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| Sennheiser HD 650's thin sounding? I have the 650's with antique sound lab otl headphone amp and card as cable and they sound absolutely fantastic. | |
| Are Headphone amps worth the expense? I do say tape out in my post. If you use the line out, make sure you don't drive the preamplifier volume up to high. The headphone amp would distort too high a signal. It should be an unamplifiedoutput. A good quality headphone amp with god headph... | |
| dCS Puccini CD transport noise Correct. They are very quiet and not one of those units where the noise is a known issue. Great unit-you should be able to enjoy a quiet one. Hope you didn't get yours from sound by singer. | |
| Are Headphone amps worth the expense? Good headphone amps are great if you do alot of headphone listening with a good set of phones. Headphone amps (lots of tubed models available, as well as solid state) are hooked up directly to the source component (cd player, dac, fm tuner, phono ... | |
| experience with Bryston BDA-1 ? Make sure you are bypassing windows kernal. go download asio4all. what other gear do you have and what did the new dac replace? I haven't heard the Bryston but I have read a few comments on line that did report what you are saying about the dacs s... | |
| Getting Into PC Audio and Need Help There are more expensive by RME, etc but that have a ton of inputs, which I don't need. To me, a firewire to s/pdif solution is the only one. You can also check out Focusrite. You already have an incredible dac so all the interface is doing is tak... | |
| Getting Into PC Audio and Need Help Roor,I use a firewire to spdif converter by M-Audio called the Firewire Solo. I think it was $200 and probably less on sale. It sounds great. I would use Firewire over usb to covert to s/pdif. | |
| Dac recommendations for computer audio I would use a monarchy dip to convert the toslink to aes/ebu and go for the Berkeley DAC. I'm sitting here listening to one and it definitely does all you are asking. | |
| Opinions on vintage Dual turntables What is your budget? I'm a long time Dual fan but I upgraded from a CS5000 to a Rega P3 (years ago) and the P3 really bested the Dual very easilly. There may be some nice competition in the price range you are considering. How many hrs on your car... | |
| Getting Into PC Audio and Need Help I didn't think the iLink was a firewire input. I think only for connectiing to other Esoteric gear via iLink. | |
| Getting Into PC Audio and Need Help The DAC has toslink as well as spdif and balanced inputs. If the dell has toslink out, try it with a good cable. If not, you need to make a decision. Go with a Lynx internal PCI card to feed dac a balanced input or go outboard route and get a PC i... | |
| usb dac for hi-end system No. Better but still, no. USB is still a very poor interface. All pro recording studios use firewire - must be for a reason, no? (everything we try to reproduce onour rigs was doe with firewire, not usb). Just look at the technology and history of... | |
| Transport rips to hard drive? When I decided to rip my music, I was concerned with the PC transport in my rig. I decided to go with an outbiard Lacie firewire CD burner, which is only used for ripping. I don't use the PC's drive to rip at all. My FLAC files sound very god and ... | |
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| usb dac for hi-end system Raise the flag all you wish. I'm not entering another debate on usb vs firewire. Firewire is easilly superior. It is well documented. I have been studying this for years. USB is for connecting peripherials, ie mouse, printers, keyboards. (Think IR... |