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| Is a balanced XLR cable inherently less critical than a single ended RCA one? It all depends. When I upgraded my preamp to an ARC Ref 6 and my amp to an ARC 150SE, I tried five or six different XLR’s from Mogami up to Cardas Clear Beyond and they all sounded quite different. Morrow MA6 was the worst sounding, the Mogami was... | |
| Anybody Use an Audio Research Ref 6E? Why do you keep posting questions about preamps in the digital section? | |
| Best SUT For Van Den Hul Crimson Stradivarius cartridge I heard magic today!!I set up Ikeda Kai with MC26L, VPS100 and used smartractor and Analogmagik to setup the cartridge.It was pure magic.The best setup I heard so far!! (my sound memory is not that great!!)I would like to thank @fsonicsmith for le... | |
| Best SUT For Van Den Hul Crimson Stradivarius cartridge Kanchi my friend-you are drowning in high-priced shots in the dark that don't mate well. Imagine trying to decorate your own living room with a mix of post-modern, Danish, Queen Ann, and Victorian furniture, all bought blind because you thought yo... | |
| Devore Fidelity Orangutan O/96 mquery,I was never able to get a lot of depth from the soundstage of the O/93 in auditions (even though they were well away from the back wall). The "wall of sound" seems to be a fairly consistent take on that speaker (though I did find that the i... | |
| Devore Fidelity Orangutan O/96 mquery,I was never able to get a lot of depth from the soundstage of the O/93 in auditions (even though they were well away from the back wall). The "wall of sound" seems to be a fairly consistent take on that speaker (though I did find that the ... | |
| Devore Fidelity Orangutan O/96 I heard O/93’s at Command Performance a while ago. They were fine but they really didn’t draw me in; there was no magic. I’ve never heard the O/96’s, but from the name, the price, and what I’ve read about them, I gather they are a step (or two) up... | |
| Devore Fidelity Orangutan O/96 @masi61 I am in Columbus. I own O/93's and not O/96's but if you ever want to hear the O/93's, just let me know. Don Better up in Cleveland is likely your nearest dealer. I bought mine from him. | |
| McCormack DNA with Schiit Preamp? In my basement workout system I have a Schiit Freya S driving a McCormack DNA.5 Rev C driving restored, re-capped, re-wired Large Advents. The sound is pretty amazing considering the vintage speakers. Tight forceful bass, wide soundstage. No sound... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC @fsonicsmith , that "white paper" from SW1X is pure technical babblegaggery and shockingly ignorant either due to lack of knowledge and/or intentionally. I am not sure what is a worse reason, the former or the latter? So many statements, probably... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC I believe that the following explanation makes a lot of sense;http://sw1xad.co.uk/technology_post/delta-sigma-vs-non-oversampling-r2r-dac-designs/So the readers digest version is that it is all a matter of implementation. Everything matters and si... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC I can’t believe that someone in this thread tried to state that R2R DACs are “bit perfect”, implying that they’re more accurate than Delta Sigma, which is actually the opposite of the truth.This place is a caricature of itself sometimes. I agre... | |
| I've said this before so why can't your open your ears and except the truth? I would accept your knowledge if you knew how to spell "accept". | |
| Upgrade DAC from AMR DP777SE I own the standard version of the DP777. Unlike you I have had no reliability issues but my two analogue rigs (see my profile) blow away the SQ I am getting with an Aurender N100H via WW Starlight Platinum 7 to the DAC. I ordered an SW1X DAC 2 Spe... | |
| "Bridge Over Trouble Water" sounds artificial I keep waiting for this thread to die but it won’t. I grew up in the ’70’s. I confess to having once owned S+G’s album-whichever one had this song on it. When I started college in the fall of ’77, the very first day I had moved into my dorm, I pit... |