charles1dad
Responses from charles1dad
| Need service for Metrum DAC. Company seems defunct. Cees lhas left Metrum? It seemed to me when I once owned one of their DACs he was the heart and soul of that company. Surprising. Charles | |
| Cube Audio Nenuphar Single Driver Speaker (10 inch) TQWT Enclosure "great looking stereo! love the finish" Agree! Dark, rich and very elegant and matches well with the color of the cone. Really nice high gloss finish.Charles | |
| DAC Dilemma @pascon,Reading your comments lead me to conclude that you are going to be fine moving forward. You've reached the crossroads of realization. You have to choose audio equipment based on what I believe is the most important criteria, what do "you... | |
| DAC Dilemma @pascon, The Benchmark DAC has its admirers as well who find it awesome and believe that it is accurate, neutral and true to the recording source. They would counter that the ARC DAC 7 and Audionote DACs are simply pleasingly colored. So two diff... | |
| DAC Dilemma @david_ten, "Agree with the other members who advise against the Benchmark (for your specific case / situation).Former ARC DAC7 owner. It’s very good; a standout when it was released and offered"Yep, Agree!! And +1 @jond and @ghdprentice , wise co... | |
| Cube Audio Nenuphar Single Driver Speaker (10 inch) TQWT Enclosure @dspringham, "Honestly, I though the VR L2iSE did sound just fine with it’s built-in single device JFET output stage but the Zen just adds that last bit of air, righteous tone and life-breathing liveliness that takes favourite tunes a higher plane... | |
| 16 bit vs 24 bit vs 35 bit vs 36 bit vs 64 bit DAC sampling "So, most of the markedly improved sound that I hear is from the improved transport stability, and more precise laser reading, and not from the 35 bit samplin"I would say a large portion of the sound quality improvement could most definitely be at... | |
| Cube Audio Nenuphar Single Driver Speaker (10 inch) TQWT Enclosure @david_ten,"This despite Nenuphar specs, which suggest otherwise" Good point but only if one relies exclusively on specs and numbers on printed paper and ignore the actual words uttered by Grzegorz Rulka. He will with patience and conviction expl... | |
| A phenomenal new CD transport-Pro-Ject CD Box RS2 transport "That little Project clamp sure looks like it could use a bigger brother."It's my understanding that the small size of the clamping disc, chosen alloy metal and weight were well thought out and very specific to compliment the actual CD spinning m... | |
| Devore 0/96 - Integrated AMP help @davehg, "I’m usually skeptical of custom builds but I compared 3 of his builds to my Leben and was shocked by the performance. It was interesting to compare identical amps where the transformer and caps were different - really huge differences. ... | |
| Upgrade my CD player or futile effort? @baylinor, Congratulations on your very successful move to improve your digital front end. It would have been easy to default to a snobbish mindset and assume that digital can not compete with your analogue front end. Now you can easily enjoy musi... | |
| Devore 0/96 - Integrated AMP help "@kw6 You’d be shocked how well the Luxman MQ-88uC pairs with O/96’s. And the MQ-300 pairing is stellar - even more so."I wonder if @kw6 was referring to the Luxman solid state amplifiers specifically. It’s difficult to imagine why their tube ampl... | |
| Speaker impedance patterns - how to read them? @martinguitars, You asked a very reasonable question and have received some excellent and thoughtful replies (@audiokineisis as one fine example). Don't become discouraged and just ignore the immature and non useful comments. I have no doubt that... | |
| Tube Amplifier Sound Characteristics @knotscott,Agree,Listeners at some point in the decision making process choose the type of distortion characteristic they find the least objectionable. There’s no escaping some degree of distortion from electronic audio devices. High odd order har... | |
| Devore 0/96 - Integrated AMP help @davehg, I was not aware that the Bottlehead components offered that level of optional upgraded parts. I’m sure they sound as exceptional as you describe. I definitely agree with you in regard to the importance of high quality output transformers... |