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| Monoblocks vs Bi-amping "...I would think bi-amping would be superior since the each amp would see a more stable impedance profile"Hello,Spectron claims that their amp is stable to the load up to 0.1 Ohm so this should not be concern to you.I own B&W 802N and drive t... | |
| USB DACs with 24/192 via USB Answering question of the original poster: - No, today there is no DAC that can receive a 24/192 input via USB.Vast majority of them is limited to 16/48. The best DACs which can accept 24/96 are that of Gordon Rankin and Charles Heston who uses Ra... | |
| SACD Player with hi-rez digital input My friend Mark (Hunter-1) cannot log-in here. However, he spoke with Esoteric Technical rep, Tim and indeed I was wrong. SA-50 can accept up to 192 kHz and 24 (or 32?) bits via its coaxial and optical (Toslink) S/PDIF digital interconnects.Great!R... | |
| SACD Player with hi-rez digital input "Technically it's not possible to pass native 24/192 through 1 rca input or 1 toslink input "Hello Kops - yes, I am familiar with this statement. Only AES or even two ARS can trasfer 192/24. I am not engineer and thus I am unable to argue on merit... | |
| SACD Player with hi-rez digital input Audioholik: Thank you very much for translation. I will cotact Esoteric again. If their Tawain importer is correct then this is what I need. If not then I will continue my search.Thanks againRafael | |
| SACD Player with hi-rez digital input Hello Audioholik,RE: Input digital signal's sampling frequency in SA-50?I spoke with some guy at Esoteric USA "Tom"...he could be mistaken. My computer does not recognize the language of the post(s) - link to which you postsed (http://www.audionet... | |
| Music Server with Hi-Rez digital outputs ? Thank you Moonlightaudio for your detailed answer.I am curious, have you compared the sound quality between SACD analog input digitized by Music Vault and CD layer of Hybrid SACD "ripped" to Music Vault.That is very interesting.Also, small questio... | |
| SACD Player with hi-rez digital input Hello A1126lin: Esoteric SA-50 can accept only data with sampling rate up to 96 kHzRafael | |
| Hard Drive versis Flash Drive 2chnlben,Thank you very much for your answer. Being novice I have to ask another naive question...PWD (and few others) is both DAC + Server . However, I saw number of excellent DA's which are .."only" DACs e.g. Weiss Minerva or MSB Platinum and le... | |
| Spectron amplifier - new black faceplate? You don't like reviewer comparison Spectron performance to that of Bentley? OK, to the best of my knowledge - next week or so will be another review published. Spectron amp is compared there with the best TUBE amplifiers around. I been told that o... | |
| Hard Drive versis Flash Drive Hello 2chnlben,As I understand you are investingating PWD for your use and for NAS you recommended: " Buffalo Linkstation products " as well as ..."I highly recommend ripping in flac".Looks good, however, today I saw on PS Audio forum interesting ... | |
| Sweetest SS preamp for Classical? Joule-Electra LA-150 preamp. You can buy it here for about $1.5k.Well, I never auditioned solid state preamp, regarless of the price which I like. I am professional cello player and I pay for it. However, if you want low maintence of ss preamp the... | |
| New PS Audio PerfectWave Hello Emailists,Its great to have somebody on the forum who can get inside info. I am also looking into PWT and PWD combo. Were you able to auditioned them both?I have a few Hybrid SACDs and I wonder if you or anybody else auditioned CD layer with... | |
| I2S mods on Squeezebox I also have heard about Steve Nugent, Empirical Audio from people who were rather happy with his quality of work.Good Luck!Rafael | |
| Hard Drive versis Flash Drive Hello 2chnlbean,I am familiar with RipNAS but I like more your idea of having Buffolo NAS (say Pro Duo Link 2T for about $300) and separately CD ripper. RipNas is nuch more expensive (about $1.4k) and can rip only CD's not DVD's So, I am not sure ... |