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| Better CD Sound: The Search I sold my Integra CDC-3.4 II here. Kept the Yamaha DVD-C961 (plays SACDs) found out about/bought a lightly used SONY SCD-5400ES, (surprised nobody mentioned it). Upscales CD's to DSD#s, and SACD out without PCM conversion. https://forum.audiog... | |
| Sony SACD Player SCD-XA5400ES; YAY or NAY? After my Denon 'lost the spring' Humiliation, Mr. Fixit goes for Redemption. I just bought a non-working Integra CDC-3.4 Mark II for $53. delivered. (a hospital, they are unable to test things). I have the remote. | |
| Is this amount of record/tonearm bobbing "normal" platter cover is definitely rising/lowering could be it, or primary platter below. remove it, check primary platter, warped, misaligned? make a vertical grid to view thru or, buy one of these https://www.ebay.com/itm/174856306267?_trkparms=is... | |
| Five year plan: downsizing downsize to: sources + 2 pieces + speakers. get thee a McIntosh mx110z, a wonderful tube tuner/preamp. have seller ship it directly to Audio Classics for a once over including new gold plated rca jack panels, then to you. Modafferi said there w... | |
| Sony SACD Player SCD-XA5400ES; YAY or NAY? for what it's worth, fm service manual, an 8 oversampling digital filter is shown in the signal path, pg 39, IC202 file:///G:/23%20DOCS%202021/audio%20related/cd%20players/new%20cd%20player/sony%20scd-xa5400es/SONY_SCD-XA5400ES_Service_Manual.pdf... | |
| Sony SACD Player SCD-XA5400ES; YAY or NAY? Thanks Everyone, I just bought a very lightly used Sony SCD-XA5400ES because: 1. Multiple DACs 2. Dedicated Lasers for SACD and CD 3. SACD DSD/DAC/Analog without a PCM intermediate step. 4. It MAY (no consensus) upscale CD's to SACD #s "an 8... | |
| Where/what is the best place to sell used components I have successfully bought and sold used: McIntosh, Carver, Tandberg, Luxman, Denon, Yamaha, Onkyo, B&W, Klipsch, Mitsubishi, Technics, Fisher ... Once you have photos and description, listing several places is easy. listed/found/bought/sold... | |
| Newbie Needs Assistance Give yourself the gift of efficient full range speakers, sized for your space, which is _____? That will avoid the NEED for subs (cost/placement/blend issues). Will also keep your power needs lower. smaller power needs = less money, less size/he... | |
| Upgrade B&W CM4 to what? Vintage speakers like mine, the crossovers were designed with L-Pads at mid-attenuation, which allowed boosting or cutting the mids relative to the woofer and boosting or cutting the highs relative to the mids. I just used a sound meter and a pro’... | |
| Sony SACD Player SCD-XA5400ES; YAY or NAY? Balanced to avoid problems in long complicated runs backstage, ok. home, a 1 meter cable, no interference ever with anything, HOW can a balanced VERSION of Analog (after all processing) be better??? | |
| Sony SACD Player SCD-XA5400ES; YAY or NAY? thanks generally, I will comment to specifics later, please remember, I don't/won't stream, it's just not for me. I am the one who started 'upgrade CD to SACD', (I found that from stereophile, below) so I am posting some of what I found online: ... | |
| Dumb Question: How do you insert a youtube video in a post. Open video on youtube. (I pause it). copy the link at the address bar up top open a response box here Paste, the video magically appears. | |
| Another turntable don’t forget about a dust cover chakster has/had two of these beautiful Luxman PD444 Two Arm TT’s, https://www.ebay.com/itm/154633905385?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item2400e624e9:g:iWoAAOSwt0phVxrY&amdata=enc%3AAQAGAAACsPYe5NmHp%252... | |
| Better CD Sound: The Search Luxman D-03X Digital Player uses: Dual Monaural D-to-A converters LUXMAN engineers selected a pair of Texas Instruments 32-bit PCM1795 digital-to-analog converters to process digital signals with remarkable precision. Separating left and right c... | |
| Better CD Sound: The Search I found/think, after the DAC(s) it really is the combo of an OEM's bag-o-tricks (over ... up.... re-..., anti... ) you 'prefer', why I finally found something I prefer to prior Sony which I preferred over many. Still thinking about SACD DSD out t... |