ehider
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| Opinions Needed: Active or passive pre I spent years dabbling with both passive and active pre amps. Based on my experience, no matter what you buy, or what you spend, it all boils down to the following: passive pre amp lose some of the "kick" in the music, that an active design preser... | |
| SACD - Another year and ... It's not my group doing the mods, I am just an audiophile that has been fortunate enough to find an unbeleivably talented circuit designer who implements these mods. Over the years, he has saved me and my other buddies many thousands of dollars, a... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Hey Gmkowal, Digital cables do sound different!. From a theoretical standpoint, there does not seem to be a basis to "different sounding digital cables". As an Electrical Engineer myself, who represents a high end manufacturer of A/D and D/A conve... | |
| TACT Millenium Mk. II It is the real deal. One of the most interesting presentations at lsat years CES was the TACT demonstration. I have been involved in high end audio for over 20 years, and have been let down by all of the hype most of the time. Fortunately, this am... | |
| Rear Projection TV Unfortunately, there is not one best rear projection manufacturer. Mitsu is O.K., and so is Pioneer. Pioneer's products are usually priced at higher price points, so its not fair to compare them to cheaper alternatives. Currently, Toshiba's produc... | |
| Good entry level transport? Forget all of the above. The best transport under $1000, $2000 and more is........are you ready?......Aiwa XC-35M!. This five disc changer, available at Best Buy, costs less than $125.00 I know that this is hard to beleive, so let me explain; I am... | |
| Do CD-R's sound the same as originals O.K. guys, time for an experiment. For those of you who think there is no degridation in copies, try copying a copy, then copy that copy until you are at least 10 generations away from the original. Hopefully this procees will compound any sonic a... | |
| Any UPS horror stories? ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS DOUBLE BOX! A little known fact is that UPS almost always honors damage claims if the package was double boxed. (The damage claim personnel probably are sworn to secrecy on this one; I accidentally overheard a conversation b... | |
| Best one box 16-bit cd player The Pioneer Elite PD-93 with a modified gain stage (list price $2300.00). This player has unbelievable contruction that has yet to be duplicated by ANY other manufacturer to this date....A complete cast copper plated chassis, all parts are copper ... | |
| SACD - Another year and ... I totaly agree with Whatjd's hardball comments!. He has pointed why most digital gear sounds like crap. I am part of a small audiophile group who has discovered how to modify their digital gear. We replace those junky ic's, those inadequate power ... | |
| CD Copies...why do they sound worse? Too much noise, not enough jitter immunity on the digital recievers in the cd burners...this all adds up to degridation on the cd copy. Bits are not bits, don't forget the time based errors! These differences can have some of the most detrimental ... | |
| SACD - Another year and ... SACD is already dead! yea, yea I know...nobody in the high end community wants to admit that a better format might not make it...but just like Elcasette, DAT and DCC this format will not survive. Sorry guys, I hope I am wrong, but unfortuntely I a... | |
| Adcom Mods by Supermod. Stan is the best of the best in the mod business (My opinion, along with 20+ others ...that I know ...who faithfully use Stan). He is one of the only mod guys that actually develops and implements his own proprietary gain topologies (he is not a c... | |
| Best Audio Related Story (or joke). Response to David99 about reviewers. Your statement is exactly what my buddy was trying to disprove! These individuals are not always the godly, golden eared people that everyone takes them for!...they are human, like you and me. This means that w... | |
| Speaker Placement/new component Definately! In my experience this has been true everytime I change a pre-amp, d/a, amp or cables . It seems as if each component sometimes "improves" the sountstage, which in turn allows the speakers to be placed farther apart (and sometimes I hav... |