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| SACD 2 channel vs Hybrid SACD Mr.Distortion, you misuderstood what I wrote. My point was that record companies are, at present, only releasing SACD's derived from multichannel SOURCES. This rules out excellent two-channel masters (especially classical and jazz) which would gre... | |
| SACD 2 channel vs Hybrid SACD Hybrid means just what Rprince explained: i.e. the disc can be played on a regular redbook CD player, or any SACD player, two channel or multichannel. My beef is that now the damn record companies will ONLY release SACD's that can be mastered from... | |
| How does power cord affect a digital frontend? The greatest improvement with digital gear (Sony SCD 777 ES and Esoteric DV-50) has been with the JPS labs Digital AC. (See Art Dudley's article in the April "Stereophile".) It really works. It takes about a week of continuous use to "break-in", b... | |
| Good Universal Player with Balanced Outs Gpalmer: Neither the Linn Unidisk or the Esoteric DV-50 have firewire outputs. I think the new Sony and the new Denon 9000 do have this feature. | |
| Good Universal Player with Balanced Outs I have auditioned both the Linn Unidisk 1.1 and the Esoteric DV-50. Both have XLR balanced outputs. I bought the DV-50. The DV-50 outperforms the Linn at half the price ($5500.00), and the Linn I have listened to has a number of tracking problems ... | |
| Shostakovich...WHOA Try the Andre Previn recording (on EMI) of Shostakovitch's Symphony #8. It will blow you away! The British issue LP is best, but the CD reissue will do nicely. | |
| 24/192? Yes Dartford, the stereo DVD-A 24/192 does exist! You will find it on 2 or 3 releases of a label called "Surrounded By". Their discs contain both a 24/96 surround mix, and the aformentioned 24/192 version. In order to play the latter, one must sel... | |
| Downloading music from Internet --Pro's/Con's? I would suggest that downloading from the internet, along with the monumental greed of the music industry has led to a miserable state of affairs for the buyer of anything other than "kid music". Where are the CD and record stores we loved to visi... | |
| Anyone listen to the Dodson 218 DAC? My problem with the Dodson 2l8 (and the reason I went in a different direction) is that if you had a 2l7 Mk II D, the upgrade offered would only get you about 30% of the way to a 218. To go to the 218 would involve selling the 217 for about $3500.... | |
| DVD-A/SACD two box solution what do you think? Now that I have my Esoteric DV-50, I can tell you that it is the most versitile, best-sounding digital device I have ever used, and I have lived with a lot of them including converters and CD decks from Levinson, ARC, and Dodson. Its resolution is... | |
| Anyone have, or heard a McIntosh C41? I too will highly recommend the C-2200. I have owned ARC, Levinson, and VAC preamps, and the 2200 outperforms them all. However, I wonder why so few "golden-ears" seem not to like any of the Mac preamps. They favor Hovland, Lamm, Bat and ARC, but ... | |
| Anyone with experience with Cal Audio? I listened to both players before buying a CL-20. As far as I was concerned there was no AUDIO difference between them. The CL-25 has a 10 bit VIDEO converter which has nothing to do with the audio quality of the player. The CL-20 has a 9 bit vide... | |
| SACD/DVD-A Anyone tried Yamaha or Integra? You don't have to buy the 11,000 Linn Unidisk to realize astounding performance on CD, SACD, AND DVD-A. At half the price of the Linn, the Esoteric DV-50 will outperform the majority of CD/SACD players and outboard converters. I know. I bought one... | |
| Cal Delta vs Cal CL-20 I have had a CL-20 for a number of years, and am keeping it in spite of the company's demise. As far as I can tell, it does not play CD-R's, but it does a great job playing CD's and 24/96 DAD's. | |
| DVD-A/SACD two box solution what do you think? Anybody out there heard the Esoteric DV-50? It got a rave in a review online in "Soundstage", and I believe it is scheduled to be reviewed in the August "Stereophile". It is half the price of the Linn Unidisk ($11,000.00), and might be just as goo... |