step than many of the preceding. Though of course it is worrying to read about changes made in response to "listening tests" without any indication of who the listeners were an...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Do not get me wrong, I do like the BSO files sound but I also admit that it is not as good as it might be. The Cat[/quote]The 88.2/24 files are HDCD... according to my DAC!Mani...
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Ok, thanks for explaining. I
few things I would like to note.
If your preamp, being
incorporated between you front-end and you power amps degrades sound in any way
or does not make sound better then it is not a good preamp. Period, there is n...
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I do not know what Game Changer is in context of the guy who
wrote it. He is compiling for audio shopper the "short list of products to
consider for the next audio component you buy", in the best traditions of industry-estimable
but boring and pre...
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http://www.lampizator.eu/NEWDAC/Lampizator/Welcome_to_LampizatOr.html
He has 7 different "generations" or "levels" of his DAC depending on what one can afford to pay. If you go through the various models, his di...
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[quote user="op.9"]the horns come out of a rakk dac with lundahl LL1674 passive outputs the midbass use a behringer DEQ2496 (26cm delay) modified with passive outputs.[/quote]James, if you use this DEQ2496 then you might find this thread worth attent...
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I got this link from I believe AU site that dedicated to some kind of DAC that they have to themselves as another Messiah. I do not know what the DAC is about and made a few posts in there regarding a speaker setup. The link is a French translati...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Well, you can count me among those who are perennially frustrated by all the unnessary stupidy that goes into most recordings, that's for sure, although I have several hundred records that I would like to keep for the p...
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[quote user="rwjp"]I live in Melbourne Australia and happened to listen to this live broadcast last night, at a low level due to having two young kids.
Although i don't listen to a lot of classical music, with a new tuner in my system i am finding m...
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[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...
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A site reader sent me last nigh a link to a Yahoo newsgroup where a guy posted at feedback about Accuphase T-1100
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/FMtuners/message/66682
Here is the content of the newsgroup post:
David...
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Romy,You say that the digital read from your transport is better than the multiple reads of CD-Rom with EAC software?Thats interesting!!! It means that it is better to read once in a 'good' way than ten times to read garbage and average it.So, all th...
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Hi Romy Indeed you sound a little racist, but i think we all have our prejudice. Funny enough, i didnt recognize nor cared, spotted the horn with my eyes, went in and listened.Now, read this carefully: I listened to the system with closed eyes, for ...
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Post #116:
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Amir
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2017-01-25
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[quote user="nycparamedic"]After living with my current custom Linux music server does not leave me wanting anything much when it comes to playing music:A PC Engines ALIX single board computer in a small aluminum enclosure and running Voyage Linux. T...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Yep, Telstar. The 1547 was use in Sony and Teac CD players and believe the first CD-SACD machines used that chip. I know very little about those chips and have none of my personal experience to deal with all of it. The reas...
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[quote user="Lbjefferies7"] http://www.weiss-highend.ch/computerplayback/Digital_Level_Control.pdf
Here's Weiss's paper on the subject. It features a cat, so it must be right All of the explanations are beside the point, however, as there r...
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Paul,It would be improper for me to write down what I have worked on over almost 40 years in the telcoms business. WRT a CV for example, I have in the past written it all down and the reviewers do not believe it. Eventually, i stopped bothering abo...
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3MBS tell me that they cuurently do not know which bit rate is going to be used in their digital broadcast. They have a contract with another company which decides on how much bandwith is allocated. They are pushing for a high bandwith because th...
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I listened to these files for two (2!) hours last night. Over and over again. Don't ask why. The choice of music is unfortunate but it is what it is.
There must be some physiological activity going on with the A8 box as I became somewhat accustom...
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I do suggest to re-read my post above where I stated that Pacific has remarkably similar sound to Bidat. In Bidat there is one quality that sets it apart from any other converters out there – the Bidat’s dynamic bursts are orders of magnitude less an...
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