jb0194
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| dCS Puccini Clock I've had the Scarlatti Upsampler in my system for about 10 days now. It is a wonderful piece, more liquid than the Purcell yet as resolving. I still have a CD based system and cannot comment on the USB input performance, but do use the Scarlatti M... | |
| Esoteric Transports matched with different DA's The P-70 (mine is modded) is phenomenal with dCS Scarlatti gear! | |
| Best high end monitors? It'll be interesting to see if the big RAAL ribbon finds its way into a few high end monitors. | |
| Paganini DAC and transport An alternative is a Scarlatti DAC with an Esoteric transport. The P-70 is compatible with dCS Scarlatti Master Clock and I assume the P-03 and P-01 are as well. I've had both the Scarlatti DAC and Master Clock for about a year. Recently I spent le... | |
| Smooth treble I agree with Ralph that odd-ordered harmonics, distortion in general, should be as low as possible. In the case of multidriver loudspeakers, many (most?) tweeters produce a much higher percentage of both even and odd-ordered distortion at the lowe... | |
| CD player connected directly to Amplifier? I've a DAC w/volume control and mfr (dCS) recommends "direct to amp".I very much prefer system sound interposing a nice tubed linestage. | |
| How to go from RCA to XLR? BAL-TX1 from space-tech-lab dot com. | |
| audionote m3 vs ear868, modwright or herron Have Bill Baker at Bella Extreme assemble the Audio Note Kits L3 with the HiB C-core output trannies and his custom cap "flavoring" (no eletrolytics in the power supply). It mates perfectly with my Atma-Sphere MA-1 OTLs. Output impedance is only 1... | |
| $2500 Tube Amp Recommendations Good choice! | |
| Which tubed pre to "flesh out" my mids??? Audio Note Kits M3 MKII. bellaextreme dot com can assemble one with their own flavor of paasive parts. I'll never part with mine. | |
| Tube rolling my preamp with 6922EH One of the best bargains in NOS 6922s are Tungsrams fromwww dot zeitmann-tubes dot com/I bought from these fellows many times back when they sold on Ebay. They were trustworthy and thir testing was reliable compared with results on my tester. If I... | |
| Two Subwoofers... Comb Effect A reason to place stereo subs as close to mains as possible is the inevitable "leakage" of sound above the crossover level. On paper, a driver contributes 50% to overall spl at crossover frequency and a sub continues to "roll off" above from there... | |
| Ground Loop Issue 427 Nope, the cheapo stuff on Ebay, etc. has nothing in common with the Isomax. Again, no guarantees, but the Jensen's a very high quality item. | |
| PS Audio DLIII Cullen Mod IV versus Benchmark DAC1 Agree with having USB for "futureproofing"I've not heard either DAC, but have a pair of Cullen "Wyred 4 Sound" monoblocks driving my 2 channel stereo subs and a 7 channel driving my HT speakers. The build quality, fit/finish and sound make them we... | |
| Ground Loop Issue 427 Call Jensen Transformers (do a web search) and buy an "Isomax". It'll cost under $200, but also require an additional interconnect pair. They use very high quality isolation transformers. The box is about 3"x5"x1" size.I've found the "Isomax" to s... |