fleschler
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| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. I've been reading on line concerning absolute versus inverted polarity. Let's say my CDs are mostly (92%) inverted polarity. They sound great. Why? Maybe my equipment, speakers and/or CD player make polarity inversions whose end result inverts... | |
| Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat No, I told her and I purchased a dozen of them. She loves the improved bass and dynamics on the TV system. as well as cleaner sound with greater depth of image. We enjoy season opera tickets and an occasional heavy metal recording of hers at home ... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. The 3 box set of 180 RCA Living Stereo CDs were remastered and sound fantastic overall. On the level of the Mercury CDs. Also, the Heifetz/Piatagorsky set sounds amazing. Also the Friedman, Browning and Dorfmann sets are very fine listening. T... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. Polarity of a few recordingsSome Correctly phased recordings:Rickie Lee Jones Pop PopJulia Fordham SweptEnya WatermarkBela Fleck UFO TOFUThree Blind Mice CD’sReferenc... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. So many recordings were made or mastered in reverse polarity. Here's an excellent expose of polarity issues pertaining to both equipment and recordings. https://iamyuanwu.wordpress.com/audio/audio-direction-ltd-adl/adl-absolute-polarity/Equipmen... | |
| Perfect Path Technologies: Omega E mat Just one E-Mat on my main power box improved the Sony 4K 75" picture and associated sound components. My wife said the E-Mat is a keeper in not those words. | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. As to inverted polarity, I've written several times in these forums concerning recording polarities which can often be wrong, especially for multiple instruments. These can be heard in many Mercury Living Presence recordings of pop engineered by ... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. Stereophile F...d Up on their review of the EAR Acute Classic, beginning with a defective unit (overdriving inputs with a 6 volt output) that sounded terrible, bright and brittle. They did not review the prior units. Everyone else reviewed vario... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. Does anyone know whether the EAR Acute which uses a Wolfson DAC is R2R or sigma-delta? | |
| If you want to get the best of your transport, try this. Buckwheat pillows are no laugh. Some high enders use them as well. Just try one under tube gear and see how much better the equipment sounds than with the built-in footers. The worst sounding footers were Magico Qs, at $1400 for a set, they s l... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. http://www.earyoshino.com/images/Reviews/HiFiChoice_Oct_2016.pdf The Stereophile review was based on a defective unit that had a 6v hot output rather than a 2v which resulted in distortion. It was sent back repaired and the reviewer grungingly ... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. breezer - Since 2006, I've been using an EAR Acute CD player. It has large D getter, earliest version Amperex 6922 tubes, a seriously upgraded power cord and sits on Stillpoints Ultra-minis. Now on their fourth version, my original Acute sells ... | |
| If you want to get the best of your transport, try this. I've tried about a dozen different isolation/vibration devices, mostly high end types. I use mostly Stillpoints under my tube equipment and isolation transformer. Which Stillpoint model was dependent on the component and often the Ultra Minis we... | |
| High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it. I hope that CDs will also hit a revival life LPs. I have 7,000 CDs. However, currently there are CDs that sell for $100s each. Those are the Kevin Grey/Steve Hoffman CDs especially gold DCC CDs. I also favor Japanese jazz CDs from the 1980s wh... | |
| CD Got Absolutely Crushed By Vinyl I did not know that the seller could not leave negative feedback after the order was paid for. I've been threatened twice with negative feedback after telling the seller that the record was in garbage condition (one looked fine but had one channe... |