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| Parasound's Hint 6's new volume control provides huge sonic advances? I appreciate learning that, and it will be interesting to see whether this feature is really an advance It’s about as much as a sonic improvement over say, the likes of an Alps Blue Velvet (-80db channel balance) as a Dact series/shunt switched r... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC Delta sigma is definitely not the only reference game in town anymore. It never was in my opinion. Just had to be use because of sacd/dsd. It was second rate for doing red book PCM 16/44, 24/96 or DXD conversion.Cheers George | |
| Kef Reference Tweeters-Ferrofluid Replacement I’ve been telling the older Thiel owners this for years now, when they all started complaining about harsh highs.It’s just the Ferofluid drying out and turning into thick paste and making the voice coil bind in the magnet gap, causing non linear d... | |
| Good economical used DAC to hunt down gonglee3I want to upgrade from USB DAC to stand alone ones for a few hundred $ - which older DAC should I hunt down on used market? Go for a good use R2R Theta Audio dac (Mike Moffat designed most of them) and now owns Schiit Audio which has some... | |
| kenwood ka 8100 runs hot when played loud on kef 104 .2 The old Kef 104.2’s (really great speaker when driven correctly) were a beast of a load for an amp, that needed big current from it. Sorry but your KA8100 just isn’t up to it. To do them service those Kef’s would like (staying with integrateds) a ... | |
| A question on some older CD players and the Ultra Analog DAC used in them This is what was inside, but it said the dac chip has it's ID sanded off.Could have been paralleled PCM56 or 63's or AD ones from that era.http://audiogo.ru/spisok-dakov-na-ultraanalog-20400/Cheers George | |
| Replacement of Cary CD player Hmmm, not good if you were charged for this.Cheers George | |
| Amp for SF Concerto Speakers Prefer integrated, open to solid state Look at the Parasound Hint used or the later Hint6 new or used, both are good powerful integrateds designed by John Curl, with phono stages, dac, and have subwoofer output with xover adjustment which could be... | |
| Amp for SF Concerto Speakers Amps not to get are "laid back or dark" sounding ones, as that is how most SF's are voiced, and the two together could put you to sleep while listening.Cheers George | |
| Replacement of Cary CD player rohlim OP Thanks georgehifi,in your response you talked about different Cary player, my player is 308, tube version. This has only coax and toslink digital out. Still makes for a great transport, even with RCA spdif, and that great Philips CDM-1... | |
| What tube pre-amps pair well with Pass amps? billtro What tube pre-amps pair well with Pass amps? Many don’t work with quite a few Pass amps as many Pass amps are low input impedance, and a lot of tube preamps are high’ish output impedances You need to look at output impedance v input impe... | |
| Replacement of Cary CD player I seen many friends/acquaintances that sell up on their huge CD collection to go to servers or streaming. And they get on this never ending merry go round chopping and changing these servers/streamers and the way they connect up in a quest to get ... | |
| Replacement of Cary CD player Replacement of Cary CD player Why?Keep the Cary, super build quality, great remote, it uses the very good and still available cheap Philips CDM12 laser, and it also has RCA, Toslink and AES/EBU digital output the better output to go to dacs.htt... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC EQ would work as well as an R2R DAC Every good R2R dac that I've listened to and measured is flat, and not "like" it's been EQ'd. Good ones have more body to the mids, slam to the dynamics and impact to the bass. They don't EQ for this, it's how... | |
| Thinking about getting a R2R DAC The R-2-R Dac type has enough of it that it seems more believable and real to the ear. As they say, R2R Multibit is "bit perfect", where DS (Delta Sigma) can only give a facsimile.Cheers George |