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| PerfectWave DAC / Zodiac Gold Shootout Round 1 Keep rubbing it in. I forfeited my spot on the first 25 list because I was on vacation, and have been waiting for my MKII board ever since, in a state of clinical depression. | |
| PS Audio PerfectWave DAC Upgrade Funny, two years ago, before the bridge was released I was sceptical about the chances of succes of the bridge project and started inquiring with both Steve Nugent and Rick Cullen if they could build me a custom USB -> I2S interface using the P... | |
| Arvo Part... Where have you been my whole life? Bryon, I "discovered" Arvo Part's Tabula Rasa, (albeit 20 years ago), and then ended up getting pretty much the entire catalogue. Your question got me thinking and the closest thing to Part I ever heard is the achingly beautiful composition "Carmi... | |
| Blu-Ray, SACD & NetFlix player? Not sure about your budget, but the plain vanilla Oppo 93 will do all of the above for $500. If you are not planning to use the analog outs, this would be the way to go. | |
| Stillpoint component stand with Verity Parsifals For better response I suggest you start your own "Stillpoint Ultra" thread. | |
| cd's/SACDS to test highs? Not sure what genre you're into, but there is an incredibly beautiful "classical song', with very high female vocals (but not opera style) interplaying with a violin (Gidon Kremer), on the Arvo Part album "Arbos". The song is called "es sang for l... | |
| cd's/SACDS to test highs? For me female vocals, cymbals and violin are the litmus test for highs. I always listen to Rachelle Ferrell's "first instrument" for female vocals. There are many excellent SACD's with very well recorded solo violin (e.g. Bach partitas), and numer... | |
| Purpose of using same speakers for surround? The question is about 4 identical speakers (not same manufacturer). I totally agree that getting the same manufacturers speakers is typically a good idea. But I stick by my opinion that in most applications getting 4 identical speakers is not. (Ex... | |
| Purpose of using same speakers for surround? It is an interesting theory, but a very bad way to allocate your budget. Lets say you have $20K to spend on those four speakers. Your options are spending $5K on four identical speakers. Alternatively you can spend say $9K a piece for mains and $1... | |
| PS Audio Power Plant Premier Power Cables I finally bit the bullet and tried a pair of the Shunyata Phyton CX between the wall and my now 2 P5's. Fully expecting to hear no improvoment over the cheap (but very heavy gauge) cords I am currently using, I sat back and listened. It took me al... | |
| CBIIIHD One more comment. Theta has been talking about a high rez digi out card for years, and even shown some sort of prototype. What exactly this card would do beyond what the existing card already does is a mystery, because the existing digi out card i... | |
| CBIIIHD The CBIII HD itself cannot process internally beyond 48/24, but output on the digi out card is restricted to 48/16 due to HDMI licensing restictions. See my comments on other forum for the PWD integration question. This can be done, but the tricky... | |
| Affordable "audiophile" network player? $500 will buy you an Oppo 93, which will do what you want (disclaimer, the music library management functionality is extremely limited - basically you work from your directory structure. You need a DLNA server on your network). However, for this $... | |
| PS Audio PerfectWave DAC Upgrade Mr. Tennis, basing your purchase decision on an $800 upgrade with a full money back guarantee on "reports" from others, stikes me as misguided. Just get the upgrade, hear for yourself and send it back if you don't like it. | |
| PS Audio PerfectWave DAC Upgrade Simple. Get the upgrade and return it for a full refund if you don't like it. |