cerrot
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| Computer output to DAC, which route? USB is pretty pathetic. Firewire does blow it away. For $200 - heck - $150 - just get an ESI Juli@ soundcard. it blows away the usb at a much lower cost. USB sucks - plain and simple. Use it to connect your mouse and printer, not a dac... | |
| What would give the best overall improvement see if you can add the periphery ring & clamp - it was one of the largest upgrades I ever made on my rig. Huge improvement. Have not heard surface noise since. | |
| JPLAY - It aint subtle Thanks, Lew. I actually haven't. The PC is sounding pretty awesome and I think the next step for me in the digital world is to go with something like a Baetis. But thats a bit away, as I would like to upgrade my vinyl rig. | |
| More turntable set up problems any chance that the loading is set incorrectly on the phonostage? | |
| $5k DAC....Will A $500 cd Transport Get It Done? I put a $99 bluray into a Berkeley Dac and is sounded pretty poor. Changed to a Rotel DVD Player (a $1,200 DVDA model from a few years ago) and the sound quality improved dramatically.Upgraded that to an Esoteric X03SE and the sound became amazing... | |
| JPLAY - It aint subtle Lew,I am using JRiver 19 on a custom gateway PC running windows 7. I am using a Juli@ ESI PCI sound card. The soundcard, via apogee spdif cable, goes into an esoteric upsampler (to 192) and reclocked, into an Esoteric K03. I am not using audiophil... | |
| JPLAY - It aint subtle I actually got it working and chucked it. I think JR19 sounds better w/o. | |
| Esoteric versu Oppo 105? I have. This thread is a joke, right? we are comparng a $20,000 premiere player to a $1,000 dvd player?The oppo is uninvoling, unresolving, flat, dry and lifeless - but, its just awesome for the price. | |
| Integrated tube amp has no bass Cayin A50T Ohhh....did you bias the tubes??? | |
| Esoteric versu Oppo 105? the cd on a broken K01 is better than the sacd on the oppo. | |
| Integrated tube amp has no bass Cayin A50T I have that amp into B&W 685's and they have pretty good bass. I would not say they are bass shy at all.Must be those speakers or phase or the wrong ohm taps or something but the amp (yes, low power and speakers not extremely effecient...)has ... | |
| What footer best under cd player I know an old thread - I just slid a silent running audio platform under my esoteric K03 and cannot believe what I hear. I had black backrounds before with nice resolution and deep sound stage but it really made things blacker, quieter, deeper. Pr... | |
| XLR to RCA Adapter Dilemma Rib,You should be able to look at your manual and look at the output via xlr vs RCA and see what the manufacturer says its doing. It is not uncommon to see different output voltages for the different outputs in specs.My old Esoteric X03 cd player ... | |
| What is the missing element? Do you really need a money back guarantee for a $140 sound card? We spend more than that on a fuse. | |
| What is the missing element? Should be easy enough to do since the sound card is only $140.Everyone remembers the sound of the lynx card and thinks that was and is the sound card standard. It isn't for two reasons. First is no one could configure the drivers properly as it wa... |