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| Review: Green Mountain Audio Eos vs Callisto Monitor I only buy GMA speakers and have owned Europas, Callistos and EOS - My goal was to the inform owners of older models how much I enjoyed upgrading to the EOS. Thanks for your feedback. | |
| Wyred 4 Sound Dac1 vs. Dac2 The Ayre is now about $1400 more and used are getting near new price. Check out Computeraudiophile.com for some comparisons and lot's of reviews of the w4s. There are some comments indicating the bass definition of the QB-9 leaves some wanting mor... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound Dac1 vs. Dac2 I went right to the source and asked w4s about the diffence in sonic quality with async USB. They acknowledge that the DAC-1 will not sound as good as the DAC-2 without the upgrading the CAPS ($50) and upgrading to async USB ($250). Since that is ... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound Dac1 vs. Dac2 Roscoeiii- your comment about the DAC1 not having Async USB seems really important. This is what Gordon Rankin and Ayre having been touting as the major source of improvement. So unless the DAC chip itself is impervious to jitter, it seems as thou... | |
| asynchronous USB dac or jitter reducing device FYI, The EMU has an async USB interface that reduces jitter and compares favorably with other expensive USB DACS I have listened to. | |
| asynchronous USB dac or jitter reducing device Try an EMU 0404 - with balanced outputs - $185 does the job, sounds great. Yes, audiophiles will not like the plastic case but it works. | |
| Ayre QB-9 USB DAC Drubin - To clarify, CD playback went through the Monarchy tube DAC, Computer went through the QB-9. My preference was the QB-9 with computer playback. I don't do rapid switching, rather, I listen to short passages of music (45 to 60 seconds) and ... | |
| Ayre QB-9 USB DAC Just borrowed a QB-9 from my dealer. I am doing side by side comparison with my current DAC - My current system is:Ayre AX-7eGreen Mountain Calisto speakers w/tweaked paradigm subwoofer.Monarchy Tube DAC with NOS Amperex tubes.Monarchy DIP with 96... | |
| Ayre QB-9 USB DAC good to know, thanks Larry! I would prefer to have the drive powered by the USB port as well. | |
| Ayre QB-9 USB DAC Yep, good advice, I plan on taking it slow and learning more before I jump in. I am currently playing with the J-River Media Player and have already discovered that I cannot Rip my SACD's with my current computer (I don't have too many anyway) I a... | |
| Ayre QB-9 USB DAC I would refer you back to Hansen's white paper on clocking of data and how SPDIF clocks vs the USB Asynchrounous mode previously mentioned by Almarg.The only problem with all of this is that some DAC chip designers have designs that are very toler... | |
| Ayre QB-9 USB DAC I just attended the Ayre demonstration of the QB-9 using the newest Ayre MX-R monoblocks, Wilson Sophia's. Steve Silberman was on hand to demo and did comparisons with the DX-5 beta product (to be released). He did A/B comparison with a Redbook Cd... | |
| Ayre amplifier to Subwoofer connections Drubin - you might want to start by calling Steve at Ayre about this one. I am sure they have encountered this issue before. | |
| Tubes for base I have to agree with the subwoofer idea - and I DO hear subs, actually can hear down to 25 hz easily (high end is a different problem).Having said that, I just replaced some Matsushita's in my Monarchy tube DAC and replaced them with Amperex (Holl... | |
| Classe vs Moon audio vs Ayre vs Pass I can only give you my feedback regarding Simaudio Moon and Ayre. I have not used Classe or Pass in my system. I have also used Arcam, Rotel, and Parasound amps.I use a Monarchy tube DAC with DIP as a front end. Speakers are Green Mountain GMA. Al... |