doug_mann
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| New DAC??? Jolida FX tube DAC??? Telescope_trade, sorry to hijack this (inactive) thread in order to ask you a question, but here goes: back in March you made very favorable comments about the Jolida JD5T preamp upgraded version. Any further impressions or comparisons? I'm taking... | |
| Sony XA5400ES lack of bass when new? Like many others here, I have found the Sony 5400es to have appropriate levels of deep bass right out of the box. However, its bass definition is not as good as that of my Cary Xciter DAC (using the Sony as a transport via a 0.5 meter coax cable).... | |
| Any reviews/input on Cary Audio Xciter DAC? The Xciter DAC manual at http://www.caryaudio.com/pdfs/manuals/Xciter_DAC_manual.pdf is clear that the upper limit of the USB input sampling rate is 48 khz (see pp. 6 and 12), but it is unclear as to whether the word length limit is 16 or 24 bit. ... | |
| Any reviews/input on Cary Audio Xciter DAC? 2nd try - I posted a detailed response earlier today and it didn't get through for reasons unknown to me. So, briefly, I used the Cary's Toslink input, driven by my Blu-Ray player through a 0.5 meter glass fiber cable. The Cary locked up to the 24... | |
| Any reviews/input on Cary Audio Xciter DAC? Wyred has a great reputation and that is ESS's 32-bit chip; I'll bet it's awesome. No specs on the Wyred site yet, though; do you know whether they are using any of the new minimum phase or "apodizing" filters (Meridian, Ayre, and Cambridge use di... | |
| Any reviews/input on Cary Audio Xciter DAC? Hi Moofoo, here's some followup. Redbook CD playback, Cary Xciter vs. Sony 5400es: (Caveat: my Xciter DAC was thoroughly broken in by the previous owner, but my new 5400es has been on for 200 hrs, played about 30 hrs.) At this point the Xciter DAC... | |
| Any reviews/input on Cary Audio Xciter DAC? You are most welcome. I read the 6moons review of the Underwood-modified Music Hall 25.2 CDP and it sounds like a very nice unit. However, even if you paid an extra $100 to get the Burr-Brown op amp upgrade, I think the Cary would have the technol... | |
| Any reviews/input on Cary Audio Xciter DAC? I've just spent an evening listening to the Cary Xciter DAC and it's pretty amazing. Don't be fooled by the MSRP of $1,500. Cary kept the costs down by simplifying (no remote, single-ended outputs only, non-adjustable 24/192 upsampling, simple but... | |
| Any reviews/input on Cary Audio Xciter DAC? There's a review posted at: http://hometheaterreview.com/cary-audio-xciter-dac-reviewed/The Cary DAC apparently sounded better than the DAC built into the reviewer's Esoteric DV-50 (a universal player introduced around 2002, I think). I will be re... |