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Here's a computer playback approach that I though people might be interested in. In many ways, it's pretty much the leading edge of computer playback as far as I know.The idea here is to isolate the DAC as much as possible from the PC. All the audio ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Computer playback has no autobiographical value. CD, LP, tape etc have autobiographical value and sometime huge value. A location on HD has none of it.[/quote] Agreed.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]... there are zillion valuabl...
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[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 ...
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... am intrigued with DSD DACs. And for three main reasons:1) If you look at the attached jpeg (taken from http://www.korg.com/services/products/mr/Future_Proof_Recording_Explaine...), DSD recording appears to have a simpler path than most modern PCM...
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Hi Emanuele,FWIW, I've been disappointed with my PP2000 (the 230V model). I love the sound then it's running from battery, but think it totally destroys the sound when running under 'regenerator' mode. And as Romy has pointed out, this is totally una...
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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...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
manisandher wrote: I'm asking because I'd like to know how closely I'm hearing your vinyl rig. Do you have Macondo and Milqs? :-)[/quote]Not yet!But I'm wondering how close the sound I'm currently getting from your dig...
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1) Romy's file2) Mark's 2nd file3) Marks' 1st fileI agree with Romy's comments. Especially that his file sounds a lot more resolving - the "very fine micro-dynamics" that Romy talked about. I strongy suspect this is down to his ADC (having owned the ...
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This message serves to prove how our minds can do amazing things! Impressive things! In the beginning it was hard but now, on this line your mind is reading it automatically with out even thinking about it, be proud! Only certain people can...
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Romy, this is very interesting indeed. I'm assuming that the sonic difference between these two files is in line with the sonic difference you hear between bad and good 'electricity' days when you're just listening to music, with no recording chain i...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]BTW, there are reasonably simple tests to verify that your unit does or does not have the problem that my November units has, the testing procedures you will need to get from PurePower.[/quote]I will certainly look into thi...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I still doubt that you were, by the virtue of insulation transformer and ground, able to get what PP2000 gives but as you understand there is no ways, or even needs, to address my doubts.[/quote]Yes agreed, there's no need ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]... you did not make those comments about electricity by listening of that Jeff Buckley, did you?[/quote]Yes, of course. Forget your FIMs, MFSLs and ECMs. Jeff Buckley is the only CD that a true audiophile needs. Oh and Pat...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Are advocating a scenario to use Neutral bout to ground and to use external ground as external neutral?[/quote]NO, NO, NO, NO. I'm not advocating this, nor have I done anything remotely close to such craziness.I'm actually ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I will go today to a store and will buy 25 cheating plugs, completely isolating my playback ground from PP2000 ground an use my own ground.[/quote]Well this is what I was struggling with. Will cheater plugs truly isolate y...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Instead of simply fixing the PP2000 you decided to try isolation transformer way.[/quote] With all due respect Romy, you of all people know that applying the term "simply fixing" to the PP2000 is ridiculous. I don't have th...
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Romy, no not at all. I'm listening to music right now and prefer running directly from my new AC mains rather than from the PP2000 battery. But it's so soon after my dedicated mains system has been installed that maybe I should just wait a while befo...
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Well, my dedicated mains supply is now active. It took over 2 months to install because my electrician seems to have an aversion to working more than 1/2 an hour a day. But he loves hanging out at electrical supply stores... judging by the amount of ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]In my estimation our playbacks running from averages electricity I have here in Boston operates at 3-5% of abstract sonic quality scale. Use of the devises like PP2000 moves the “quality” to perhaps no more then 10-15%. How...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The change of the voltage from battery and from AC always was there, I have seen it on all PurePower Units but I did not even report it as I find it absolutely irrelevant.[/quote]Romy, you've said in the past:[quote user="R...
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[quote user="PurePower"]The obvious corollary of this statement is that if he can hear sonic effects in his music system that are directly correlated to appliance turn on, then his PurePower unit is almost certainly not operating normally.[/quote] We...
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[quote user="PurePower"]All of Romy's musings and tests on the relation between the electrical characteristics of PurePower units and his objective and subjective sonic impressions are not applicable to the PurePower 230 volt models. The difference i...
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Only on this website do I find myself laughing and crying reading the same post.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]PurePower do not need to collect opinions, including from me. The need to produce a product that has default operational sound and the made of ...
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I don't have a scope, so can't measure the output of my particular unit. However, if I were to guess, I would say that my unit probably falls alongside your #2 unit. When run from AC, the bass disappears and the sound becomes bright and edgy, to the ...
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This is very disappointing to hear.But in a way, it makes little difference to me. I had decided that I would only use the PP2000 from battery power when listening to music (or making vinyl transfers to digital). I've been playing the system this mor...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Those 3 new units had huge between butteries and AC.[/quote]I don't really want to share my thoughts on the sound of the PP2000 until my dedicated circiut is in place. But I will say that fed from my current utility line, t...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do not know, Model Two was not supplied with 'ground loop isolators', so I am not sure what you are talking about.[/quote]These are described in detail on page 8 of the User's Manual.[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have two ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The question that I would ask what do not pile everything to PP2000? Why do you want to leave anything out of it. Do you have any problems with sound with some specific components?[/quote]My initial idea was to run just sen...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Another cool discovery is that the new PP2000 looks like inject back to AC line less dirt then they did before, but it might be coming from the fact that I run each unit at own dedicate line and each units is loaded 3 time ...
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Sorry Romy I can't help you - I've never heard of this before. But I'm certainly tempted to explore further now...(Incidentally, my new PP2000 will arrive tomorrow.)Mani....
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