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| Berkeley dac2/Alpha USB vs ps audio perfect wave ? Interesting. Never heard of USB related problems with the PWD MKII. Bad luck. Plenty issues with the bridge though. | |
| Berkeley dac2/Alpha USB vs ps audio perfect wave ? True. The only issues you may encounter are when using the bridge, but this is a feature the Berkeley does not have in the first place, so this should not be a disqualfier of the PWD MKII. If you stick with USB, you should never have any issues. | |
| David Wilson must be a little annoyed... Of course, the guy listing his Q7s on audiogon at the moment begs to differ and found himself something he likes better (the Evolution Acoustics MM7 to be precise). And then there is a pair of Evolution Acoustics MM3 listed. The seller of these is... | |
| Berkeley dac2/Alpha USB vs ps audio perfect wave ? Can't beat the PWD MKII for the price. I sold mine with bridge for $2400. The EMM Labs is a big notch up though. Hard to pin it down. Somehow there appears to be more going on with the music, and most definitely there is a better sense of the acou... | |
| Berkeley dac2/Alpha USB vs ps audio perfect wave ? This should be no contest with the MSB costing twice as much as the BADA and PWD MKII. I am also on the list to receive the MSB for a shootout against my EMM Labs DAC2X. The EMM Labs replaced my PWD MKII (and bested it by a substantial margin). | |
| Topnotch BluRay Concert..... The new Led Zeppeling Blu Ray is quite nice (not spectacular for a sound quality persective), as is the new Coldplay concert disc. | |
| How to introduce computer audio to my system? The problem with RAID is if you get hit by a power surge both drives in the enclosure will be wiped out. The safest backup strategy is to have one backup drive physically disconnected from power. Of course, better still is to have a backup drive i... | |
| How to introduce computer audio to my system? No matter what you do, you will have to rip your CD collection. If the server has a drive you can do it on the server. I personally have music server behind my main audio rack, so I cannot use it for ripping.The Bryston BDP-2 supports NAS storage.... | |
| How to introduce computer audio to my system? Simple test. If doggiehowser's post reads like Chinese to you (and you have no desire to learn Chinese), get a turnkey dedicated music server. If not, buy a Mac or PC. | |
| How to introduce computer audio to my system? First, what is your budget, what is your appetite for DIY systems integration, and what quality level do you want to achieve? In my estimation, you can get "state of the art" DIY for around 5K, and 10K prepackaged. You can get "very good" for arou... | |
| Empirical Audio Overdrive DAC: King of the Hill? I don't own an overdrive. I owned a Perfectwave MKII and was planning to compare it to an overdrive. I upped the budget and got an EMM Labs. The PWD MKII has been sold. I may get the new MSB analog DAC for a shootout against the EMM Labs shortly, ... | |
| the best, cost-no-object, music streamer? The list of contenders for "best streamer / server" keeps growing, which just underscores this is an emerging new segment with lots of new products hitting the market. The trigger is really the coming of age of computer audio, to the point where d... | |
| Empirical Audio Overdrive DAC: King of the Hill? Nope. I decided to jump right into the 5 figure segment instead, and ended up buying the EMM Labs DAC2X, which is a lot better than the PWD MKII (gap is bigger than I expected). | |
| are all sacd players the same? If you own a very good DAC and want to get very good 2 channel SACD playback without spending >5K on a very good SACD player, the smartest thing to do is to get the Vanity93 digi out board for the Oppo 93. This will convert DSD to 176/24 LPCM, ... | |
| the best, cost-no-object, music streamer? There are a lot of ways to architect a network based system . The term "streaming" is no used consistently. The weiss MAN201 supports streaming (i.e. plays music files coming in over ethernet). The PS Audio Perfectwave bridge does as well.However,... |