audioengr
Responses from audioengr
| Empirical Audio Overdrive DAC: King of the Hill? "How does one arrange a demo Steve?"Email me at nugent@empiricalaudio.comIts almost Newport Beach show time, so it will be after the show.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| DAC w/ low-voltage XLR analog outputs for EMM XDS1 There are two DACs that I'm aware of that have more than one gain setting:Empirical Audio Overdrive SEWeiss 202Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| Processor DACs "Steve N - so in a room with terrible acoustics, do you think it would be worth sacrificing the room correction for better DACs for 2 channel music?"Absolutely. Room acoustics will do little to improve detail rendering and dynamics if the source c... | |
| Processor DACs If you expect a SS processor to peform at the level of even a $1K Dac, good luck. I have heard many processors playing music, and I have yet to find one the competes with a decent 1K DAC.I use one, a Proceed AVP, but only for movies, and I'll be e... | |
| IPod to home stereo - How to get best sound? The best sound is using Wadia 170 or equivalent and then a good reclocker then the DAC.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| dCS to launch a reference USB to SPDIF converter Ed - If I had to pay for distributor and dealer margin, advertising and a staff of marketers, believe me, yours would cost $10K too.Steve N. | |
| DAC/Pre's Digital attenuation vs. analog Mrtennis - If you read the last 3 or 4 DAC reviews in TAS, you will see that once you have a really low jitter digital source (not a Transport), the differences in DACs are much smaller. This is the only way to compare DACs. Otherwise, you are mos... | |
| DAC/Pre's Digital attenuation vs. analog "I find it interesting you prefer digital attenuation with its lack of detail over analog attenuation with its high compression. I would guessed the analog attenuation would be preferable. I assume you mean down to just -9db or even lower?"Correct... | |
| DAC/Pre's Digital attenuation vs. analog MRtennis - No need to do this. My older discontinued DAC the Spoiler, which is not as good and used Adaptive USB reclocked, was compared to the Zanden5000 here:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?icomp&1211443920&read&keyw&zzsp... | |
| DAC/Pre's Digital attenuation vs. analog "my next project may well be a shootout of your DAC against the Perfectwave MKII."No problem, we can do that. Looking forward to it. It will probably be after Newport Beach show June 1 however.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| DAC/Pre's Digital attenuation vs. analog Mr tennis - The "analog" volume control on the DAC that I am referring to is not analog at all. It does not suffer from the gain issues. This allows the digital volume to be at or close to max, which is optimum. Volume control using analog "gain" ... | |
| DAC/Pre's Digital attenuation vs. analog "If I get your DAC but then have to control volume digitally on the Trinnov on the iPad (which is what I am doing now), I would not have the analog volume control benefit."Yes, you could still get the benefit if you adjust the digital volume on th... | |
| DAC/Pre's Digital attenuation vs. analog Edorr - The Overdive DAC has manual volume. It is more convenient to use an iPad anyway because you will need 2 remotes if the DAC has remove volume control, one for volume and one for music selection.Does your Trinnov have digital in and digital ... | |
| DAC/Pre's Digital attenuation vs. analog Edorr - what kind of digital volume control do you use?Is it a slider in itunes or Pure Music etc? Do you do any gain control in the DAC?The devil is in the details.Steve N.Empirical Audio | |
| DAC/Pre's Digital attenuation vs. analog Robertsong - there are two I believe, and Empirical Audio is one of them. $6K pricepoint for the DAC. Includes preamp, DAC and USB interface.Steve N.Empirical Audio |