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| Volume level of ARC Ref 5 seems very high Got the Rothwells a couple of days ago in the mail but I was out of town so only just got around to testing it.I am using it in between the CDP and the Ref5SE but it can also be used between preamp and power amp. The reason I am using it this way ... | |
| Benchmark DAC2 or Bel Canto DAC3.5VB or OPPO 105 I havent heard the new Benchmark 2. I had the old DAC 1 Pre and thought it sounded dry. I've had a few Sabre32 DACs (Oppo 95, Audiolan 8200CDQ and W4S DAC2) and thought they had a familial sound. Sweet, smooth but I found the Bel Canto DAC3.5VB (e... | |
| Benchmark DAC2 or Bel Canto DAC3.5VB or OPPO 105 I'd get the Bel Canto and use the DAC's ht bypass feature and go direct to power amps. If you don't use power amps with the Onkyo, I recommend doing so. The Onkyo is decent but it's not stellar esp for stereo. | |
| restoring music library from mac "Time Machine" It shouldn't. Why would you think it does?Unless you ripped in Apple Lossless or AIFF and then used iTunes Match to match it to a lossy M4A format | |
| Amarra or amarra symphony??? I understand the creator of A+ is now working on new plug ins for the next version so the EQ might be in the works but there was an offer to buy the software at the current price before it gets upped with the new features.If you don't need DSD pla... | |
| Experiences with Blu-ray players MPS 5 has a fibre Playlink output. This goes to the Playlink input on the first MPD5The first MPD5 has a Playlink output that goes to the second MPD5 :) if you can afford the 3rd unit. The Playback Designs MPS5 and MPD5 list for US17k and 15k resp... | |
| Experiences with Blu-ray players @DougCNot quite. Multichannel SACDs can be played using a Playback MPS5 and a cascade of MPD-5 DACs via the Playlink chain.Using 1 MPS5+1 MPD5 gives you a 4.0 channel playback from a 5.1 source. Using 1MPS5+2MPD5 gives you 5.1 channel playback. | |
| Volume level of ARC Ref 5 seems very high I'll let you know when I get it :) | |
| CAPS 3.0 Zuma vs Mac Mini I think if you want to go the MacMini route, you can consider the Mojo mods which replaces the switched mode internal PSU with a DC filtered board. There's an external linear PSU that's larger than 4 Minis :PA custom built CAPS server may sound be... | |
| Experiences with Blu-ray players Or get an SACD player that does DSD to analog conversion directly without converting to PCM.EMM Labs/Playback and I believe dCS have custom built DACs that do this.I believe the Oppos use DSD capable DACs (off the shelf) as well. | |
| Volume level of ARC Ref 5 seems very high I've just ordered a set :) Will let you know how it goes. | |
| How to convert FLAC to WAV ? If the OP is using XLD to rip his CDs, I gather he's on the Mac platform.XLD also does conversion from FLAC to WAV/AIFF/ALAC among others.You use Preferences in XLD to set the output settings (same as when ripping CDs). This includes where the con... | |
| Which USB Cable do you like using If you think that's bad wait till you see the Locus USB cables :)I did swap them out for my friends at a shootout a while back and a lot of them found the changes from USB cables we used that day quite noticeable. There were: Acoustic Revive 1.0SP... | |
| Experiences with Blu-ray players For me:two channel SACDs are played on an EMM Labs XDS1two channel DVDAs are played on Oppo 95 feeding optical to XDS1XDS1->ARC Reference 5SE->Electrocompaniet Nemos->Thiel CS3.7multichannel DVDA/SACDsDenon 4010 Universal player ->Deno... | |
| Volume level of ARC Ref 5 seems very high Would some thing like this work?http://www.rothwellaudioproducts.co.uk/html/attenuators.html |