georgehifi
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| Are DACs superior to top-graded regular CD Players Just to add to what I said above Warmglowingtubesart. Get the best sounding cd player you can get, with a digital input, that way you can use it as a dac as well for computer/server based music, that way you'll have the best of both worlds.Cheers ... | |
| Are DACs superior to top-graded regular CD Players There are disadvantages to having a separate dac/transport. One is the obvious, in having to have a digital interconnect between the two, which itself is never perfect.The other one that not many know of is there are two clocks, one in the transpo... | |
| Vintage DACs. Do they hold up over time? Had to kill some time so I did it for you. TIMBRE TT-1 CS4328 – CS8412-CP is Delta SigmaSONIC FRONTIERS SFD-2 Mk II 2x UA D20400A – PMD100 – UA AES21 is Multibit THRESHOLD DAC 2 2x UA D20400A – PMD100 is MultibitWADIA 25 4 x PCM1702-K + DSP is Mul... | |
| Vintage DACs. Do they hold up over time? If using them for Redbook cd (pcm) replay, then yes if they have true Multibit d/a converters inside.As Multibit converters have "Bit Perfect" conversion for PCM (Redbook)They will give better sound if good ones, than todays Delta Sigma based dacs... | |
| Esoteric K-03X vs Accuphase DP-720 X-03se is a player not a dac. Silly to sell it for a song before you know your going forward in RB sound replay, as the OP said most of his collection is Redbook.I'll buy it Mm622 if all it takes is a song.Cheers George | |
| Esoteric K-03X vs Accuphase DP-720 Think long and hard Mn62, once gone, that's it for the best Redbook you'll get. Here is a small excerpt from a review of it against it's more than double the price big bother separates, (PO5/DO5) that uses Delta Sigma based AKM 32-bit DSD/sacd con... | |
| Esoteric K-03X vs Accuphase DP-720 Mm622 hi, do you listen to mainly Redbook cd's?The reason I ask is that Redbook is PCM and to get "Bit Perfect" conversion the best way, is for it to converted using a Ladder Multibit dacs, which your Esoteric X-03 has, and the best ones at that t... | |
| HDCD Transport to non HDCD dac You can correct me if I'm wrong, but dither is supplied and done at the dac not at the transport.Cheers George | |
| HDCD Transport to non HDCD dac That's weird as even very old dvd or cd rom drives transports in computers send it, as you'll see HDCD come up in the bottom left corner of Widows Media Player that it's a HDCD disc being played. They must have done something pretty weird with the... | |
| HDCD Transport to non HDCD dac There are two Parasound 1100 dacs one does HDCD.PARASOUND D/AC-1000 2 x PCM63P-J – SM5813AP – CS8412-CP It's a DACPARASOUND D/AC-1100 HD 2 x PCM63P-J – PMD100 – CS8412-CP It's a DACCheers George | |
| HDCD Transport to non HDCD dac Any cd "transport" will send HDCD encoded digital out of it's digital output/s, and any cd "player" if it has digital output will also output HDCD.The DAC is the section that has the HDCD chip processing in it.Cheers George | |
| HDCD Transport to non HDCD dac Here is a "little" comparison done on the same dac between the PMD-100 (HDCD) the PMD-200 (HDCD) and the very highly regarded DF-1704(non HDCD)Results Listening Comparison Of Digital Audio Filters"It's worth noting that the differences between fil... | |
| HDCD Transport to non HDCD dac It does make quite a bit of difference, I have a cdp that you can switch it in and out on the fly, that subs it for the very highly regarded DF1704 chip. If I put one of Professor Keith Johnsons "Reference Recordings" on, which are nearly all HDCD... | |
| Amp for a tweeter If you have a very good tweeter, a pure Class A wide bandwidth amp of 5 to 20 watts would be nice. Pass had a project one years ago, that I made which drove the treble panel of Quad ESL57's and a Kelly Decca ribbon as also >12khz http://www.fir... | |
| Best value in pre-owned preamps right now? Not at all Taters, I'm not a shill like many others on Audiogon. I recommend this as probably the cheapest one made that is good quality. If you hit the link, I produce an entirely different approach to a passive attenuator which I believe is even... |