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| Not wasting my time on new Digital Eldartford,Ditto! I was about to say the same thing. The problem starts with the recordings. I have witnessed A-B tests between a SOTA ($60K+) vinyl setup and certain Digital only to find out that, with the same record title, some sound better on ... | |
| Review: EMM Labs DAC6e Signature Edition DA converter Oneobgyn, The Denon I brought to Mike's house sounds good but can not hold a candle against the Esoteric based NWO-2. Is your preamp true balanced? How about the amps? I am just thinking whether Balanced or SE connection would be best in your syst... | |
| Review: EMM Labs DAC6e Signature Edition DA converter I hear what you're saying and I agree. Do you have more inputs available on your preamp? We can leave your EMM connected and use different cables for the UX-1 connection. The cables may be inferior to what you use with the EMM, I have no problem w... | |
| Review: EMM Labs DAC6e Signature Edition DA converter You are welcome to listen in my room but I am afraid you'd be unfamiliar with my audio system. Hearing it in your system would provide you with the best reference. Let me know.Thanks!Alex | |
| Review: EMM Labs DAC6e Signature Edition DA converter Oneobgyn, great review! I was privileged to hear A-B test at Mike's house between the old and new EMM. The difference was huge indeed. The new EMM sounded even more lifelike. Since you're so close in the SF Bay Area, would you be interested hearin... | |
| ESOTERIC X-03 VS. AYRE C5XE I would agree that some digital players can present a different sonic character compared to the Esoteric UX-3, but that does NOT necessarily means they would sound better to all consumers. When it comes to a digital player, some of the most import... | |
| dac chip vs analog stage as to sonic impact Mrtennis, that is exactly correct. Masking inferior digital design and DACs with tubed analog stage sounds really bad indeed, IMHO.At the same time, carefully designed digital with an appropriate DAC can do miracles with just a few Op Amps and all... | |
| dac chip vs analog stage as to sonic impact "if one were to assign a percentage contribution to the dac and analog stage as to the affect upon the overall sound, what might the numbers look like?"70% DAC30% Analog stageRegards, Alex | |
| Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's? Steve, I see, this explains it. However, please be aware that as good as it looks, there are problems transmitting separated Data and Clocks via single cable, especially in the case master clock is included. The only "problem" with S/PDIF is the m... | |
| Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's? Steve, does your device also provide the master clock for the I2S bus? Thanks! Alex | |
| Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's? Steve,.....The fact is that computer-driven audio is intrinsically superior to reading of optical disks. The only way CD's can compete is if they are read into a FIFO buffer and then read out with a precision clock, which is essentially just equiv... | |
| Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's? Ecka, this is interesting. The CDSD is feeding DSD to the DAC and in the case with your computer card the PCM also gets converted to DSD when it hits the DAC. Since I have an idea what is going on in the CDSD, it is possible that your computer wou... | |
| Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's? Clio09, well, actually, since I've learned the hard way, I was thinking to just wrap up the iPod with magnetic material and fill it up with Epoxy and some Silicone and offer it at $550. Battery power supply for it is in the works too at additional... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Looking at the X-01 schematic diagram, it appears to be fully balanced design with 8 parallel/differential mode DACs per channel. These are 4 physical DAC chips but each of them has 2 paralleled DAC output sections inside. This equals total of 8 D... | |
| Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's? Drubin, You can sure run the latest iPod to a DAC if you want, with similar results. :)I'd agree that the Computer Audio has a potential and a future, but there are many issues to be addressed first with it, if that "last bit of sonic excellence" ... |