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| bel canto dac 3 cd 2 owners Turnaround time for my upgrade was a couple of weeks, but I would expect that to vary with their number of commitments at any given time. I had it powered up and running for about a week before any critical listening was done so I can't really com... | |
| bel canto dac 3 cd 2 owners If I had to find one word to best describe the differences that the Mk.II upgrade of the BC DAC3.5VB has made in my system's overall performance it would have to be "stunning".Well engineered recordings now exhibit an effortless realism that I fin... | |
| bel canto dac 3 cd 2 owners The price of the Ref DAC Control System was raised accordingly once they began to package the VB Ref cable with it, I did not mean to imply otherwise and apologize for any confusion. I expect to post my impressions of the Mk. II upgrade later today. | |
| bel canto dac 3 cd 2 owners Glad to help, Scott. I do have the VB Ref cable and was very surprised at the significant improvement it made over the standard cable. It certainly does not sacrifice musicality, but just makes an across the board improvement. I now see that BC in... | |
| bel canto dac 3 cd 2 owners The Mk.II upgrade of the BC DAC3.5VB is $500 from any authorized dealer in the US, and is performed at the factory in MN. | |
| Zodiac Gold w/Volticus vs Bel Canto w/VBS-1 The Mk II upgrade for the BC DAC3.5VB is available through dealers, but it is factory installed and has a retail price of $500. Quoting a description of the upgrade from the announcement at CES: "The DAC 3.5VB MK II upgrade delivers an improved an... | |
| bel canto dac 3 cd 2 owners Chrissain - you're a step ahead of me as my DAC3.5 VBS is currently at BC getting the Mk II upgrade. I would greatly appreciate your more detailed thoughts on the type of improvements that the upgrade makes and how significant they are to the DAC'... | |
| warm digital cable Hakuchosan, your point at first glance seems logical since computer cables send ones and zeroes successfully without error, but with digital audio signals unfortunately things are not that simple...For a DAC to properly recreate an analog waveform... | |
| Pressing Issues I have a question for those stating that this is only caused by tape magnetization issues. Why then is pre-echo still audible on some direct-to-disc albums that were recorded directly to the vinyl disc master without the use of any tape medium? | |
| Pressing Issues It's often called pre-echo or print through. It may be caused by the cutting stylus slightly deforming the adjacent groove when the record is being cut, or some say by magnetism of the master tape affecting other segments of the tape when wound an... | |
| Cartridge around $2K help. I would suggest that you give some serious consideration to the Ortofon Cadenza Bronze. It currently lists for $1999 US, and I have found it to be an outstanding performer that is competitive even against some much more expensive choices.A reviewe... | |
| Can you play DVD-A discs on a MacBook Pro? Rebbi, while I'm not a Mac user I have used DVDAE to perform the same process on a PC and the results are excellent. I don't believe that there is any loss of fidelity in that the software simply extracts the digital data and outputs it in the sel... | |
| Can you play DVD-A discs on a MacBook Pro? While this won't allow you to play DVD-A discs directly on a Mac, you could use software like DVD Audio Extractor which is available for the Mac OS. It extracts the audio tracks to WAV files which can then be played on a Mac. Hope that this helps! | |
| Berkeley Alpha vs Weiss 202 vs Ayre QB9 vs ? Soix - I haven't received that issue yet from my subscription, so if you could provide a basic overview of the comparison that you mentioned it would be most appreciated. TIA! | |
| Music DVD burning question Since you found that the burned DVD plays on the PS Audio PWT, the disc is in the format of a data DVD. The PWT will not play standard DVD or DVD-A formatted discs, only WAV files burned as a data DVD in the UDF format. Since the PWT indicates the... |