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| Goertz and Vandesteen It's not a direct comparison but I felt the Goertz were better with my maggies than the Cardas GR, but that was a few systems back. Goertz cable is relatively affordable which is also a plus. I actualy have a spare set that I've kept even though m... | |
| Squeezebox touch sounds better than benchmark dac1 I just got an original (used) Transporter which is identical design save for the front knob and compared to my friends Touch. There was no comparison, the Transporter won hands down when used as Source & DAC, likely due to the improved power s... | |
| WOW; great stuff at THE Show, Newport this weekend One thing that was very disappointing was the band in the courtyard that forced many rooms to shut down their demos. The sound permeated and competed too much for the room demos to work without being compromised by the external sound.Too bad, I wa... | |
| Evolution Acoustics MMMicroOne Man you guys aren't kidding...i heard these at T.H.E. Show in Newport Beach today and they are amazing. One of (if not #1) the best sounding rooms in the show. In the world of $50K speakers, for these to sound this good at this price I'm ecstatic ... | |
| Eventus Audio Metis: Interested In Your Experience Hi Rob,Appreciate your views. I have no personal comparison to those speakers you mention but in the usual good spirited response:I'm sure the SF's and Wilson's would cost a good penny more compared to these so comparison there might be out of sco... | |
| Eventus Audio Metis: Interested In Your Experience It's the channel separation, you can hear when they move left, right, fore, and aft...the separation and movement in relation to the soundstage is fantastic. | |
| USB DAC Recommendation @Face: Nobody said there was an issue with the existing drivers and to be clear it's an issue with all USB DACs right now for anything above 24/96 on Windows and Mac OS X < 10.6. Only Snow Leopard has native USB Audio Class 2 drivers which allo... | |
| Ayre QB9 with a transport First I'll man up by A) saying i was wrong on the Halide Bridge/HiFace option and B) apologizing, I still don't appreciate the original message. Your only option appears to be the mod as Lewinski mentioned which may or may not work. I have a QB9 s... | |
| Eventus Audio Metis: Interested In Your Experience Thanks Adam. This manufacturer is relatively well known in Europe/Asia but they haven't quite received much attention in the states. I'm glad i took the leap of faith so far...will return with additional listening notes as time goes by. | |
| Eventus Audio Metis: Interested In Your Experience Well I've been running them now for about a week but it's still too early for me to give any useful feedback since my DAC (Ayre QB-9) is still burning in at less than 200 hours.That said I'll give some initial impressions...Very detailed high's wi... | |
| USB DAC Recommendation The problem with the W4S are the proprietary drivers needed to run on the source machine vs. the native OS drivers used by Ayre/Wavelength.Changes in operating system framework may require these drivers to be updated which could become problematic. | |
| Ayre QB9 with a transport Marcober...i already answered your question so i think your fairly rude follow up is a bit uncalled for. Why don't you read the manual and the setup instructions on the Ayre site then do a little research. Sorry to be short but it doesn't look lik... | |
| How To Route Streaming Music From iPad 2 to DAC? Just be careful on the AppleTV...I'm not sure on the original but the new ATV2 has a fixed output of 48KHz which for purists will be an issue on upsampling/desampling by the ATV itself and prior to the DAC receiving the signal. This may result in ... | |
| USB DAC Recommendation The Ayre QB9 is plug and play with extremely little setup. Ayre also provides detailed setup for Mac based systems on their website. The current unit is 24/192 and with your setup should adjust on the fly depending on the source content specs. Plu... | |
| How To Route Streaming Music From iPad 2 to DAC? My understanding is the airport express only streams music through the optical port. I don't believe the USB port will allow streaming. |