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Aether Audio Black Box or Nuforce Magic Cube ???
I just got my Magic Cubes without any filters. I hooked one channel up and purposely left the other channel the same as it was; did this quickly while I was struggling to get out of the house this morning. Anyways, the Magic Cube channel sounder l... 
wyred4sound amps
Mapman, I also meant my description of pathologically smooth (very silky) in a good way as well. That along with the pristine clarity makes for some interesting sound from the W4S amps. 
wyred4sound amps
I had the 125 wpc amplifier driven by a hevily modded Airtight tube preamp, a modded Alesis 9600 CD player/recorder going out to Von Schweikert VR5 HSE Anniversary speakers. I used some locally (auto cable engineer) made copper cable (excellent by... 
Enacom speaker filters
I love them on my Talon Korus speakers; they made an immediate and easily noted difference. Much increased smoothness and liquidity. I highly recommed them. 
dcs Purcell upsampler/Delius DAC interface
Well I got the Scarlatti manual off the internet, read the suggested sections, and fixed the problem I had in about 5 minutes. The DAC is now in sync with the wordclock. BMCgoz your advice was particularly helpful. And, again, thanks to all who of... 
dcs Purcell upsampler/Delius DAC interface
Thanks so much for all of your input. I will go back and try my best to deal with this incredibly wonderful sounding, yet quite complex, dcs gear.... 
dcs Purcell upsampler/Delius DAC interface
Chadeffect - I run the signal out from the USB port of the computer into an coverter box that allows me to send the signal to the upsampler with a AES cable. The upsampler is connected to the delius dac with a firewire cable. It is my understandin... 
Who has found happiness giving up on DACs?
No. I found nirvana with a dcs Purcell upsampler and and dcs Delius DAC, both firewire versions, being fed by an iMac computer (my server). I upsample 44.1 to DSD and I am deeply impressed by the sublime, smooth yet detailed, very clean, musically... 
Who makes a good CD recorder?
Agree on the Alesis Masterlink ML 9600. Had mine upgraded by Balanced Power Technology. It is a great CD recorder and a very fine CD player.I am now making CDs on my computer-based system using an iMac with iTunes. Those CDs sound excellent I am n... 
dcs Delius vs dcs Elgarplus DAC?
Wow. You guys are scaring me and my pocketbook. I got the pieces recently on the used Audiogon market. I think for now I will take the advice of Gtfour45 and just enjoy my rig. The key part of this statement, I am sure, is "for now". I listen to m... 
CDP breaks and I move to computer-based...
I have a great iMac set up feeding a dcs purcell upsampler and a dcs delius dac. I had the Ayre C5xemp CD player - a very excellent digital front end with a cavernous sound stage. The computer-based set up I have is better. However, it should be a... 
The CD Player Lie?
Davt, I know how disappointed you are in your hig-powered Kondo gear, especially after it was equaled by Bose. I feel your pain.Shoot me an email, I will gladly take that Kondo junk off your hand for a good low price, lol....... 
Can Mac/PC compete with High End CDT??
Mapman - it was the lead post in this thread that unnerved me a bit given that I just invested a bing chunk of change in the set-up described and also sold my high dollar CD/SACD player........... 
Can Mac/PC compete with High End CDT??
This thread is killing me. I just bought a MAC computer, dcs Delius firwire DAC, and a firewire dcs Purcell upsampler to replace a high end single box CD player. Planning on upsampling regular CD to DSD sine that is the bulk of my collection......... 
Is there a better quality Firewire cable?
I did not bring my reading glasses today so pardon the typos in my prior response.Tbg thanks for your response. I will look into the Granite firewire cables...........Apple makes firewire cable. Anyone have experience with Apple or any other brand...