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| Debate on a whole front end change There are 2 issues here - the sound and the convenience. Let's start with sound.Is the Denon the DP-S1 - a landmark product? If I remember correctly, it is a transport. I believe that the Theta you are referring to is actually a DAC + preamp. The ... | |
| Canton or Sonus Faber Koven - are you referring to the older models or the new M series? | |
| Recommend Well-Recorded Hard Bop Jazz on CD? Have you considered going vinyl? There are original releases available. The Original Jazz Collections (OJC) re-issues are available and often better than the CDs. The new remasters can be very good. Unfortunately, as you know, the original CDs of ... | |
| Cambridge Audio 840C DAC vs. what? I am using a hiFace with my MF A3-24 and love the sound. It has great detail without being edgy or digital for me. I agree that it is necessary to consider the whole stream, not a single device. Sounds like you are on top of your system design. | |
| Louis W Erath - In Memoriam My first real stereo was LWE-III speakers driven by a Dynaco SCA-80 and a Garrard turntable with some sort of Shure cartride. The LWE-III were the ready to finish ones, which were great for a college student. People always noticed the feedback wir... | |
| Cambridge Audio 840C DAC vs. what? Many of the newer DACs have a digital signature which can lead to listener fatigue - very detailed but also fatiguing. For me, The 840c was in this overly digital camp. I ended up with a used Musical Fidelity A3-24, an upsampling DAC that accepts ... | |
| Amp for Sonus Faber Cremona - old model Rudge - I have Conerto Homes with a Pathos Classic One mark III and love the sound. I would like to hear the Cremona with 2 of these in mono mode. Are you going to the original model or the M?Miner42 - the general reports are that the M's are much... | |
| Amp for Sonus Faber Cremona - old model I use a Classe CP-65 pre and a Levinson 432 amp (400 watts at 8 ohm) with my Cremona. I have tried big Classe amps with the Cp-65 pre and find the sound a little harsh. Likewise, a Levinson 32 or 326 pre is too laid back with the 432 amp. So, a ne... | |
| Utilizing PC, options for downloading muti-channel It is possible that the 2 channel on the disc may be an upconverted version of the original 16/44 rather than a downmix of the 6 channel 24/96. It would not be the first time that was done.You might want to look into outputing the downmixed digita... | |
| Utilizing PC, options for downloading muti-channel If by DVD Extractor you are referring to DVD Audio Extractor from Computer Audio Solution (CAS) (the one I referred to above), then I believe it can read the 6 channel audio and downmix it to 2 channel. Have you tried that? Many DVD Audios have bo... | |
| Utilizing PC, options for downloading muti-channel Look at the recent thread on how to rip DVD audio.I use DVD Audio Extractor to read DVD-Audio discs from my standard DVD player on my laptop. I just extract the hi rez 2 channel tracks, but it has an option to read multichannel and output 2 channe... | |
| 24/96 files for M2tech hiFace I just installed DVD Audio Extractor and extracted some DVD-A tracks to wav files. It was very easy, although I have to add the tag information. Now I can compare the 24/96 files to the 16/44 files. Also, I can now compare the 24/96 files from my ... | |
| 24/96 files for M2tech hiFace I think the lack of response may be because DAD is not all that common. I did find a DVD extractor that has a free 30 day trial period. I have not used it but it sounds like it should be able to extract the audio tracks from a DAD disc and output ... | |
| 24/96 files for M2tech hiFace I am no expert, but I think you need DVD-A ripping software to rip DAD. Another test you can try is to use Foobar to play a 24/96 file and then have it down rez it to 16/44 for comparison. I use Kent Poon's free downloads as samples of 24/96 audio... | |
| M2Tech HiFace - using it? Like it? I am concerned about the development of the drivers for the HiFace on Win 7. The current release (1.0.3.141) does not work with J River and WASAPI. You need a previous version (1.0.3.140) which has some problems of its own. This has been the situa... |