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| CD upgrade It sounds like you have a fairly good DAC. I my experience, the quality of the transport can make a significant difference. The best I have heard are of the top loading variety. Also, try experimenting with different digital interconnects. Often, ... | |
| Digital Room Correction: The Final Frontier? Rives,Does your product address time alignment issues ala Tact? How do you avoid injecting phase incoherence when performing analog eq? I, too, have been eying the Tact systems, however, they are expensive, and I am not looking to add another D/A ... | |
| Tri-Vista SACD, what do you think? Although I found it of limited use, there is a review in the current Stereophile magazine. This featured review does little comparison with the competition - mostly it focuses on a $32K DCS rig (pointless) and MF's own redbook player. How it fares... | |
| New Krell SACD player I just spoke to the local dealer who says it will ship in "a couple" of weeks. | |
| Review: Shanling SCD-T200 CD Player Well she's all burnt in now, and sounding very good -especially with SACD. Describing the sound is little complex because there are essentially four different players in one unit: A redbook and a SACD, each with switchable output stages - either t... | |
| Alon Circe vs. JM Lab Mezzo Utopia The Mezzos should please you if your other components in the chain also deliver your stated preferences. Mezzos are revealing, so if any of your components, or interconnects lean towards the brittle, dry or etchy side of things, that's what you'll... | |
| dac or new cd player Generally speaking, carousel players make poor transports. They tend to produce high amounts of jitter. For less than what you'd end up spending on a quality DAC and a high quality interconnect, you'd likely get better results with a new single CD... | |
| Tri-Vista SACD, what do you think? Spizm,Do you know if the Tri-vista was sufficiently broken in when you compared? | |
| Review: Shanling SCD-T200 CD Player Siddh,I'm not familiar with the T200 upgrade. What's it about?Tobias,Thanks for clueing me in on the cone feet.It's been continuously on for 2 days now, and things are getting better already. Gone is the brittle, harsh, sibilants-fome-hell treble.... | |
| cable advice needed Sugarbrie,The best advice I can give is to borrow(broken in) cables and try them in your own system. It's the only way you'll truly know what works, and what doesn't. Any decent dealer will loan you a pair, if you are a serious buyer. That said, g... | |
| Monitor selection Lawbadman,The impressions I shared are regarding "Maggies" as a breed, and not specific to any one model. I have heard them on several occasions and in different venues and simply don't recall which models in the alphabet soup they may have been a... | |
| Monitor selection Lawbadman,I stand corrected. As Zaikesman so enthusiastically points out, Maggies are not electrostatic, and hence can not arc. I have, however, heard them on several occasions, and simply assumed, based on their sound and appearance, that they we... | |
| Quality CD Player with Tact RCS I'm probably too late, but how about avoiding DACs all together and keeping the TACT in the digital domain? If your CD player has a digital out, and either your CD player or DAC has a digital in, then you can avoid conversions, and go with the DAC... | |
| Monitor selection Hard to imagine why maggies are not clear, considering that's there long suit. I would encourage trying different amps, and speaker cable before replacing them. My bet is that something upstream is preventing them from reaching their potential. Al... | |
| Genie in a bottle Have you tried steam cleaning with the Eureka Hot Shot Steam Cleaner? This has been recommended by several audiophile magazines. BTW - What was the wetting agent you used that has left all this residue? |