dan2112
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| BEST Digital Cable Lots of fine opinions here. I would also suggest you contact the Cable Co and ask them. http://www.fatwyre.com/ or call them at 800 328-9973 I am currently auditioning some Balanced digital cables from them and they are a great resource. | |
| Upsampling and Stereophile Garfish, Sorry – I hope I didn't come across the wrong way. I agree it's a very confusing topic. I think that maybe the manufactures kinda got caught off guard by the whole upsampling thing. Stereophile to their credit reported what they heard abo... | |
| Upsampling and Stereophile As an owner of the dCS Purcell and Delius I am both spoiled and biased. Robert Stuart's (Meridian) letter in the same issue is also very interesting reading. Even if we agree that upsamplers and oversampling are the "same" thing - it's really a mu... | |
| Golden Tube: need Schematic & Parts.Help Well seeing as Golden Tube has disappeared from the face of the earth you might want to try the "unofficial" golden tube mailing list at http://golden_tube.listbot.com Maybe someone that list could point you at a supplier. Also there is the possib... | |
| amp for B &W 801 While I have not heard it, some people on this site say the Wolcott Presence Monblocks can handle a speaker load like the 801. When I get around to auditioning amps for my 802N the Wolcott is on the list as a tube candidate. - Cheers, Dan. | |
| DIY Power Cable Advise Needed Suffice to say the cable is shielded and braided. I was just worried about crimping vs soldering in this application. Without going into details about the cable I was just wondering if somebody else has come across a good crimping technology for t... | |
| Voltage Regulators A voltage Regulator is just what is says it is. It maintains a constant voltage given a range of input voltages. In this case it specifies 80-130 VAC. The question becomes - what is this solving for your system? I am not sure about the claim on th... | |
| CAL Audio Alpha DAC Fpeel, That's what I thougt. I own a Delta and used to own a Alpha until I sold it here in favor of a dCS Delius. The CAL Delta/Alpha combo is a classic. Best of luck, Dan | |
| GOlden Tube Problems Are you sure you biased the tubes correctly. I think they should be set to 640 mV. I have 6L6 in my Golden Tube and I actually had to add a resistor in the bias circuit to get the tubes to bias correctly. But my SE40's are an older model, so this ... | |
| Why lots of B&W Nautilus for sale used? Subaruguru have you read the review in Audio Review Magazine (Feb '99). They actually measured the speakers with a TEF20 and spent time using them and positioning them correctly in the room and they raved about N802. I read the Sensible Sound Revi... | |
| CD Transport to DAC Timing/Jitter If my memory serves me right one of the Stereophile Test Disks (I think it's #2) has an example of what jitter sounds like. But Redkiwi is correct. To me it sounds like the digital glare of the first CD players. Cheers, Dan | |
| Why lots of B&W Nautilus for sale used? I have a pair of N802 about 8.5' apart and they integrate beautifully. I can't say enough positive things about them. | |
| CAL Audio Alpha DAC Fpeel, Correct me if I am wrong, but the Delta is still only putting out a 44.1 KHz 16bit signal. The upgrade to the Alpha I don't think has "upsampling" to 24/96. So the Alpha convert the 44.1/16 signal only. Now there might be the question of so... | |
| Proac and Golden Tube SE-40 Tee557, Can't speak about the GT/Proac combo but I have two SE40 (not SE) as monoblocks attached to a pair of 802N. I have modified my SE40's to accept the Svetlana 6L6GC from the tubestore (3 Sets of Matched Quads). Also I tracked down 4 vintage ... | |
| Top Ten Speaker Cables of all time?... Snook, Don’t know if you were kidding or not, but The Cable Co has Purist Cables. I have a couple of Digital cables coming my way from them. If you are willing to pay 5% of the retail price (non-refundable, but applicable toward a future purchase)... |