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| Why is Sony Digital sound more like vinyl? Sorlowski - The 9000 is a bit of a problem, you are correct. I am told you can program a "soft" mode, which is digital signal processing that can ameliorate some of this, but evidently you sacrifice detail in the process. I have modded the digital... | |
| Why is Sony Digital sound more like vinyl? I agreed, piano is hard-sounding. What your tube DAC has done is limit the HF dynamics. You are getting the sustain and decay, but not the attack. This will make a Steinway sound like a Baldwin. I have experienced this "pretty" sound myself, since... | |
| Why is Sony Digital sound more like vinyl? Sean - I have a disk in teh 963SA on repeat-play for 2 days now. Have not tried it again yet. I installed a Jensen cap, so that might affect this. I am talking about the Transport performance, not the analog outs. | |
| Need some pre-amp advice... BTW - the ML #38 has processor balanced bypass. I use it in a combo HT/2-channel system myself. | |
| Why is Sony Digital sound more like vinyl? If the XA777es sounds anything like the CX777es (carousel) then it needs a lot of help in stock form. The CX777es mods out really nice - almost reference quality. The analog outs on the CX are AC-coupled, but I eliminate this - makes a huge improv... | |
| Need some pre-amp advice... Preamps are hard, probably the most difficult component to get right. SS are either dark-sounding or sibilant. Tubes can be very good, but can also be lacking in dynamics or LF extension/tightness.My own reference is an old Mark Levinson #38 with ... | |
| Why is Sony Digital sound more like vinyl? My reference transport is the Sony DVP-S7700. It does not have particularly low jitter, even after digital and power mods, but I believe it must be the digital signal processing that Sony does in their custom chips. It just sounds more natural and... | |
| Douglas Self on Negative feedback and distortion Eldartford wrote:"Frequency response is not the same thing as step function response, but it is correlated. And a lot easier to measure. If an amp is 0.5 dB down at 100 Kc it probably has good step response."You cannot make this inference. Step re... | |
| Recommended Transports for an Audio Aero DAC The Sony DVP-S7700 (with mods) is really a magical Transport. I have compared it to dozens of other CDP's and transports. It is just better, more natural and live sounding. I believe the digital signal processing and dual-laser is the reason. It's... | |
| What am I hearing??? Stehno wrote:"In essence, a poorly designed cable will produce or generate the exact same (moment in time) musical signal muliple times before the signal completes it's travels to the other end of the cable."Not quite. Smearing in cables has to do... | |
| Helping an amp cope There are some possibilities, one being to add global negative feedback to the amp if it does not already have it. Realistically, you need lower output impedance, which means more transistors in parallel. This means a new amp. If you want great ba... | |
| I need more cowbell.... The majority of components have the same weakness, lack of high-frequency dynamics. This is what gets you the cow bell. This is not frequency response, but transient response. Your components are good circuit designs, all of them and you have obvi... | |
| How Revealing Should a System Be? Different audiophiles have had different experiences with discrimination/detail rendering. I believe most go through a phase where they have achieved lots of detail by changing, cables, sources etc.. only to have it sound clinical or harsh, but al... | |
| please chime in... Lots of audiophiles are using tubes, cables and other tweaks to tame the harshness coming from their digital front-ends. The problem with this is that result is loss of detail, HF/LF extension and usually dynamics. If you get the RIGHT digital fro... | |
| Electrocompaniet vs Krell vs Musical Fidelity IMO, the ECD-1 sounds better than the EMC-1UP. Both have a reverberant, warm quality that results from insufficient power delivery, really strange digital circuit design and S/PDIF not matched to 75 ohms. For a stock component, the ECD-1 is one of... |