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| Favorite poorly-recorded albums BeBop Deluxe "Life in the Air Age"Agree with JT AqualungTomy Bolin "Private Eyes, Teaser"All my Traffic "Traffic, Mr. Fantasy, John Barleycorn, Last Exit, Low Spark"Agree with Yes "Yes Album, Close to the Edge"Caravan "New Symphonia" (CD only)Earl... | |
| Wadia 171i Digital Transport Sound Issues There may be another factor, and that has to do with the use of the 840c.I have another post where I describe the use of the 840c as a player into a Bryston BDA-1. I found a similar reduction in clarity when using the upsampled digital outputs of ... | |
| Are Disc Players Dead? Kijanki:I have not had a hard drive fail either, but I use very expensive SCSI drives for my servers. The popular and cheap SATA drives have a poor reliability record. Just look at the selection of reviews on NewEgg for any of them. Even though I ... | |
| Solid State CD Player under $2000 Another point re the CA 840. It will OUTPUT a variety of digital formats all the way up to 24 bit 192 KHz. This makes a combo with the Bryston BDA-1 very interesting as it will accept inputs up to this level as well. This allows potential bypassin... | |
| Best Way To Archive Vinyl On My PC GhasleyThat Korg looks like a pretty neat product. A digital recorder with 120 hrs of storage that can also play back analog! So it has an A/D and D/A in the same package. Cool. | |
| Are Disc Players Dead? Another thing folks are overlooking. There is NO storage media in a PC or Mac that is archival quality. What happens when your hard drive crashes and destroys all your files? Or you lose or misplace a thumb drive? They can be a pain to recover. An... | |
| step up transformer on cd player I think any transformer MAY effect the sound. I was using a Furman AR-16 voltage regulator (which uses a variable torroidal transformer to regulate voltage) on my Cambridge Audio 840c and I noticed a considerable amount of high end "fuzz" and othe... | |
| best rock SACDs Dire Straights Love Over Gold. Love that album. Still have the vinyl version with the 45 RPM LP side of "Private Investigations". The sonic quality from that album still has not been matched on CD. | |
| Building a Music Server that will play all formats I would check out the discussions at http://www.computeraudiophile.com/content/Computer-Audiophile-Pocket-Server-CAPS-v20computeraudiophile.comThey do not recommend connecting outboard DACs to standard computer hardware. There are numerous problem... | |
| Best Way To Archive Vinyl On My PC You need an Analog/Digital converter (the opposite of the Digital to Analog converter you have now).I have seen one product from Benchmark that does thishttp://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=BEADC1USBbut cannot vouch for the sonic qualit... | |
| Are Disc Players Dead? Cloud is useless when your internet connection goes down. And yes it happens.Vinyl will always be around because to some, it represents the ultimate in sonic quality. It is a major pain to use, and very expensive these days to outfit with hardware... | |
| Solid State CD Player under $2000 I have a CA 840c and was considering adding the Bryston D/A to take advantage of their class A analog circuitry (the CA is OP2134 opamps). Agree that adding yet another CD player alone might not make sense for the future. At least with the Bryston... | |
| Appreciate recommendations for SS preamp purchase Don't think specs will help you make a decision. Noise on most modern solid state amps is very good, assuming you don't have hum or ground loop problems. I have a Halo P3 as well as the Cambridge, and noise wise both are dead quite with the JC-1 p... | |
| Isolation transformer - does it offer protection Depends on the frequency response characterisitcs of the transformer and its construction.For mid frequency transients, it may work very well. But some solation transformers capacitively couple very high frequency spikes from input to output witho... | |
| Power Cord for Power Conditioner Looks like we're back to the age old dilemma that audio has been struggling with since the 50s.Human perception vs scientific measurement. Everyone is familiar with the distortion measurements vs audibility arguments made for amplifiers. All amps ... |