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| PS Audio, DSD, Roon: Should I download DSD or 24/96 PCM? At the moment you have a Delta Sigma Dac. Most DSD capable dacs are also Delta Sigma. Stick with the DSD download, don't go 24bit PCM or DXD, unless you have one of the few R2R Mulibit Dacs that can do DSD also, but they are expensive. Here is som... | |
| Opinions requested Be careful, there are no load graphs done on these that I could find, but it’s said the 803’s have a minimum impedance of 3ohms in the bass, which could look similar to the 802’s graph of impedance and -phase anglehttps://www.stereophile.com/image... | |
| System Dissatisfaction - My Own Fault mceljo These speakers you have are said to very similar in their impedance/phase graph to the 826 below,. And this suggest very strongly, that both amps you are using especially the tube, Don’t have the gonad’s to be able to do these speakers just... | |
| Which preamp for a pass labs? mizioa Which preamp for a pass labs? Try a Schiit Freya for a trial period, it’s got all the flavours, passive, solid state, and tube switchable while your listening, your bound to find the right combo for your system.It also has SE or XLR input... | |
| Coming out of the blackhole called work...retirement retired-hank3 posts01-27-2018 4:17pmWelcome to retirement life. No more schedules and “I must get this done by...”. Ah, not quite right. There's always the dreaded fridge list, from the missus.Cheers George | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. PS: Love these older class-a monsters, Mark Levinson ML2 monoblocks, only 25w Class-A into 8 ohms, nothing more, but said to be able to do the "almost" doubling wattage act down to 1ohmhttps://ucarecdn.com/c5da1bf6-48bb-420e-b088-b6dbf0dceb7a/-/sc... | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. I love the sound of well made Class-A.Way back I built some very large pure 100w pure Class-A ones using 20 x Hirel EB/ED 204’s BJT’s per channel and a 5kva transformers 500,000uf per channel, that were a 3 man lift, they were water cooled because... | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. bubba12 OP160 posts01-26-2018 10:07amI’ve sold the Devialet 400. Frankly,I didn’t like it. Doesn’t surprise me, I’ve yet to hear a class-D yet that’s sounded right in the upper mids/highs, either too rolled off, soft, cold or harsh depending on t... | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. bubba12 Why not stick with the Devialet 400 which you have, or the Pass Labs you said you could get? BTW which Pass Labs was it? All are good.Cheers George | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. I've noticed the same approach by a couple of other manufacturers and also found their stereo amps sound more musical than their comparably power monos. Yes a few disadvantages happens with bridging a stereo amp, while you get more 8ohm wattage ... | |
| This is for Georgehifi especially but others can chime in. bubba12 OP156 posts01-25-2018 6:37pmI need opinions on the Odyssey Stratos Extreme mono amps I’ve come across some Odyssey amps, a stereo and the mono-block version of it here in Australia, that a friend bought in who was going to be the Au agent... | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? falconquest332 posts01-25-2018 10:49amGee, and all I’m trying to do is learn about the science behind the Synergistic blue fuse which uses Quantum Inductive Coupling. Can anyone explain that to me in a non-technical manner? This is going to be re... | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? Thinkers want the technical detail and call that the truth. Romantics dismiss that Hang on Elizabeth!, just because one understands the technical side, doesn’t mean your not an "Audiophile" who doesn’t love music also. Because if they didn’t love... | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? onhwy614,007 posts01-25-2018 1:30amBecause usually there is a purely technical reason why some equipment or combination of equipment sounds the way it does. +1 minorl571 posts01-25-2018 6:01amTry designing and building an amplifier or pre-amp or... | |
| Why do many discussions about sonic performance disintegrate into technical discusions? The only way to know the affect on a circuit of a particular part is to build x then take out the part in question, and put in the other part and then listen. Yes, using what before listening? That's right!! the dreaded laws o... |