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| Empirical Audio Overdrive DAC: King of the Hill? To be precise, I would actually buy the Overdrive with a 30 day return option, allowing me to do the shootout. Still a generous policy of course. | |
| Witch vinyl LP , EP or single you acquired FIRST? Beatles, Help! | |
| the natural sound of a cymbal If you can hear it live, you should be able to hear it on a very good playback system. | |
| the natural sound of a cymbal You ain't seen nothing yet. Some people can hear the directionality of a fuse in an AC circuit. | |
| Worlds best DAC I think we are too hung up on the merits of "computer files" versus "CDs". They are both the exact same data. What matters are the timing errors in the transfer of this data to the DAC. In typical synchronous transfer mode, the transport provides ... | |
| Modwright Oppo 95 and Computer Audio First, having you entire music collection at your fingertips on an iPad / iPhone is priceless. There is no going back. Second if you have a good USB DAC or non-USB DAC with a USB converter, SQ computer audio is easily at par with spinning discs, i... | |
| Guitar Solos Eric Clapton on the long version of "Old Love" on the "24 nights" live album.Jimmy Page - on "since I've been loving you" | |
| New or Upgrading Pre - Pro Your decision revolves around whether or not you want to go down the room correction path. If so, I would get a decent $2K new SSP with HDMI. This technology progresses fast and the older SSP just don't have the features you need. The alternative ... | |
| PS Audio PerfectWave DAC Upgrade Mrtennis, for some the funds of the upgrade may be better applied towards a state of the art tennis racket. For the rest of us the upgrade is a no brainier. We are enjoying our upgrade every day, some of the best bang for the buck ever in high end... | |
| New or Upgrading Pre - Pro If you are planning to use the pre/pro as a multi channel preamp only, rather than getting an older Mcintosh, you are better off scooping up the used Bel Canto MCH pre that is currently listed. What this will not give you is decoding of MCH coming... | |
| Empirical Audio Overdrive DAC: King of the Hill? I am planning to do a double blind shootout between the overdrice SE and my PWD MKII sometime this summer, so stay tuned. | |
| Fine trumpet , alto sax recordings? The problem with traditional "smooth jazz" (Kenny G and ilk), is they have a nice tone, but the music is artistically shallow. My favourite saxophone player with a beautiful mellow tone AND artistic depth is Paul Desmond. For beatifully mellow mus... | |
| Wanted: NHT X2 electronic crossover. I can't imagine ever going back to an analog cross-over, but I still like to hold on to my X2, because it has a unique feature and is so dirt cheap. | |
| Name your 5 favorite Led Zeppelin tracks. I don't know the entiry catalogue, but from what I do know, "since I've been login you" is hands down my favourite. "Going to california" is not to shabby either, love that "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp", and "Stairway" is of course a timeless classic. | |
| Wanted: NHT X2 electronic crossover. Hevac, glad to hear you scored a NHT. I was thinking about you when I reconfigured my system, but decided to keep my unit in storage. I have moved to an all digital trinnov processor in the chain, doing duties as crossover, room correction and vol... |