antigrunge
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| Ayon Audio CD-5 versus CD-5s Melbguy,what puzzles me about cd replay relative to straight downloads is that you can significantly improve CD sound quality by applying liquids such as Audiotop as I have ascertained on my AudioAero Capitole 24/192 mk2 SE with discrete output st... | |
| Favorite 300B: Sophia vs KR While i have only compared the TJMesh against Takatsuki on my Wavac Ec300b, the difference is night and day. What makes the Takatsukis such a treat is the completeness of harmonic overtones combined with stunning impulse and decay. While my EATs h... | |
| The best digital IC, period. My vote goes to the Acoustic Revive cable on Sp/DIF and while I have experimented with Siltech, Chord and others, I feel that on the Acoustic Revive replacing the wallwart with a linear PSU yields real benefits. I think there is a need for researc... | |
| Bricasti M1 - where is the music I think that having a plethora of filters is nothing other than the designer's abrogation of the responsibility to listen. In the old days having sound filters (albeit in the analogue domain) was seriously snickered upon by serious audiophiles | |
| Ayon Audio CD-5 versus CD-5s There seems to me continued confusion over the advantages of reading a CD into memory before replay as in a computer versus just reading it on the fly as CD players do. Anyone who has experienced the vastly different ripping times on various CDs w... | |
| Bricasti M1 - where is the music I think one needs to be very careful about assigning blame for lack of musicality to the DAC; I run a Zodiac Gold + Voltikus directly into a Wavac EC-300b and find that musicality is much more a function of the server settings than any thing else:... | |
| Are CD players dead Pettyofficer,it seems to me that you are worried about the lack of physical backup. May I suggest you use a RW DVD instead of a backup harddisc and sleep soundly? | |
| Are CD players dead ...and I for one have not been able to detect any difference between a ripped redbook CD and an 16/44.1 download via itunes/puremusic | |
| Favorite 300B: Sophia vs KR I got them via Poland for 1300 and I live in the UK | |
| Are CD players dead Pettyofficer,what I was talking about was playing ripped CD in AIFF format on my Mach2Music through puremusic memory play upsampled to 176.4 via a Zodiac Gold + Voltikus, compared to playing the CD through my upsampling AudioAero Capitole 24/192 S... | |
| Favorite 300B: Sophia vs KR I have run TJ mesh, EAT and now Takatsuki 300b tubes in my Wavac EC-300b. TJ is fun but ultimately loose and wayward, EAT is too controlled to be real fun although seriously punchy and Takatsuki just sings beautifully although it ultimately has le... | |
| Favorite 300B: Sophia vs KR I have run TJ mesh, EAT and now Takatsuki 300b tubes in my Wavac EC-300b. TJ is fun but ultimately loose and wayward, EAT is too controlled to be real fun although seriously punchy and Takatsuki just sings beautifully although it ultimately has le... | |
| Are CD players dead There seems to me to be a bit of a luddite camp on this thread: while CD never managed to compete sonically with Vinyl, the same doesn't apply to digital, even in Redbook format through upsampled memory play. Hence I would encourage everybody to c... | |
| Zodiac Gold w/Volticus vs Bel Canto w/VBS-1 I have replaced my Audioaero Capitole with the Zodiac Gold + Voltikus combo and about 500 hours on it now. I run it off a Mach2music Mac on PureVinyl and have detail, texture, colour and soundstage ambience to die for. The USB connection is fantas... | |
| PC for Antelope Zodiac / Perfectwave DAC Shootout? I run a Zodiac Gold + Voltikus off a mach2music server running puremusic. Beware that the Zodiac needs at least 300(!!) hours of break-in before getting to its reference quality sound. It'll be miserably coarse and constricted straight out of the ... |