bobpaule
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| My experience after lost of 20k$ 1. Basic PC and NAS.2. Data only USB cable.3. Marantz HD-DAC1 $400 when noone knew them yet, with Bluesound Node 2i in, $499.3. Audioquest King Cobra $120.4. Parasound Zamp v.3 second hand $180.5. DYI cables, silver, gold spades.6 ProAc Tablette 5... | |
| Tidal adds hi-res audio streams with 'Tidal Masters' 44.1kHz out Android bottleneck Tidal jailbreak:1. UAPP app.2. xDSD 3. AKG K 702Now secondary MQA unfolding in the xDSD reasults in some tracks doing 350kHz, 24bit, 1500kbs. Sounds like SACD to my ears, unbelievable! | |
| Is there a web site for streaming DSD recordings to include DSD, Double DSD & Quad DSD? No luck here. Tried my wireless 5G and then wired computers, both 200Mbps, one with a HD-DAC1 and the other with xDSD ie native DSD decoders. Tweaked and tweaked, the HD-DAC1 showed DSD but every stream ended 33%-67% into buffering wtih the statem... | |
| Recommended 5.1 processor + amp under 10k Onkyo PR-SC5509 without a doubt, the modular chassis beats the Integra counterpart, also for modern features beats anything else. I use it with a Classe CP-700 on the fronts, the 2-channel balanced Marantz UD9004 feeding straight to the CP700, and... | |
| Newest iPhone Motorola Android man to the bone. Out in the country the range of Motos is unbeatable, when storm knocked out half the towers and some landlines too with flood, iPhone owners were staring at each other on the top floor, while Moto owners had 3 bar... | |
| Pre-amps with seperate power supplies ..... The external PSU on the CP-700 is two PSUs, one for each channel, with a copper shielding plate in the middle, and the DC current should be pretty darn flat, and free of EMI and RFI parasites, although I do not have an oscilloscope to test. Look a... | |
| Need multi-channel that's great on 2 channel Go "hybrid", i have the best of A/V now with the PR-SC5509's great HQV Vida VP (uprezzing those DVDs) and a CP-700 in SSP bypass mode, the stereo balanced A1UDCI (stellar DSD decoder but an inferior BD player, PS3 takes care of that and 3D)directl... | |
| Which adcom sounds best? I too had an Adcom, the GFA-7605 for about 1 month, "sterile and brittle" is spot on for an oversimplified description. IMHO they belong in distribution systems powering Bose and Cerwin-Wega speakers, nuf said.On the other hand I read some laudato... | |
| Any owners of the Classe CP-800 here ? You bet, the separate balanced topology preferrably monomoblock amps for stereo are the next logical purchase for me too, the biamping is holding me back (4xmonos=muchisimo dinero). | |
| Any owners of the Classe CP-800 here ? I do have thoughts, although I ended up getting the Canadian made CP-700 instead. Separate fully differentially balanced even in the PSU, all digital functions reduced to what is needed for volume control, such should a true preamp be. The rest is... | |
| Classe preamps - CP-700 vs Classe CP-800? So I finally got my paws on a CP-700, integrated it with SSP Bypass biamping the fronts. Simply put, separate stereo XLR interconns from the PR-SC5509 (disabled the biwiring touted as "biamping" by Onkyo) and DVD-A1UDCI player, which, like the CP-... | |
| Amp repair...What to expect. I like the DYI spirit in several of the posts.Just last month I got tired of dropouts on my two Sherbourn 5/1500A monoblock construction amps, chatted with a friendly tech, ordered $2.50 relays, and using my Xtronic solder gun and air tool worksta... | |
| Classe preamps - CP-700 vs Classe CP-800? Correction, i will not use XLR Y splitters, but rather single XLRs out of the processor with a line level bypass on the CP-700 and biamped XLRs out of it, much safer option! | |
| Classe preamps - CP-700 vs Classe CP-800? I was in a similar situation until today, I needed something more than the PR-SC5509 to do justice to the MoFi and other stereo SACDs that my A1UDCI processes on a fully balanced stereo pathway. I needed a solid state fully balanced preamp with bi... | |
| Classe preamps - CP-700 vs Classe CP-800? This guy direct compared them, and preferred the CP-700:http://www.psaudio.com/vanilla/discussion/4330/using-a-preamp-or-straight-into-a-poweramp.-what-are-the-preferable-specs |