dlcockrum
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| Aurender N100H or Auralic Aries? Thanks hgeifman. Looked it up. Price is certainly right! Thanks again,Dave | |
| Oppo UDP - 205 Thanks Jeffrey. I’ll check it out. The latest Oppos are said to be excellent mod candidates. I recommend ModWright. Dan does 205 mods. Excellent! No need for an external DAC then 8^DDave | |
| Fuses fuses fuses Well, I can’t say that I have done the suggested extensive experimentation (fuse one way, then the other way, then back again and again, then at different rotations, etc), nor do I plan to, but I was monkeying around this morning behind my equipme... | |
| Oppo UDP - 205 Hi gdhal,People post all sorts of things - some true, some not. No doubt in my mind there are more satisfied owners (and even die-hard supporters) of Oppos than any other brand, and for good reasons. One is that they likely sell more than anyone e... | |
| Oppo UDP - 205 Nor many cheaper.Dave | |
| Aurender N100H or Auralic Aries? Thanks Tom and hgeifman. I pulled the trigger on buying a lightly used mint N100H. Should be here tomorrow. Also bought a used Exogal Comet Plus DAC with Wywires umbilical upgrade and a Triode Wire Labs Digital American power cord for it. It is sa... | |
| Oppo UDP - 205 Hi ozzy,Well, you are very well set then! I shoulda known ;) The PS Audio DirectStream is a very fine DAC.Re: the review, I can't see that the reviewer would be sending out a digital signal from the DAC for his review (what would be the point?), i... | |
| Oppo UDP - 205 Won't argue value with you gdhal. The 205 is an excellent value for those with combined audio/video systems.Dave | |
| Oppo UDP - 205 Hi Jeffrey and gdhal,I in no way intended to cast any dispersion on the Sabre DACs. Probably as good as any and better than most. There are also other great DAC chips (AKM used in Esoteric and Hegel products and TI/Burr Brown used in some top DACs... | |
| Fuses fuses fuses Hi Al,Don’t know, but I suspect you were simply caught up in flurry of the argument and thus the generalization. Can’t imagine anyone calling you irrational.George on the other hand, is the poster child.Dave | |
| Oppo UDP - 205 Hi Ozzy,Facts first: The Sonica DAC uses the same DAC chip as the 205 - the ESS ES9038 PRO Sabre DAC .The 205 uses two - but here is the fatal flaw IMO - instead of using the two ESS DAC chips in a dual mono config as some of the better players/DA... | |
| I need a new DAC! Advice/Recommendations? This one kills for the money:http://www.audiogon.com/listings/da-converters-hegel-hd12-dac-2017-06-28-digital Read the reviews. They are true. Dave | |
| Aurender N100H or Auralic Aries? Hi Tom (falconquest),I am set to make an immediate purchase decision on the Auralic Aries or the Aurender N100H. Which way did you go?Thanks,Dave | |
| 2017 Honest Cabling that doesn’t promote bankruptcy I have owned both the AQ Niagara 72V DBS ICs and the Synergistic Research Tesla (various models) & Element-series actively-shielded cables. Both apply DC power to the dielectric, albeit by different designs (battery vs "MPC" wall wart power su... | |
| Cable manufacturers? So, cable manufacturers (designers and assemblers) must be alchemist? Can't tell if your post is humor. I hope so.Dave |