georgehifi
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| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD One of the most watched threads fizzled out? Wth? They the "clan" here were doggedly stuck on their views of what sounded best for RedBook CD, which they thought was DS (delta sigma) based units, and they tried every new unit that came along.I ... | |
| A great balanced R2R ladder DAC: Mhdt Lab Balanced Pagoda However, it’s a different kind of chip than delta-sigma DACs. Yes Delta Sigma (DS) is not R2R, it took the place of R2R chips because it was far cheaper to make and it could do sacd and dsd. But to me it (DS) can’t do PCM Redbok 16/44, 24/96 or DX... | |
| A great balanced R2R ladder DAC: Mhdt Lab Balanced Pagoda Can a R2R DAC also have a chip? I am as usual confused. R2R chip dacs were the old obsolete PCM1702 PCM1704 TDA1541 etc etc, all were stopped being made because the laser trimming of the microscopic R2R resistors, it was too expensive and time c... | |
| Ideas For A Beefy Solid State Amp For Subwoofer Duties I’ve looked at a few pro amps including the Crown XLS2502 2 Channel which puts out a healthy 775w What about 6,000 watts !!!!! for $511 usdhttps://www.storedj.com.au/behringer-nx6000-ultra-lightweight-6000w-class-d-power-amplifier?gclid=EA...Cheer... | |
| Low gain preamp options You usually want to keep the volume toward the high end of its scale. you want to amplify as much as the input signal as possible, not a small portion of it.. then you’re just amplifying mostly noise.. Correct, you want to use as much as possi... | |
| Low gain preamp options I also can get quite loud volume without the preamp. If it's loud enough you don't need more gain.I talked to Roy Mottram at tubes4hifi. We are going to try a buffered passive preamp.No need, you have 50kohm input impedance on your amp, a $49 ... | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Last night another amazing sounding CD uncompressed 1987 issue Elton John "Madman Across the Water" cat no. 825-487-2http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/111069Steer clear of the 2004 re-issue hybrid http://dr.loudness-war.info/album/view/52257... | |
| Audio Research CD6 vs CD9 original and SE versions solobone22 OP I've run a few different CD players into the MSB however they never quite worked for me: ?? I don't think a backwards step (to me) going for those AR's are the answer then.Cheers George | |
| Audio Research CD6 vs CD9 original and SE versions jond Just curious if you're just wanting to play CD’s why don’t you run a transport into your MSB Dac? +1 on that. jond solobone22 If the CD6 and CD8 and CD9 are all PCM 1792. wouldn't bother them the MSB should nail them all.Give me... | |
| Audio Research CD6 vs CD9 original and SE versions To me if both well implemented, it comes down to the type of conversion used, Delta Sigma or R2R Ladder The AR 9 uses PCM1792 dac chips which are Delta Sigma, not my favourite, my fav being the R2R ladder dacs PCM1702 and the even better last made... | |
| Low gain preamp options Most DACs have at least a 2V output which exceeds the input sensitivity of most amps. So unlike a phono input there isn’t a real need for gain in most cases. There’s many phono stages now that have 60db of gain, so no extra gain needed with them ... | |
| A great balanced R2R ladder DAC: Mhdt Lab Balanced Pagoda That's good, I thought being new it would be discrete R2R, I was referring to the new era of killer "discrete" R2R dacs available now, that MSB championed first off the rank over 10 years ago.The Texas PCM-1704's chips in Mhdt haven't been made fo... | |
| A great balanced R2R ladder DAC: Mhdt Lab Balanced Pagoda Real "Discrete" R2R dacs, need twice as many R2R resistors as discrete R2R single ended ones. This is where the expense is.Many just have pseudo single ended to balance opamps on the analogue output stage to get balanced output, so really your bet... | |
| Why would anyone want class AB amp when class A always sounds better ? I might be off here, but class A amps don’t drive lower impedance speakers very well either. Most class A amps aren’t stable into 2 ohm loads. Krell being one Of the exceptions.Sorry your off, one word for both, no.Cheers George | |
| Best skiinny floorstanders Just say’en those ELAC fs 609’s are $21,000 pair, a little morethan the OP’s 8,000 / 12,000 budget.Regarding skinny thats somewhat relative. Yeah but this cdc2 OP is what they go for used. I'd snap these up in a second if in Australia.Could touch ... |