jaymark
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| Aether Audio Black Box or Nuforce Magic Cube ??? Actually listened this morning to my system with Magic Cubes installed; heavily modded Audio Van Alstine 250 wpc fet-valve amp (daikom filters on terminals), heavily modded air-tight tube preamp, Alesis ML 9600 Balanced power technology modded CD ... | |
| 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......... |