exlibris
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| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Pardales,What transport did you own prior to going with the hard-drive system?In my, very limited, experience there is something to be gained by ripping a CD but there are also some things that get lost: 1. low-level ambient detail and venue cues2... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Branimir,I certainly don't believe everything I read; including what I read in Stereophile and TAS. I'm not familiar with John Potis. Do you find the reviews on 6moons and PF to be less objective than those in Stereophile and TAS? I take them all ... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective In his 6moons.com review of the Zero One "Ti48" hard-drive based music server, John Potis said it performed better than has regular transport, the Accustic Arts Drive 1. | |
| How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck? Tbg,Yes, that is me. The modified unit has an outboard power supply (transformer-based) and a second power supply installed in the unit itself. The original switch-mode power supply has been removed. This allows one to disconnected or remove the f... | |
| EMM Lab DCC2 & CDSD Better connection? In my system (using the SACD 1000 and DCC2) the ST Glass cables are incredibly inferior to the Stealth Varidig Sextet AES/EBU cable. My guess is that this will prove to be the case using the CDSD as well. | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Teajay,Can you give me a heads-up on how this cable changed as it broke in and when it stopped changing?I'm so happy with how it sounds that I really don't want it to change at all. | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Teajay,I received the Stealth cable today and put it between my EMM gear, in place of the recommended EMM "ST Glass" cables.All that I will say for now is: WOW!I'll burn it in for 3 days (if it doesn't change at all that will be just fine with me). | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective APL Hi-Fi has a new, cost-no-object model out: the "NWO-1".It is based on the Teac Esoteric UX-1.Maybe someone here will get a chance to hear it at CES and provide a short review? | |
| How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck? Tbg,I burned 5 CDs on George's black discs prior to modifying the unit. My comments refer to these 5 CDs and to the CDs I've made with my modified unit. | |
| How come there is no thread on the RealityCheck? After listening to a number of live recordings I am reconsidering my blanket position on the duplicate CDs.Tvad identified... "two definitions of "air" that are bandied about on Audiogon. One means blackness, or silence, between instruments and vo... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Teajay,I believe he was using the Wyetech Topaz amp (or monoblocks?). I can't remember the name of the speakers. His stuff is always changing because he is a reviewer.What preamp finished number 2 after your auditions?I agree with you regarding th... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Branimir,I look forward to your review of the EMM gear.Teajay,Some bad news: the Sextet cable has yet to arrive and I have to give the AA DAC back to the owner this evening. There is a good chance that I can get the AA gear and the Sextet together... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Branimir,I took my gear to a friend's house and we listened to both front ends through a Wyetech Labs 'Opal' linestage.Have you ever had the EMM DCC2/CDSD in your system and compared it to your Weiss combo (or the Esoteric)? | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Branimir,I liked the Prestige better than my set-up on Redbook. The separation of images was better and the images were more real. My gear was thinner and more two-dimensional.I liked my set-up better than the Prestige on SACD for the exact same r... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Teajay,Thanks. The Stealth cable has not arrived yet. Hopefully it will be there when I get home from work.The AA is sounding much better. As it is, I could live with either my set-up or the AA. Your characterization of the AA is accurate. The AA ... |