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| Marantz SR7005 OR Pioneer ELite SC-35 Really not sure unless you can go 2500, then I would say go with the nad t775. It is much better than the nad you had. I would just keep away from class d receivers and the consumer stuff. Maybe a rotel? I had rotel before the pioneer elite. There... | |
| CD Player break in period They do take a long time to break in but once they do... Thanks to Guido, who figured out that the power supply on the large esoteric were good enough that they didn't need power cables with digital filtering, I chucked a python vx cable for a reg... | |
| Marantz SR7005 OR Pioneer ELite SC-35 I don't think I would get either. Don't like Class D and Marantz in that price range is consumer grade and easilly bested. I do think you need to increase your budget a little but the increase in actual performance that you will get will easilly b... | |
| Best preamp for 2k-3k I agree with both the Calypso (there was one here recently and may still be) and the Shindo (you make no mentioned of balanced/single ended or tape loop requirements). I would absolutely add the Supratek Chardonney. | |
| Differences Between Esoteric SACD Players I have the X03se and it's the way to go. You see a few here for +\- 4,000. | |
| cd recorder options I absolutely love my Alesis Masterlink. It is an incredible tool and the quality of recordings are supurb. I recorded some vinyl the other ay and just played the recordings back on my music server and I just can't believe how good it sounded. Very... | |
| Vinyl cleanliness Almost all of the new albums I buy (acoustic sounds reissues, etc) have been absolutely dead quiet. The old stuff that I originally bought and took care of (over 40 years) - no ticks and pops (or very few) but some surface noise. Others given to m... | |
| Monarchy Audio DIP/Upsampler Combo Thanks, Ozzy. I have the CI Power supply though may consider the Boulder if I send it in for the mod. I really don't want to be without the unit as I enjoy it so much. I did pull the plug on the 192k upsampler/clock, though. (Esoteric G25U). I fig... | |
| Monarchy Audio DIP/Upsampler Combo Ozzy, assume you had the digital mod done? How long did it take? | |
| Monarchy Audio DIP/Upsampler Combo Thinking of upgrading my Monarchy Combo to the Esoteric G25U to get a 192k signal into the Berkeley Alpha DAC. Anyone have any thoughts? Worth $1,100? | |
| Considering analog...but nervous Racquel, you are so spot on with your posts, it's scary. Scary good. Thanks for being here. | |
| Best Hobby related purchase of 2010 Mine was a vpi periphery ring. Hello darkness, my old friend. | |
| Should I use pre-amp I run both my digital sources (Berkeley DAC and Esoteric X03SE) directly into my amps (after bypasing the preamp over a year ago) and have NEVER looked back. The improvement was staggering. I cannot possibly see how adding a preamp and cables betw... | |
| Firewire to s/pdif MAudio -$200. Works and sounds great. | |
| Is 11' distance from projector screen too close? Don't get an LG. Pretty bad all around. |