blackstonejd
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| dCS Puccini Clock A very reliable source who has extensive experience with this equipment told me that the Puccini is not quite as good as the separates, even the old separates, and that the Puccini clock makes a dramatic improvement.I just heard an A/B comparison ... | |
| audiophile music servers the latest products, info Actually I take back what I said about the Memory Player. After reading the white paper on Read Until Right (RUR) and the use of sequential memory I am not sure if there is another product on the market that handles the data in the same way. It ma... | |
| audiophile music servers the latest products, info Boulder has a product similar to the Memory Player called the 1021 but it does not store music. The key is playback from solid-state or "flash" memory and DSP/Upsampling in the software domain. The advantage of these types of devices over a Squeez... | |
| Channel Islands Squeezebox Power Supply? Cerrot, what is involved in upgrading the umbilical? Does the Revelation cable just plug in to the power supply and the Squeezebox without any modification or adapters? | |
| why still buy a cd player? In my experience, the DAC is where the magic happens. I used to have a Goldmund Mimesis which was a big heavy "mechanically grounded" CD transport and the Squeezebox's digital output easily unseated it with the dCS Delius/Elgar combo.I think there... | |
| Channel Islands Squeezebox Power Supply? I will probably try it in light of your comments. I will report back when I do.In the meantime if anyone else has any thoughts I'd like to hear them. | |
| What comes after CD`s? Sorry I meant decrease in cost/megabyte, meaning storage is getting cheaper and cheaper. This trend will probably continue indefinitely. At a certain point, to justify the sale of newer, larger capacity players, companies like Apple will discover ... | |
| What comes after CD`s? MP3 will not be as ubiquitous for much longer for the following reasons:1. The concept of "high definition" has greater penetration among consumers thanks to high-definition televisions, video game consoles, blu-ray and the 2009 digital transition... | |
| Channel Islands Squeezebox Power Supply? Cerrot and Ecruz, you guys are both using the digital out into an outboard DAC, correct? | |
| Channel Islands Squeezebox Power Supply? Jig you used in your system with the digital out in a DAC? | |
| Channel Islands Squeezebox Power Supply? This isn't helpful guys. | |
| Materialism or Idealism is hope alive? And Request First, I am not contradicting myself. YOU are making an assumption about upsampling. An upsampler interpolates information from the CD. It is not "coloration" when the end product sounds more like the original master tape.Second, I have extensive ... | |
| Why Transparent Cable? for Wilsons.... options? Actually, you should upgrade all the way to the Transparent Reference for those speakers. Look for a good deal on a used pair. The ultra would be fine to but the Reference is better.I have B&W speakers but I use Reference cables for every conn... | |
| Materialism or Idealism is hope alive? And Request Let me rephrase. It probably is not accurate to say that the source (the recording being reproduced and the format in which it is fixed) is the most important component in the audio chain because a system can only be as good as its weakest link. T... | |
| Hi-End Electronics to drive B&W 804S speakers? Just some general advice:I have the 804 and I use a Bryston 3B-ST to great effect. The 804 is a great speaker, but it can be a little brittle/fatiguing, so you will want to err on the side of warmer/darker/smoother sounding units. They have terrif... |