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| Review: APL Hi Fi NWO 4.0 Master Edition CD Player Dear Hifirabbit,Thank you so much for the nice words, I appreciate it! Just to clarify, what you have is the new NWO-M. This is the Final Edition of the NWO series digital players. I also felt it is on a par with the best analog, so I've decided t... | |
| DAC for an Olive 4HD Hello Kapa11, My question is, does the newer 32Bit DAC´s really makes a difference?Although it is all up to the actual implementation, the 32 bit DACs make a difference by offering increased headroom. For example, you can hear better sound from th... | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players Hello Sabai, I agree with you! This is the very reason why when the official part of the blind shootout in San Diego was over, I specifically asked to audition the winners EMM and the NWO without the power re-generator. To everyone's surprise, the... | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players Hello Sabai, Very good points, thank you! The day after this shootout, we went to Hollywood and had another session at the house of a movie director. He has a dedicated audio bunker designed by Cardas and tuned by Rives Audio. This gentleman was... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review John,You audio room looks very nice! Congratulations!Best, Alex Peychevwww.aplhifi.com | |
| Any better DAC then dCS Scarlatti? Roysen,It will be also interesting how my new DAC-S will do against the SOTA digital contenders, including the ones you are mentioning, so I will try to bring one, just for fun. :-) Looking forward to it!Best,Alex Peychevwww.aplhifi.com | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Hello Roysen,At one point I thought about buying the 3.0GO but was not that convinced when I finally heard it. I now certainly need to hear the 4.0SE.Funny you should say that. I was under the impression that you were very impressed with the 3.0-G... | |
| The CD player is dead....... Mlsstl,Jitter only occurs during the actual decoding step, when the digital is transferred to analog. Until then, it is just another data file and you can move it around all you want. (It was certainly transferred multiple times on hard drives at ... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Frank, I use cables that are rated at 3pF per meter. This is considered very low. Usually, heavily shielded cables have high capacitance. Best,Alex Peychevwww.aplhifi.com | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Hi Roysen,The 4.0-SE is a totally different machine compared to the 3.0-GO with the following differences:1. New Master Clock2. New wiring3. New DAC chips4. New DAC board assembly5. New wiring6. New tube output stage with the vintage E182CC tubes7... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Lokie, Besides the transport, what are the differences between the 4.0SE and tthe DAC S? After a quick look at your website, the output stage, w the Luhndall Transformers, look the same.The VRDS-NEO transport has a companion called Digital Signal ... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review John, That is correct; NWO final sampling rate is 6,249MHz.The SACD is sampling rate is 2,822.4MHz at 1 bit. Some DSD machines upsample this to 5.6MHz (twice the rate) which helps filtering-out the noise. Metralla,This means that CD is being re-sa... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Can anyone comment on the output stage. I think that's where allot of high end digital gear is lacking in priority.Agreed! Output stage is a very important part of the equation. In the NWO-4.0-SE case, the output stage is differential (balanced), ... | |
| The CD player is dead....... I am still waiting for someone to explain why a cd player is superior to storing music on a hard drive and going to a dac.Sure! It is because a CD player is an "application specific" digital audio reproduction unit. The computer is not ..Probably ... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review John,Thank you for the comprehensive review, it is much appreciated! Guido,We can't make it to the RMAF this year; weve been busy with the new DAC-S development and several other projects we are working on. I am hoping we can attend CES early nex... |