bill_k
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| Hegel Amplifiers Talk2me, I believe that you may live to regret moving on from the Hegel. I've heard and owned a lot of amps over the years and the Hegel H20 is one of the best I've ever experienced. It has many of the virtues of low power pure class A amps, but w... | |
| Phono Cable "breakout" Any RCA interconnect can be used for phono, but since the cable is handling a much lower level signal than with line level sources some additional criteria should be considered. Suitable interconnects should generally be well shielded designs, sin... | |
| Phono Cable "breakout" If I understand the issue correctly with your setup, since the VPI tonearm has RCA jacks you can resolve it by using most standard RCA interconnects which are generally two separate cables. This would eliminate any problem with the wide spacing of... | |
| Perfect Wave DAC and Bridge The PerfectWave DAC itself does not contain the Digital Lens circuit which buffers the I2S digital data. I2S also transmits all of the clock signals independently from the data stream. You currently only get the benefits of the Digital Lens circui... | |
| Perfect Wave DAC and Bridge Desalvo55 - You might want to check out DVD Audio Extractor which allows you to extract high res digital audio from DVDs and DVD-A discs. It extracts the digital audio into WAV files, and even has a fully functional 30 day free trial. Sorry I can'... | |
| Surface Noise - another question If the noise is from the phono stage then it would be audible with the volume up even when the stylus is not on an LP, so that should be easy to determine. If it's actually coming from the stylus/LP interface, then I've found that the use of Styla... | |
| Electrocomp. vs. Hegel -The battle of Norway I would like to add my experience to the other users above in praising the exceptional sonics of the Hegel power amps. I recently replaced Cary Audio CAD-500MB mono amps with the Hegel H20. I'm driving Piega C-10 Ltd. speakers which utilize a coax... | |
| Whest ps.30r Not sure where you're located, but there's a pretty large price difference between the DT and the Ref. In the US the DT now retails for $5K, while the Ref is at $20K. The new DT SE comes in between at $8.5K and is supposed to offer some of the Ref... | |
| PS Perfect Wave Trans/DAC versus Meridian 808.2 The trade in program gives you the original retail value of the DAC or CD player/transport that you trade in, up to a maximum value of $1,000 per piece, towards the retail price of the PWT or PWD. It therefore allows you to purchase each piece tha... | |
| Anybody own any direct-to-disc LP's? There were several jazz D2D titles released back in the mid to late 70's - one that is truly exceptional is "The Three" which featured Joe Sample, Ray Brown and Shelly Manne on the East Wind label. It was also later released on LP from the master ... | |
| PS Audio PWT / PWD digital connection The HDMI cable used definitely affects the character of the sound. Some users that find the PS Audio HDMI cable too forward in perspective (in a particular system like Mrtennis) might want to try the Harmonic Technology Magic Audio Only HDMI cable... | |
| PS Audio PWT / PWD digital connection The coaxial digital connection on the Perfect Waves is via RCA, and BNC is not an option. However if you audition or purchase the pair it is recommended that you evaluate the provided I2S connection using an HDMI cable. It uses independent conduct... | |
| Pass XA60.5's or Cary CAD 500 MB for Maggie 1.7? Honest1 - just click on one of the links next to the cover image at the top of the page to download either the standard or high resolution versions. The standard version is fine to read the review, while the high res version provides much better i... | |
| PS Audio Perfect Wave Dac output level According to the manufacturer in their forums, with the volume level set to '100' (the maximum) the unbalanced output voltage is 2.8v and it doubles to 5.6v when you utilize the balanced output. | |
| Spacers for Rega P3 Rega recently introduced an adjustable spacer, but it's only for their 3 point mount tonearms. The current P3 has such an arm, but some older models use a single large nut to secure the arm and this spacer will not work with them. The adjustable s... |