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| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD No, I am more concerned about the music's interpretation. G. | |
| Esoteric Grandioso P1/D1 Hi Colekat, I am confident that Esoteric engineering/marketing had a very carefully reasoned process that led them to omit volume control in their latest DAC designs. Whether their decision optimizes the long term success of the product line, or c... | |
| Esoteric Grandioso P1/D1 Hi Colekat, I find it interesting that Esoteric has given up on volume control / attenuators. From a technological point of view, it is possible to design/implement DACs that have extremely graceful volume control and that by themselves do not req... | |
| Esoteric K01: What are the best settings for CD? Jon2020 has reported significantly enhanced DAC performance on K-01 by installing the new USB drivers... Suspects that fixpack might include updated DAC firmware. See:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1412493000&openusid&zz... | |
| Esoteric Grandioso P1/D1 Hi ColeKat, have you tried to drive your amps directly with the Grandioso DACs, without linestage in the signal path? Results? G. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Hmmm, "Fixing" acoustic anomalies by applying subwoofers out of phase to perform destructive low band-pass interference... Fascinating... Sounds like fighting a fire with... Well, fire.Might work to a point. Yet, I am skeptical about the long term... | |
| Esoteric K01: What are the best settings for CD? Hi PhillyB.... I much prefered Sdly_2 with 4X oversampling.... But there is no right nor wrong... Just personal preferences... And this is exactly why these devices offer us user-selectable settings. G. | |
| Jeff Rowland Macro, here are list prices....Capri Series II Stereo Preamplifier $3,950Model 525 Stereo Power Amplifier $4,500Continuum S2 integrated: $9500Richard has indicated that he will be driving M525s directly from his Bricasti M1 DAC, sens line stage. G. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Matt, Raidho speakers tend to like largish rooms, and lots of space behind them... They can be challanging to set up... overexhuberant mid bass is not unheard of.G. | |
| Jeff Rowland Hi Richard, yes you are right... I was missing the obvious... From Bricast M1, it's probably a good idea to go directly into an amp via balanced XLR connections. This would be sub-optimal from Continnuum S2, because its linestage bypass inputs are... | |
| Jeff Rowland Bombaywalla, yes, your post was absolutely wonderful... Tech credit is all yours. G. | |
| Jeff Rowland And the other question that comes to mind is, considering the low impedance of 7Ts....Ask Jeff... What can be a more efficient combination for your speakers.....* A Rowland M625 V1) with a theoretical damping factor of 200 across the board and app... | |
| Esoteric K01: What are the best settings for CD? Hi Dgarretson, what is the list price of the Stanford Research Systems Perf-10 clock? | |
| Esoteric Grandioso P1/D1 Hey Eli, do you mean... Is G. still a suffering audiophile.... And is his better half getting inspired by the young teller in question? The answer is... Definitely yes, and, not sure.... SWMBO has not reached for the yellow pages for a family loye... | |
| Jeff Rowland Richard, if you ask the question above to Jeff, please explain that 7Ts speakers go down to a relatively reasonable 3 Ohms under normal conditions.... 1.5 Ohms may occur only in theory with a bridged amp... You do not want to lead Jeff to believe ... |