golden_ears
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| What cd player should I buy? You are going to get a million different suggestions (if any at all ;-) which may not be all that helpful in the long run. They are just other peoples' subjective, and usually biased, opinions. You have to do it the hard way - the best way - get o... | |
| strange hiss problem Are you using balanced cables between them or single-ended? (rca) YBA had a nasty habit in the past of putting "balanced" aes/ebu outputs on their CD players, but they didn't have a truly balanced (differential?) circuit. So, when you try to use b... | |
| Audio Grade Fuse, Anyone? Srajan at 6 Moons showed a photo and talked about some new gold audio fuses from "Isoclean Power" in his CES report, pages 6-8: http://www.sixmoons.com/industryfeatures/ces05/ces_8.html | |
| Best and Worst sound at the CES Show 2004 Avantgarde had dumped the Zanden for an Audio Aero Capitole when I visited the room. | |
| UPS strikes again I found this on an Audio company's website:We at ( company name) refuse to initiate any shipments with UPS for our business or privately. It is our experience that UPS employees are brutal, careless and negligent in their handling of packages, and... | |
| Gallo reference /TAS vs Me Do they have a matching centre speaker for the Ref 3's yet? I'm thinking of using them in a multi-channel system. | |
| Audio Aero Prima DAC Renaat,Okay, it sounds like your unit should be finished breaking-in, and since you're not running through a preamp, there's no mis-match or overload going on.Power filtering is always a good idea. There is a lot of radio frequency interference an... | |
| Audio Aero Prima DAC Mattheus,In the interests of helping you with your headache....1) Are you using the DAC as your preamp, or are you running it through another preamp?2)Are you using filtered power or is it just plugged into the wall?3)Also, how many hours were on ... | |
| which budget DVD player for output to DAC? The problem with "budget" dvd players is that they are built poorly. They use cheap parts, flimsy transports and they weigh about six pounds. Any half-decent CD player, even an old one with a quality transport mechanism, will sound better as a tra... | |
| Any superb balanced dacs up to $2,500 used?? Sutts,Given what you said you HAVE owned, (some of the best stuff around) it looks like you're going backwards again. Maybe there's something else wrong in your system that you're blaming your CD player for?SimAudio might give you detail and bass,... | |
| Wadia 860, Levinson & Aero Cap Direct into Amp It's interesting to note that after I suggested that his system is more resolving than yours, your only reply to that is to quote speaker specifications. I was talking about an entire system's ability to play music. If you still have a mass market... | |
| Problems with U.S. Customs - Watch Out It depends on what kind of equipment it is, and where it is made. (in Canada/US, or off-shore, etc.) A lot of duties are lower or gone, due to the Free Trade Agreement. I don't think there are any duties on CD players, but I'm not up-to-date on th... | |
| Wadia 860, Levinson & Aero Cap Direct into Amp Mejames, I was just stating a fact that I know-of, without insulting anyone's hearing ability. (so far)His hearing and experience with various components are great, and his system is far more resolving than the one you appear to have with your Wad... | |
| Wadia 860, Levinson & Aero Cap Direct into Amp I know a guy who had both the upgraded Wadia 861SE and the Audio Aero Capitole for quite a while. He sold the Wadia... | |
| A.A. Capitole..unfortunately not yet..$$$$$$ Don't start second-guessing your whole system just yet. You heard the Capitole in your system and loved it, so you know it'll work. Tweaks come later, you need a major change. So, take the earlier suggestions - dump the MuFi DAC, (forget the BelCa... |