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| CDP's being dumped for hard drive driven units? I sold my Audio Research CD3MkII and replaced it with Apple Mac Mini + 1tb HD, via USB into Bel Canto DAC3. Sure the CD3MkII was one awesome CD player and I loved it.But...no regrets. So far so very good. | |
| G'N'R Chinese Democracy LP so sound quality aside, how's the music? | |
| Sax 101... Excellent write up!I would add Michael Brecker to the list of the great tenor sax players. Also, if you are going to check out music recorded by ECM, it is almost its own movement of jazz for the most part. They have a different idea/approach and ... | |
| Upgrade Audio Research CD3 Mk11 I had this player. It is excellent. I would not mess with it. Either get somethig else, like the CD7, or get an external DAC but you will need to spend a lot to get an upgrade from CD3MkII.BTW, if you are not running it via XLR outputs, you are no... | |
| Dynaudio C2 with Plinius 9200 separates usually perform better than integrated amps.this is where the upgrade in sonics would come from, by switching to separates. but in case of speakers that like power, the overall improvement would be questionable at best, since you will be... | |
| ICs with great natural sounding highs? If you have a chanced to try Purist Audio 20th Anniversary Aqueous XLRs, I think you would like these a lot. They sound excellent. I had Cardas Golden Reference, AZ Silver Ref II and Matrix Ref II. PAD Aqueous XLR is a better interconnect. Much mo... | |
| B & W Naut. 804S-Appropriate power source??? Pass Labs works very good with B&Ws. I was driving my N803s with the X250.5 and loved it. You do need good amplifier with B&Ws and also a good speaker cable. | |
| New McIntosh system problem... need advice more bass can make treble appear softer. give it time to adjust to the new sound and if you don't adjust to it, move on to something else. I am not sure upgrading to 703 or 804 will solve the issue completely. If you won't adapt to new sound, Mcin... | |
| 2 Acoustic Zen Silver Reference II IC's too much? that coloration is exactly what I was talking about when I said the sound was artificial. I'd stay away from an all Silver Ref II config. Mix and match and you will prob get better results. | |
| Dynaudio C2 with Plinius 9200 I think Plinius 9200 will drive these speakers purely from power perspective. Not optimally, but it will. I would not worry about that from the get-go. But in a long run, you should know that Dynaudio speakers like power. Does Plinius mate well wi... | |
| 2 Acoustic Zen Silver Reference II IC's too much? Anton, what speakers do you have? | |
| 2 Acoustic Zen Silver Reference II IC's too much? It will be too much based on my experience. I had MatrixII/SilverII, MatrixII/Matrix II, SilverII/Silver II and prefered MatrixII/SilverII combo.brightness was not even an issue when using 2 pairs of Silver II. well, it was but not the main issue.... | |
| Why Mac Mini Over Slim Systems Products? Or just get another DAC. MHDT Havana has USB input. | |
| Why Mac Mini Over Slim Systems Products? run Mac Mini via USB cable into your DAC. I am doing just that and the sound is very nice. As a matter of fact it's very smooth and not harsh at all. I am not missing a conventional transport. I rip all the music I care about in AIFF and stuff I a... | |
| Time to change. But to what? Mmakshak, thanks but unfortunately that is not an option for me. However, with the Dyns I get pretty good resolution at low levels now. Better than what I had with the B&Ws. |