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| Jitter reduction, best device? The best way I know to reduce jitter to the lowest possible levels is to do it internally inside the player/unit where the unit is extracting digital information from a CD/DVD/SACD disc or a hard drive. This is done via a internal clock replacment... | |
| OPPO 980 h dvd mod? Hi Storyboy,The firms that modify and provide new modified players for the oppo units provide full warrantys on the entire unit top to bottom. So in case a transport laser goes out or something happens, the entire unit (including labor) is under w... | |
| Marantz sa 8260: buy or run away I would run away! Stay away from the SA-8260 and get a SA-8001! A good deal of these SA-8260 units are plagued with TOC reading errors and laser issues and the main circuit board is too thin and will sometimes crack in shipping/handling. I have se... | |
| Difference between Nad S500i vs Arcam cd92 NAD S500i is very smooth and buttery unique sounding player. This sound is created by their Class A biased analog output stage. This sound is great for easy, laid back type of listening. However I did not find the S-500 to be dynamic and resolving... | |
| Amp for Paradgim Studio 100 Daltonlanny,sorry for the 11 month late reply! Even though I posted that message almost 2 years ago!At the time I was using a modified Forte F44 preamp, it was a pretty good combo.today I use exotic Audio consutling passive volume controls for vol... | |
| Music Hall Maverick SACD Player? The Music Hall MMF-CD25 is just a relabeled Shanling CD-S100. I opened both of them to modifiy and its clear as day.The Usher CD100 is very similar to these as well, but we noticed they had done some light tuning inside with better grade caps and ... | |
| Does removing the plastic covers on caps help? Plastic does not sound good as a reducer, thats why they (and I) remove plastic from caps, and also transformers. Notice a nice improvement whenever I do both.Yes I do notice more "air" which could have something to do with "ringing" I would suppo... | |
| SPeakers 90% of your sound I agree that the room makes a huge difference, and with that, all the other factors as well, (person, equipment, quality and materials used, etc..... the list goes on)Do what I did, make sure you have all of your bases covered, and do everything t... | |
| paradigm studio 100 VS. triangle celius Thanks Aram! I have spent over 30+ hours total working on these speakers and beleive me it was a pain, but well worth it! | |
| Ok this will be a good thread. Mains! Without getting this right your missing so much of the sound and emotion. | |
| paradigm studio 100 VS. triangle celius Ozfly, I put around 300 total feet of silver wire to replace all internal wiring for both speakers drivers and parts, deleted binding posts, deleted any connectors, tweaked crossovers/parts, speakers sit on custom made isolation boards, rings arou... | |
| paradigm studio 100 VS. triangle celius I compared my HIGHLY MODIFIED Studio 100's ver2 to many other types of speakers including B&W N802's, Maggies, verity tomino, JM labs cobalt 926, Mini grande utopia, etc... These were in lots of different systems, and its very hard to get ever... | |
| McCormack DNA-225 vs. Threshold T800D I noticed my DNA-225 runs rather warm all the time as well. Runs actually much hotter than alot of other amps I've seen. But probably not as hot as any Class A type amp.I did change out the puny 16awg (I believe) wire internally with Belden 83802 ... | |
| McCormack DNA-225 vs. Threshold T800D I am also awaiting to see what he has to offer for the DNA-225. I hope he can provide a package that will blow alot of 5K-10K amps out of the water. we'll see. | |
| CD player with volume control Wadia 830 ($1700 used or even less)CD player with a true digital volume control, no loss of resolution, and great sound. |