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| Power Conditioning experience... Drubin - The local stereo shop, now closed, carried Furmsan and I tried to purchase theirs in an auction but it went higher than I wanted. After that I found Vic, mentioned above, and he gave it very high praise.Ontjesr - Sorry I wasn't clear, I h... | |
| why still buy a cd player? A high-end cdp can easily beat out any music server.That is a bold statement. What do you classify as a "high-end cdp"? | |
| why still buy a cd player? Plus, as Mr. Schroeder states, whether you can actually surpass the sound quality of a high quality CDP is debatable. Everything in this hobby is debateable, and is.The goal may not be to "surpass the sound quality", as you say, but rather for con... | |
| Sansui TU-9900 vrs Magnum Dynalab MD-90T My first thought is, will you have any sonic improvement going to the 90T. I used a TU717 for a short time and it performed very well and if the 9900 you were to pick up was working properly I suspect it would perform very well. Still, I question ... | |
| why still buy a cd player? It depends on the DAC being used. If the DAC reclocks the signal, it is my understanding that there will not be huge, if any, difference in the source (transport). I certainly do not have a lot of experience in this, but I do not agree with Dougla... | |
| How different between B&W 804s & B&W 805s???? Funny (or sad) Musicnoise that as long as I have been at this I suck at describing differences. Anyway, thanks for the kind words. I have owned the N803's, Signature 805's and the 802D's, in that order; I had positive experiences with all but the ... | |
| How different between B&W 804s & B&W 805s???? Musicnoise, interesting stuff. Did you get a chance to hear the McIntosh MA6600 at all? | |
| Lossless files contain errors When ripping the CDs to lossless, is there an option to "Use Sound Check"? Yes, and as you suggest, it is detrimental to the sound. As far as I know, it is available no matter was format you rip to, in iTunes. | |
| wadia ipod dock-- anyone find faults? Dave, either I am confused or you are, maybe both! :)But (to me) the sound card has nothing to do with ripping CD's, it is just for sound playback on a PC; you can rip all you want without a sound card.Furthermore, as I already stated as about as ... | |
| wadia ipod dock-- anyone find faults? Chrissain, I am not sure if your exaggeration comment was meant for you or others, mainly Dave and I. I have no reason to exaggerate, I had kept my CDP on hand until I fully compared everything; if the Wadia combo wouldn't have performed well I wo... | |
| wadia ipod dock-- anyone find faults? Take a few minutes and record some wav files onto your ipod. Do an A / B / A comparison between them and your lossless and let us know if you get the same results that I did. I did do this Kmelancon. When I first recieved my iPod, I read many comm... | |
| Wilson Audio MAXX series III However I did't feel it was musically satisfying. Maybe it should be mated with tube amps?Or maybe a myriad of other possibilities. | |
| wadia ipod dock-- anyone find faults? Kmelancon, I probably sound like a broken record on these posts, but it is my opionion, and I am not alone, that if you are hearing a difference where you prefer your CD over your copied file, it has something to do with the gear itself, not the f... | |
| Wadia 170i and Benchmark Dac1 - anyone try it? Fascinating since the Wadia is playing the digital copy of the CD.This is exactly the thinking/mentality I was alluding to above. | |
| Wadia 170i and Benchmark Dac1 - anyone try it? I believe there is a lot of misinformation and wrong thinking on digital, me included, as I am certainly no expert.An observation of mine is that I think many of us have an analog mentality of copies when thinking of digital. To clarify, think of ... |