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| "BEST USED" CD player or players at about $1000 Jimbo:You may want to contact Wally at Underwood. I believe he lives in Hawaii. | |
| Good optical cable I presume you want glass fiber (not plastic)?I have found a reasonably priced source for glass fiber. Its made by SonicWave and you can find it on Amazon. I think DHLabs also makes some reasonably priced glass fiber Toslink cable as well. | |
| Modded Cambridge Audio 550C player. Rating?? Are you perhaps expecting a silk purse from a sow's ear?I might suggest that claims of this player (modded or otherwise) besting products 10X its price are a bit exagerated.I have an 840C that is considerably more sophisticated and better built th... | |
| CDP or DAC/Transport for $1300 new? The basic audio CD (as opposed to computer based DVD/CDROM) drives are becoming extinct as manufacturer after manufacturer (the two big ones Sony/Philips) stops making them. The writing is on the wall, folks.That is why I went with a PWT from PS A... | |
| Programmable remotes After re-considering the Harmony (Logitech) remotes, I decided to go with a URC R50. It does not have the advantage of the online database, but I did confirm URC (which makes professional HT remotes) has quite a large database (that includes Bryst... | |
| AES/EBU XLR pinouts Extra...:Try your cable with pin 1 disconnected at you A/D and let us know what you think.In my experience the dual grounded XLR AES/EBU sounded about the same as coax to me. The single gounded XLR sounded much better. But this may be a quirk rela... | |
| Upgrade CD player or get into LPs? Suggestions I used to listen exclusively to LPs back in the 70s- early 80s. When CDs came along I bought in mainly to save wear and tear on my LPs, which I stll considered my reference source for music. CDs replaced cassette tape and the convenience of using ... | |
| AES/EBU XLR pinouts Here's an update to this post. I built an XLR cable with DHLabs D-110 AES/EBU digital cable and Neutrik XLR connectors, about 1.5 ft long.First version of the cable had the shield drain wire connected to pin 1 at BOTH ends of the cable, as in stan... | |
| "BEST USED" CD player or players at about $1000 My vote is for the Cambridge Audio 840. I have been using one for a couple of years, and was feeding the digital outputs to my Bryston BDA-1. I recently purchased a PS Audio PWT to replace it, but feeding both to my Bryston and A/B'ing has shown m... | |
| Programmable remotes Thanks for the info, folks.I guess no one is using the Philips. Logtech is clearly the market leader and their online configuration utility is nice (when you can get to a server).I am not crazy about the motion detect function on most of the Logit... | |
| Phono Pre Amp Recommendation Richard:Why would you change your pre-amp and not the cartridge? If the PS Audio (GCPH???) sounded fine with the mm cart, perhaps a HO mc might be a better compromise?Also, seems like your budget would better fit a cartridge change vs a pre-amp ch... | |
| PASS Labs x350.5 vrs. Parasound JC1 I cannot comment on the Pass amps, but I am running two JC1s with my B&W 803ds. I routinely listen with these amps in the "high bias" position. I doubt if there is really much of a difference between 25 watts and 40 watts or so (actually only ... | |
| Bryston BDP-1 compatibility Al:I think you were right about the file system. Hard drives, flash drives, and USB flash drives all use a FAT 32 hard drive type file system. CDROMs and DVDROMs do not. They will not look like a HD or flash drive to the Bryston when connected via... | |
| AES/EBU XLR pinouts "I have question for you related with usb connection.Sometimes when computer is connected to bda1 in such manner I hear some cracking sounds going from left to right channels.Have you experienced something like that?May be it has somehow related w... | |
| Amp preamp impedance matching...can anyone explain? I would like to add another factor to the discussion.The ratio of 10/1, while ballpark, may not be the only factor if the solid state device uses operational amplifiers in the output stage. Many opamps have output impedances well below 1K, but if ... |