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| The best mini monitors you have heard? I also agree that the Ridgestreet Audio Sasons best the Magico minis in virtually every respect, especially their full range bass! | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock Agear, IMHO you are absolutely correct that USB intefaces are not created equal. (If it was only that simple!). I think we will see just a select few USB based digital standouts in the next year or so. Most likely, many of their competitors will b... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock So let's try to make this less confused *. Here are some of my points:- This Esoteric clock and other's like it are not the wave of the future IMHO. They are more 'band-aids" trying to correct issues of our past way of doing digital transports and... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock Hi Chris, The prototype USB DAC that surprised my ears is not related with the Burwen Bobcat/Daniel (note, a few audiophiles with ears I trust say that the Burwen is very special indeed). The USB DAC I heard was a pre-production unit from a compan... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock Dgarretson; Ha! You really cracked me up with that 'WDP' moniker! I am not sure what I am allowed to say about the prototype USB DAC that I heard - The digital front end consisted of an Apple computer (that had the CD's transferred to it's interna... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock Chris, your question about repairing source material jitter involves a bit more complexity than what the Esoteric Rubidium is actually accomplishing. A good way to think of exotic reclocking devices (such as the Esoteric) is they are repairing the... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock Rgt; I seriously applaud the Nova player designers. They are solving issues that most other digital solutions fail to address. I have no doubt that the Nova is very close to the "top of the heap" digital offerings at this point in time. Much close... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock Sean; the USB DAC that I have been citing does NOT connect to a CD transport, It connects directly to a computer i.e. my posts statements regarding the "hard drive" . With this methodology, the computer does not have a SPDIF (traditional) connecti... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock Perhaps a re-iteration of my explanation is in order. All SPDIF digital connections (read "traditional") cannot sonically compete with a properly designed USB Dac (being driven by a hardrive). Even if the traditional digital connection is being "b... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock Kamil is correct about the need of some sort of "clock" . The point I've been making with my posts is that the synchronization of TWO clocking signals, between a "traditional" type of transport and a DAC, is completely eliminated with USB connecti... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock I wish I could talk more about what I recently heard (I've been sworn to secrecy). As to my earlier posts, I was not talking about a USB DAC that is currently available to the audiophile public at this very moment. Based on my discussion with the ... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock The big breakthrough in upcoming Dacs has much more to it than just if they are USB connected. It's more to how the data is streamed from a hard drive to the USB dac. There are HUGE sonic gains to this methodology ONLY if it is properly executed. ... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock This type of product is already obsolete and I am sure that many audiophiles aren't even aware of it. We are on the verge of a imminent change to USB driven computer front ends that will sonically outclass the traditional CD transport and D/A conv... | |
| Speaker cabinet materials. I love my granite cabinet made Ridge Street Audio "Sason" loudspeakers. Every time I compare them to other speakers that use other types of cabinet materials, I swear the bass from the granite speaker sounds much more delineated and has quite a bi... | |
| It is 2008 do you know the best start up speaker Hearing Magnepans has converted more of my "non-audiophile" friends into high end audio enthusiasts than any of my other 13 pairs of speakers that I have ever owned and auditioned for my buddies. I think there must be something very special a Magn... |