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| Reference DACS: An overall perspective To me there are two types of DAC's. DAC's that have smooth but somewhat dark (more at the "ying" site) sound with less detail retrieval but often with great PRaT and DAC's that are more "yang" with enormous amounts of detail but at the same time l... | |
| Quad ESL or Soundlab? The stacked Quad 57's can be considered as benchmark electrostatic speakers. The Soundlab A-1's (which I own) remind me of them. The Soundlabs have more bass and deeper bass. Also the SPL handling is better (can play louder).Chris | |
| ML 320S Hi Hans, why didn't Mark Levinson/Madrigal decide to do the same thing as you've mentioned? Have you told ML to replace those op amps with the OPA627?Btw, do you know what op amps were being used by Accuphase in their C-290V preamp? The sound of A... | |
| Spectron Musician 3 First Impressions? Can you imagine what would happen if Spectron decides to make an upgraded version of the amplifier with state of the art components, like Mundorf caps, Jensen coils, and so on...And of course: another chassis, made of solid slabs of aluminium, tre... | |
| Best digital cable to audition? Albert, in my opinion the Purist Audio Dominus digital is a refined but a bit laid back cable.Chris | |
| tube Watts vs solid state Watts Interesting concept. Can you explain that a bit please? What is in this case the high torque engine: the tube amp or the pure class A solid state amp?Chris | |
| Tube CDP/DAC sound: too "refined"? You are 100 % right about the "just enjoy the music, don't worry about some restrictions because they are not worth to worry about" thing. But you have also to admit that when an audio component introduces an additive coloration this could be more... | |
| tube Watts vs solid state Watts Ok folks, so the point is here not that the tube Watts are more "powerful" than solid state Watts in absolute terms (when measured) but they are more powerful in terms of psycho acoustics. It's the subjective finding that not all Watts are the sam... | |
| tube Watts vs solid state Watts Undertow: what is your explanation for these a bit counter intuitive findings? So those people who say that tube Watts and solid state Watts are not alike should be taken seriously?Chris | |
| Tube CDP/DAC sound: too "refined"? Honest1: yes, texture can be heard in real life, that is some minute irregularities and "noise" in music because of bouncing of the sound against the performer, instrument, surrounding walls and acoustic structures. If this "texture" is smooth ove... | |
| tube Watts vs solid state Watts And what about pure class A solid state Watts and class B Watts? Many audiophiles (who are often non techies) say that a 50W pure class A solid state amp is comparable to a let's say 200W class B amp. Is this bullshit? Why do people give that kind... | |
| Tube CDP/DAC sound: too "refined"? Of course this was a "trick" question meant to arouse you people. Are there other audiophiles (with solid state based systems) who want to give a response?Chris | |
| The "Spoiler" with "Pace Car" Can you tell us what is the difference between the Spoiler and a more conventional DAC? And what does the Pace Car do? Is it a sort of reclocking device or memory buffer like the old Genesis Digital Lens?Chris | |
| Heard my friend's system, thinking of leaving hifi I've heard a full TACT system + speakers by Dynaudio (not active) in a large room. The system sounded awesome! But why didn't it sound... musical? The other room in which they demoed Accuphase gear with Cabasse speakers was far more engaging. So: ... | |
| To cryo or not to cryo I have some experience with cryoed powercords. I think cryoed powercords sound more dynamic and noisefree ("blacker background") than their non cryoed counterparts and sound more extended in the frequency extremes, but at the same time they also l... |