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| Shanling CDT-100 Technical difficulties Dear Brett,Is the disc spinning? If the disc is not spinning make sure the lid for the cd depresses the button on the chassis to activate. Always use the solid state output for test purposes as the tube stage is simply in series with it. This coul... | |
| The best CD Player for the money You forgot the latest DCS gear too! ;)I agree, I have yet to find a tubes source unit that has the bass, dynamics and HF extension to my personal likings.I think alot of old school thinking is still in play with some audiophiles about tubes. The l... | |
| Where to install Superclock3, Transport or DAC? Aftermarket clocking makes the larger difference in the transport and it only makes sense because this where the information is being extracted from the disc and error correction and noise and jitter must be addressed or you will not have optimal ... | |
| Esoteric DV-60 Jsen,The DV50(s) units weight comes from the heavy metal (lol) bottom panel (mostly), and middle top panel and some from the two side panels. When one removes the panels and side covers, the unit is actually pretty light after that point. The new ... | |
| Review: TRL/Sony DVP-NS900V SACD/CDP CD Player Dear Jp,I am glad you are happy with your mods. That is the whole point. Shootout you say...bring it on! RAM would love to participate. Send John a player and let the show begin. By the way, Dave's website does mention there are NO circuit or cloc... | |
| Any good $100 DVD players. Look at the Toshiba SD-6915. It is Universal format 5 disc unit that goes for under $100 new off ebay. A user is selling it as Region Free as well. The 6915 has the similar guts to the Samsung HD-841 and HD-950 in the audio departments. It doesnt ... | |
| Pioneer CD & DVD as Transports Joel,Incorrect. Esoteric does OEM and use the Pioneer Transport and associated DSP servo circuitry in the DV-50 and DV-50S models. This was most likely done because of a price point to meet and for production. This is same transport mechanism that... | |
| Small form factor, budget DACs? Toroid is better than a wall wart no doubt about it there brother, but also optimized battery supply is the very best! (No AC mains noises or time of day fluxuations, no more diodes...switching noises, no more harmonics, noise floor it ultra black... | |
| Small form factor, budget DACs? Good choice!These DAC-AH's are about the best bang for the buck and are cheaply upgraded to sound even so much better.Thanks,Doug | |
| Best DVD Player for Under $200 Mapleleafs,The oppo 971 w/latest firmware beat out the Denon 5910 in the latest testing on the secrets dvd player bnechmark scores. However, I have personally and throughly tested it against the Denon 3910, Pioneer DV-59AVi, Esoteric DV-50S, Panas... | |
| Masrantz Sa-11S1 /w RAM Full upgrade? Dear Lawyerman,Again, soooooo wrong. What is it inside the SA-1 do you understand/feel is so superior electrically versus the sa-11 or even the SCD-1 for that matter? Again, I like both machines in modded form and possible even prefer the SA-1 thu... | |
| Masrantz Sa-11S1 /w RAM Full upgrade? Lawyerman wrote,"Why would you spend almost double for the SA-11 s.1 when it could never reach the pinnacle of the Marantz SA-1 or Esoteric X-01 Limited Edition players." With all due respect...How do you come to this conclusion? Based off listeni... | |
| The best CD Player for the money EastSound CD-E5 Unbelievable for the money!! | |
| Best DVD player with DVI?? It is the best $200 you'll ever spend, the picture it puts out looks like it should cost many thousands of dollars. | |
| Best DVD player with DVI?? OPPO Digital OPDV971H 720p/1080i Upconverting HDTV-Ready DVD Player (also plays DVD-A)The Most Highly Rated DVD Player in The 2005 DVD Player Benchmark Review You will not find another unit better looking, and it also now ties the Denon 5910 on th... |