chayro
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| What equipment should I invest in next? You have a very nice system that seems well-suited to your musical goals, which is more than I can say for many I've seen. If you're looking for suggestions on how to bring out more of what you have, I have had success placing Symposium Svelte Sh... | |
| Transport for Benchmark / Peter Daniels NOS DAC I forgot, Pro-ject makes a couple of compact ones as well. Personally, I would buy a product with US distribution. It's a lot easier to ship back to Audio Advisor than it is to China. | |
| Transport for Benchmark / Peter Daniels NOS DAC If size is a priority, I think the NuPrime is compact and under a grand. I've never heard one. I and a lot of people here own and like the CXC. Never heard a bad word about it. | |
| Soundstring Cable Technologies™ I still have one of their digital power cables. Looks just like a white computer cable, but I use it on my transport. Seems to work well. | |
| Looking for a DAC under 2k I really like my Heed Abacus. There is absolutely nothing about it that bothers me. Sounds like faint praise, but it means I can listen to it for hours. Just sounds good. | |
| Universal disc players as CD players. In my experience, dedicated CD players have superior sound with CDs than multi-format players. I've owned the Oppo 205, the Esoteric X05 and some others, but I have never liked the sound of CDs as much as I liked the sound of the Naim players or ... | |
| Toslink cable that isn't prone to jitter, possible? I don’t think that’s jitter. Sounds like a dirty or worn laser lens or a faulty cable or connection. Easiest way to tell - disconnect the dac and see if this happens when you use the CD player alone. If it’s the laser, it will do the same thing. I... | |
| Toslink cable that isn't prone to jitter, possible? I'm not 100% sure of this, but I don't think you can hear jitter per-se. You may hear a diminution in sound quality due to excessive jitter, but I have a feeling you are hearing something else and calling it jitter. Can you describe the sound? | |
| Power regenerator vs conditioner @craig - I agree with you in that you would think regenerated "perfect" AC would be the better choice, yet so many audiophiles seem to go with the passive conditioners and I'm not sure why. I myself have an Audience conditioner, which I like very... | |
| Are warm or colored speakers disrespectful of musicians/producer/engineers? As someone who spent many years working in recording studios, I can tell you that, in my experience at least, the final mixes of most music are a series of compromises made by the engineers to account for the many different acoustic environments t... | |
| What is the most analytical sounding amplifier that you have heard? I think the term "analytical" when used by audiophiles is generally a negative term used to describe any part of the audio chain lacking in body or warmth. In the context of this thread, I think "accurate" would be the better term. Then again, i... | |
| Favorite Platform for Linn LP12 Not much love for Linn around here. When I had my Linn, I found it was amazingly sensitive to the platform it sat on. I was using a Target wallshelf and the installer was amazed at the improvement in sound using a Neuance platform as opposed to ... | |
| Coupling/Decoupling Electronics I agree with the above posters about draining vibrations and all, but always keep in mind that ultimately you may prefer the sound of the component sitting on it's own feet. In some cases, putting footers or platforms under the component may hard... | |
| Corpse Cable - Opinions Please Boy - everybody is Henny Youngman. | |
| Naim CD5 XS player vs 5si player First, I would not downsize from the CDS3 as I'm sure you would be disappointed with virtually anything on the market compared to what you have. That said, I auditioned the original CD5s and ended up with the 5x, which are substantially similar t... |