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| What transport for my Birdland DAC? Birdland DAC's are very good stock, but can approach world-class when modded. | |
| Could you name a list of best redbook transport ? Turbomodded Sony DVP-S7700. Very low jitter and perfect impedance match. Beats everything else I have tried at trade shows. | |
| Question to Levinson DAC Owners Believe it or not, one of the best transports is a Sony DVP-S7700 DVD player, with the right mods, of course. The clock in this unit is so stable that even adding a Superclock2 makes very little improvement. I take some of these to trade shows wit... | |
| Neuance & Zoethecus,EMC-1UP & First Sound Preamp? The EMC-1 is colored and compressed in stock form. Rather "warm" and unnatural sounding. Not very engaging and certainly not very dynamic. Mods can fix this and make the analog outs extremely good. The digital output is not very good and probably ... | |
| most analog sounding CDP Turbomodded Shanling T200. Best CDP I have heard with redbook, and I've heard the Meitner, Audio Aero and lots of others. The Turbomodded MSB Gold with 24/12 gets close... | |
| What transport for my Birdland DAC? It is difficult to beat an old Sony DVP-S7700 transport with the right mods. The clock in this one is virtually jitter-free. Better than most new CDP's. | |
| Best transport under 2 grand for bryston bp25 da Turbomodded Sony DVP-S7700. Hands-down. About $250 used and $830 for mods. | |
| Getting more from my DAC I agree with Dne - the cabling between the PS and DAC must be upgraded.As far as modding the XE500, the issue is: no one knows whether it will turn out good as a transport or not. Perhaps with a $450 Superclock2 upgrade. You might be better off to... | |
| Getting more from my DAC Tarsando - this is the impression one gets when listening to stock components, particularly mid-priced such as those you have, although some do sound a bit better than others. Modifications however make a HUGE difference. This makes these sound li... | |
| Getting more from my DAC The transport is the primary problem. It can definitely benefit from mods, but you will probably need to put a Superclock2 in it at considerable expense. A digital cable is also recommended, and a good one. You can come really close to the digital... | |
| Denon 2900 w/ external dac Universal players often have the problem of playing SACD extremely well and redbook CD very poorly. You may improve it by modding it, but if your collection is mostly CD, then an outboard DAC may make sense, such as a modded MSB or modded Perpetua... | |
| EMM Labs on Bad Redbook read this:http://www.audiocircle.com/circles/viewtopic.php?p=67741#67741 | |
| Jitter issues with dacs.... Andy2 - I am referring to a large FIFO buffer at the DAC, not in the transport. If this is in place, then the data can be clocked out of this buffer independent of the speed of the drive, virtually eliminating jitter, assuming the read clock is ve... | |
| Jitter issues with dacs.... Kana813 - no I have not measured the jitter. I would like to, but I need some equipment that I cannot currently afford in order to do this....Eldartford is correct. Solving the jitter problem only requires FIFO buffering at the desination. However... | |
| sound of jitter Onhwy61 - these devices usually reduce jitter, they do not eliminate it.Jitter can sound like high-frequency sibilance or like echoes or halos around the instruments. |