bar81
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| Acoustic Revive RCC-24.....any experience with Can't say enough good things. More than worth the money for a digital front end. | |
| tv only does 720p why Blue ray? Lossless sound by itself should be enough to convince you. | |
| Utopia Skala / Alto speakers anyone hear them both It's Scala Utopia fyi. I'm interested as well although I'll be listening for myself at some point. | |
| Ear Protection My comments earlier were unclear. It is not the earbuds themselves but the damage that can happen when the earbuds are used by most people (people have a tendency to raise the volume to drown out environmental sounds and the nature of earbuds acce... | |
| Meridian 808.2 vs Dcs Puccini with clock vs. Zande Meridian 808.2 is a very good player; low level detail retrieval is excellent and the ability to drive amplifiers direct is implemented very well but treble ime was extremely bright and the remote was garbage (although it worked fine, every time i... | |
| Ear Protection If you want to preserve your hearing the first thing you should do is not use earbuds (e.g., ipod, etc.). You test hearing loss by going to a specialist and testing your hearing; it's as simple as that. | |
| Are There Any Good, High Power Solid State Amps? One of the items you may want to consider removing is the MIT power conditioner as ime with the newer Z-Stabilizer III HG, it provided some improvements but took away more than it gave. Further, since you're at $10K already you may want to conside... | |
| Digital inputs - Esoteric Looks like your wish has come true. The upcoming Esoteric SA-50 CDP will include digital inputs and function as both a DAC and it also has a digital volume attenuator so that it can connect directly to amps (a-la Wadia). It's a lower end piece wit... | |
| Advice on stacking equipment That's also an excellent point; generally, stacking electronics on top of each other can result in increased electronic interference between the units vis-a-vis each other which has the potential to degrade system performance. | |
| dCS Puccini Clock If you do get the Oracle BNC, see if they can get you the old one without the useless switch on it as it's cheaper and better performing. | |
| Which NORDOST Cables? Concur, it's a strange question. Why is the OP fixated on Nordost? What's the system, budget, etc.? | |
| Playback designs followup? Precisely what I was thinking. How many people have a PD and it would take some minimum sales number before any modders would likely spend the time to create any particular mods for the unit. btw, Jonathan, nice of you to continue "forgetting" to ... | |
| Advice on stacking equipment Be careful as besides the isolation aspects, you're also putting a weight on top of a piece of equipment which often has as obvious audible effect (which may improve or deteriorate your system's performance). | |
| Von Schweikert VR-5 vs Revel Salon2 Precisely, the dealer ads on these boards masquerading as informed opinions are *always* in poor taste, regardless of disclosure. | |
| Playback designs followup? PD defense force assemble! |