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| Are there digital front ends with the body... Tvad, you are absolutely correct. This is why I am always recording my vinyl to CD and DVD-A and A-B in real time with my digital. According to the ears of local audiophiles on a recent test, the digital sounded preferable to my vinyl. We used the... | |
| Are there digital front ends with the body... Mrtennis, for me, best is a live performance, preferably unamplified. I have this favorite local jazz trio playing in a nice restaurant for Sunday brunch. It is very noisy on Sundays but I went there on a week day and recorded the piano player liv... | |
| Are there digital front ends with the body... Both of these options represent the best digital solutions money can buy.When did you compare "the best digital solutions money can buy" to EMM Labs Signature combo? Any of the newest dCS gear? Latest Esoteric combos? Ayre? AMR? In your system? Di... | |
| APL NWO-2.5T A Review of a Classic CD Player Irish65, let's not mistake 32 bit processing with 32 bit DACs. Even a little Denon 3910 has a 32 bit floating point processor by Analog Devices taking care of multichannel processing, HDCD decoding, digital filtration, etc. Of course, it outputs t... | |
| Memory Player vs Dedicated PC-TopUSB Conv and DAC This is very interesting!Has this median reached the stage that it betters the performance than the top mechanism/drives from Esoteric.The vibration-free VRDS-NEO drive by Esoteric also uses a type of "RUR" and SDRAM memory to read the audio data ... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? Well, now you all know it, the AK4397 is, to my knowledge, the first 32 bit DAC ever, incorporating unique and patented technologies. I was honored to evaluate it at various development stages, including the latest finalized one. It is a "true mir... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? Tbg, I am not aware of 32bit DAC chip availability so this is why I ask. Who knows, may be such DAC exists and I will be very happy to find out more about it. Furthermore, there are many currently available Digital Signal Processors with 32bit int... | |
| What is new with the Memory Player? "The Memory Player's 32BIT DAC has NO onchip gain" This is a quote from the MP manufacturer web site. Ever since the MP was introduced a 32 bit DAC is claimed. To my knowledge, at the time MP was introduced, none of the current DAC manufacturers h... | |
| All the Emmlabs dcc2/cdsd hoopla.. Nil, I can re-send the two messages to you if you wish. I am sorry you did not get them!As far as I know, the Metronome is a CD only (based on a Philips transport), no SACD, DAD or DVD-A. I do have a modest vinyl setup here at my place and will ha... | |
| All the Emmlabs dcc2/cdsd hoopla.. Nilthepill, I have sent you 2 emails to invite you to the listening session that took place in Hollywood several weeks ago. There was also a blind shootout in San Diego the day before. May be you were away because you did not respond. The EMM Labs... | |
| All the Emmlabs dcc2/cdsd hoopla.. Cdw57, no, there are none NWO-1 out there simply because they were all upgraded to NWO-2.5 and NWO-2.5T (the latest). We have 20 units out and 12 in shop. Regards,Alex | |
| Has anybody heard the new Nagra CD Player? My opinion is based on number of experiments with computer based audio. The ultimate test for me is when vinyl is recorded to a PC, both to HDD or internal Compact Flash memory drive. Sampling rate is 96/24 or 192/24. Then using the same DAC, viny... | |
| Has anybody heard the new Nagra CD Player? Downloaded, ripped and recorded music still sounds best when burned to a CD-R and played on a dedicated CD player/Transport. The CDs may disappear but the CD-Rs will not. Regards,Alex | |
| Best Isolation Platform with Audio Aero Prestige Contact Critical Mass SystemsThey let me evaluate one of their isolation platforms for a week. It simlply brings everything to life. As simple as that.Regards,Alex | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players Socrates, please don't confuse the recording process with reproduction process. For example, DSD is a great format for recording/archiving, but it's a REAL challenge when it comes to reproduction (D-A conversion) because of the huge amount of in-b... |