davide256
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| USB reclocker pecking order? thanks for the responses. I've decided to wait a while to see if HRT chooses to make a BNC/RCA digital out model using the fairly good digital circuitry in their existing Music streamer. | |
| How important is the tonearm? the basic yardstick for successful purchase is listening fatigue. In order of importance1) turntable2) tonearm3) cartridgehowever cartridges like speakers illicit love/hate/ho-hum responses. And unlike tonearms stylii can be destroyed in a blink o... | |
| How important is the tonearm? I note also dialogue about whether to spend more money on tonearm or cartridge. note this metaphor... the arm is the chassis of the automobile, the cartridge is the engine. Its more fun to have a cheap chassis with a high powered engine than to ha... | |
| How important is the tonearm? Lewm, i was in audio at the hey day of vinyl and my college education was physics. The assertion is fact based from comparison in the early 80's with reference systems in the $20K range, trying various TT solutions at the time, Rega, Denon, Sota a... | |
| Most Beneficial Cable Upgrade Need to carry that thought a little further. A dedicated line doesn't provide that much additional isolation if on the same phase circuit as all other circuits in the house... all of those circuits are connected in parallel at the breaker junction... | |
| How important is the tonearm? I worked a number of years ago in a speciality business where all we sold were phono cartridges and tone arms. There are some basic principles1)matching a tone arm and cartridge is like matching a car and a shock aborber... what you want is for th... | |
| Most Beneficial Cable Upgrade I do agree that the standard electrical outlets in most homes should be replaced; weak grip, thin contact material, cost the builder maybe $1 per duplex plug. Changing them to a higher quality plug is worthwhile and relatively easy if you are know... | |
| Most Beneficial Cable Upgrade I would volunteer the following principles(a) all engineering is a compromise ( I can do this for $10K but with $20K more I could reduce distortion another 0.001%)(b) specs only measure the state of our knowledge, not what we are capable of hearin... | |
| Best Windows based player for output to USB Dac Bob, I have both Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows 7 Home Premium and have tested both with 64 bit. I much prefer Windows 7 for transparency. I also use both Foobar2000 and J River with kernel streaming. With an untweaked machine I found Foobar20... | |
| Halide Bridge vs hiFace Evo vs Sonicweld 192 sakahara, I'm not a MAC guy but I'd like to share my experience with you in building a PC music server. Over the last 4 months I've played around with multiple hardware configurations and a few basic rules have emerged1) processing power is king2)... | |
| USB reclocker pecking order? 48khz is the upper limit of the DAC I have. Will eventually replace it with a 192khz DAC for PC audio but I don't want a DAC choice limited by its USB capabilities, when a reclocker could widen my options. Plus SACD can't be digitally output to a ... | |
| Magnum Dynalab 308 drive Magnepan 1.7 or 3.6? I drive MG 1.7s with a Musical Concepts modded Hafler DH-200 in a room thats about 25x 24... 100 watts per channel into 8 ohms. About the only thing that taxes that amount of power so far is the Telarc SACD of the 1812 overture with cannons. | |
| Gremlins Emerge with Switch to Windows 7 since this is a laptop its likely that you are only willing to go so far, i.e. you have to strike a compromise between a dedicated server and a multitasking machine. The biggest degradation to audio transparency is (a) the audio hardware limitatio... | |
| experience with Bryston BDA-1 ? unless you use kernel streaming you will get a lifeless experience playing music back. I don't find ASIO or WASAPI acceptable for audiophile level of playback. | |
| Power conditioning for computer audio Barking up the wrong tree, digital out from your MAC doesn't care about internal noise. Your MAC would be malfunctioning if 1's and 0's weren't being read correctly inside the case.But your external D/A and analog equipment does care about how cle... |