elberoth2
Responses from elberoth2
| dCS Puccini Clock Lula,CD-8 and dCS offer very different perspective. Puccini is more transparent of the two, is more forward and has loads of details. CD-8 is much warmer sounding, with lots of texture and much better rendering of soundstage depth. When I first he... | |
| dCS Puccini Clock The CD-7 was only replaced after 4 years - that is an awful lot of time for a CD player. The CD-8 is much better and so is the Puccini. No contest.FYI - the software update for the Puccini has nothing to do with sound quality. | |
| Matching Amp to Wilson Sophia 2 Cipherjuris,I'm using Dartzeel for now. If you haven't heard the Ref 3 with the NOS TungSol Black Plate 6550 from the 1950s in the power supply, then you haven't heard what Ref 3 is capable of. It is really transforms this preamp. | |
| Audio Research Tube AMP Reliability I have been using my ARC Ref3/Ref110 combo for the past 18 monts with no problems whatsoever. Amazing stuff. | |
| dCS Puccini Clock I do not agree with your theory. If dCS was "affraid" of their CD bussines, why would they offer the optional upsampling from external digital inputs feature at the first place ? The Scarlatti upsampler on the other hand, looks to me to be an afte... | |
| dCS Puccini Clock Blackstonejd,I have to agree with you. I have wrongly thought, that the new "upsampling from digital inputs feature" requires additional hardware updates.Since it is only a case of software update, I think this is unfair. | |
| Matching Amp to Wilson Sophia 2 In my search for a new amp for my Verity Parsifals I spent a day listening to the ARC Ref. 110 with the Sophia II's. It was nice but was a bit forward in the upper mids and a little light in the base.This was mostly due to Ref 110 voicing. I used ... | |
| dCS Puccini Clock Nothing wrong with having to pay for extra features that expand units functionality, IMO.If they ask you to pay for software update that fixes bugs etc - that would be another story. | |
| Matching Amp to Wilson Sophia 2 IMO Lamm M1.2 is way overpriced for what it offers. | |
| Matching Amp to Wilson Sophia 2 Pass should do the trick. X-350.5 worked fine in my setup, but my guess is that XA-60.5 should also work. | |
| dCS Puccini Clock This is only for the external inputs. | |
| dCS Puccini Clock I just got this info from dCS:"March 24th will see the release of v1.10 software update for Puccini Player that provides a number of enhancements to Puccini Player. All dCS distributors will be sent copies of this update disc for the Puccini users... | |
| Audio Research Ref: CD8 I have no bloody idea. Looks pretty standard though. IMO any would work. | |
| Audio Research Ref: CD8 Output caps are custom made for ARC. The thick black tape is indeed for vibration damping - the hole player is full of it, not only the caps. | |
| Audio Research Ref: CD8 CD-8 is based on the latest BB PCM1792 chipset. |