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| Unsatisfied with Esoteric K-01: Alternatives? I have K-01 and agree qith Guido - with great patience one can achieve great and highly musical sound.It includes and power cord and vibration control and if using DAC what server you use (I use Musica Pristina Virtuoso) etc etc. I luuuuuv the sou... | |
| Review: Music Vault Diamond Transport Hello Neal,Your contributions to computer audio over so many years should be recognized and applouded.Still, with you permission I will ask two questions which bother me in your new server#1 Your "best" switching power supplies: as it seem to me f... | |
| Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion " If a WOW system's like Sgr's barely discerns between FLAC an WAV then, I, *a mere mortal* should be just fine with FLAC."May be it has nothing to do with mortality and quality of the systems. May be you both are simply deaf?Sorry. Can help it! | |
| Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion Thank you Steve.I have only limited experience with upsampling and I am thankful to you for your much more generilized input | |
| My review of the Musica Pristina Virtuoso server I have described some important property of Musica Pristina Virtuoso in my system: ways to improve ripped and doanloaded music;http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?icomp&1334670966&openusid&zzDob&4&&Hope its useful.... | |
| Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion Hello Steve,"Dob - It helps to understand why upsampling makes things sound smoother and silkier. "I do not beleieve its always the case and depends larfely on the given DAC (with its filters and other parameters)I believe later on you also said t... | |
| Converting Flac to Wav & Upconversion I have Musica Pristina Virtuoso music server and here is my experience.1 When I rip CD into WAV and FLAC (two separate files) and compare both - WAVE is dramatically better then FLAC which sounds lean, thin, 2D and castrated2 When I take FLAC file... | |
| What is the best transport? " shows what a headache it is to enen get started with all this computer audio business, and that's before something crashes, freezes, has indecipherable instructions if there are any at all, etc."Firstly, in good server you do not have thisSecond... | |
| My review of the Musica Pristina Virtuoso server I agree with you in regard to both sound quality of Musica Pristina Virtuoso player I recently obtained as well as the quality of support from the company too. I will admit that the user interface is so simple and pleasure to use that I did not bo... | |
| Review: Music Vault Diamond Transport Hello Negli,The Music Vault Diamond described here in 2009 is not the same as it (or similar server) in 2013 !You can use iPAD for controlling most if not all "quality" servers offered today.You integrate server (this or any other) with the rest o... | |
| Thoughts from Joule preamp owners? "I upgraded my MK11 to the SE and I can tell you that the sound is the same only much better... "Luv it ! | |
| Amplification to B&W 800 Diamond I own B&W 802 Diamond and also have been a long time fan of B&W speakers. Also, I checked many, many amplifiers because these speakers are truly power hundgry.My choice was a pair of Spectron Musician III Mk2 fully balanced monoblocks and ... | |
| Which Preamp - Modwright or Joule-Electra? " Did you have a chance to compare the standard LA-150 MKII SE with its Platinum version?"No...but why its effect would be any different (qualitively) then that in LA-300ME ? I would suspect that the same upgarde in less expensive unit will make p... | |
| Which Preamp - Modwright or Joule-Electra? PLATINUM UPGRADE: I was one of the beta-testers. Its game changer. Its so strange to be honest. I have "300ME" and I think its the best preamp in the world. period. cannnot be possible improved. BAM ! I hear 450ME and I want to faint because I can... | |
| Which Preamp - Modwright or Joule-Electra? "I'd say that the Modwright is a value leader "I agree. FYI, I have listen to all J-E preamp I could find, starting from LA-75... and LA-150SE of course.The sound of LA-150SE is very, very close to that of LA-300ME. The biggest difference is that ... |