bar81
Responses from bar81
| wadia 521 vs wadia 27ix One would hope given the price differential. | |
| Are Dust Covers a MUST Concur with Vtvu. Having a dust cover is probably going to make the system sound worse. ime, I tried using Cardas RCA covers and they noticeably imparted a metallic signature to cymbals that was not there when they were removed. The only issue was... | |
| Mark Levinson No.512 CD Player---Opinions I believe it's $15K | |
| What transport is Wadia using in the 581se & 781? No. It's a CD-ROM based transport. | |
| Apple macbook, solidstate H/drive option or not. We weren't referring to external noise. | |
| Shorting plugs.... That's not turning it off if it's a unit with a switching power supply (i.e., most consumer electronics these days); the only way to turn off such units is at the wall or unplugging them. In any case, what was the configuration you used to test on... | |
| Shorting plugs.... It's interesting the lengths you are going to to avoid the question. Your statement was that simply turning off components did not yield the "material" improvements that unplugging them from the preamp does. Again, what do you mean precisely when ... | |
| Apple macbook, solidstate H/drive option or not. While I haven't seen any conclusive evidence either way, the users of SSD appear to indicate that the lack of a moving spindle decreases internal noise which somehow improves the playback despite the presence of a buffer. Whether this is accurate ... | |
| Shorting plugs.... Concur with Chadlinz, it's an impractical "solution" and just because "the improvement is material" *in your system* does not mean that it will be in anyone else's system. Also, when you indicate that you turned off components, what does that mean... | |
| Verity Parsifal or Magico V3 or Wilson Benesch ACT Doesn't seem like a bad idea. If you like them stick with them. | |
| Cerapuc / Cerabase for Wilson Sophia 2 You might want to go with something that's designed just for speakers like audiopoints. | |
| Shorting plugs.... Seems like you got your answer, but I can confirm that covering the inputs and outputs makes a significant difference to the noise floor of my system. I'll have to test the comment about only RCA needing covers as I'm currently using covers for bo... | |
| Mark Levinson No.512 CD Player---Opinions Noticeably better in the midrange. | |
| If I like sound of Ayre Integrated I would Like... I'm not quite sure why you need to look anywhere else. I used to own the AX-7e and it's a fantastic piece. | |
| What solid state dac is similar to Ayre CX-5e? The next product Ayre is producing is a USB dac. There's a lot of info, including the upcoming -R series source on AA. |