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| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Ctsooner, Ayre is a great company. I know they incorporated that new Thermaltrak transistor like Macintosh and that apparently accounts for a lot of their sonic merits. Is that used in your integrated? | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I just read a blurb about the Technics development on a Sonos forum. My first amplifier I got as a 11 yr old was a technics integrated. Fond memories.... | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup 11-25-14: GermanboxersAgear - not sure I am prepared for Starsound room construction...very elaborate and expensive. Jeff has been involved in modeling various room dimensions and construction techniques. We will use two sheets of 5/8" drywall mou... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Cstooner, I read and enjoyed your description of the Vandersteen event. The speed and energy of live music is hard to reproduce. I also celebrate your support of the brick and mortar crew. I miss that experience. In Minneapolis (where I used to li... | |
| Question about quality of Meadowlark I heard the Kestrels back in 2003, and they were fabulously musical. | |
| Zu Druid & Definition Roundup Jordan, so you decided against a Starsound room design? What are the design particulars that Jeff H has worked out? Ceiling height is a good thing.... | |
| Review: Intuitive Design/Pitcher Sound Labs Summit PSL 624 Speaker Csmgolf, there is a rightness to Dale's stuff that is indeed immediately obvious. I attribute a lot of that to time and phase alignment. I felt the same way about Meadolark (RIP). I just spoke with a dude in OK who now owns three pairs of Summits!... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD 11-13-14: Almarg11-12-14: CtsoonerI'd recommend for your electrical is to have totally separate and grounded (to earth) circuits for EACH outlet. I did that and it makes a huge difference. 11-12-14: AgearI too have dedicated lines with with isolat... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD 1-12-14: CtsoonerI remember when we set the room up for the first time, we realized how little treatment we needed. He had the Michael Green ceiling deals in the corners and that was it for the ceiling. He used a swirled ceiling to break things up... | |
| Entreq Silver Tellus grounding/earthing system 11-08-14: CerrotI added the Entreq (silver minimum) to my K-03 and it was like putting it on steriods. Great analogy-like when I aded my VPI recrord weight to a platter.Based on Dragon_vibe's experience, sounds more like a herbal supplement to me ... | |
| Is computer audio a bust? 11-08-14: McondonWell, if the sound of the PS Audio Bridge is representative of what Ethernet has to offer, count me out. I thought the Bridge, which streamed audio via an Ethernet connection, sounded awful. The PS Audio Perfect Wave Transport was... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Alex, EC designs and Lessloss have SD card players | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD 11-06-14: Paul79Ya, I hear ya. Hard for me to believe when I started all this, but tuning is necessary to get the best results. I to was of the mind frame that with the packet correction and retry, the digital source would not matter. Not so!!I wi... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD The real solution is using wired Ethernet instead of USB. This is a solution that makes the computer and its power unimportant. Cabling is unimportant. Even the playback software should in theory be unimportant, but I feel that it will be. This is... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD 11-04-14: WisnonIf you use a computer as source, the current rages are HQPlayer upsampled to DSD256 in Windows ASIO or Windows Server 2012R2 in CORE mode.I have been told that straight USB beats any converter with these two approaches, so maybe th... |