joe2687
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Best speaker in the $5-10K range. Details below. Thanks for the replies everyone. I would much prefer to be able to travel and listen, but it's a practical impossibility for me right now.I am certainly open to in home audition and don't mind 'investing' a bit in shipping costs.@Marakanetz: I als... | |
Empirical Audio modded DAC1 initial impressions And here are my speaker/heaphone out impressions:Thursday I packed up my mpx3 to send back to Mikhail as I am upgrading to a Supra. Which I figured would give me plenty of time to compare the headphone outs on my stock and modded dac1's.Well, I ha... | |
Empirical Audio modded DAC1 initial impressions Steve posted on head-fi about the pulse transformer:"BTW - the NEW pulse transformer upgrade includes a 75 ohm isolated Canare BNC rather than the 50 ohm BNC that comes on the unit. This isolates the unit and eliminates the ground-noise that you a... | |
Empirical Audio modded DAC1 initial impressions Here is a cut/copy/paste of my weekend impressions as posted at head-fi.org:Empirical Audio modded DAC1 vs. stock DAC1 comparison.Okay everyone, here are the results of my comparison of my stock DAC1 vs. the Empirical Audio modded DAC1 (including ... | |
Empirical Audio modded DAC1 initial impressions from www.empiricalaudio.com:Turbomod - $1050Option 1: Dual op-amp replacement (exc. headphone out) - $300Option 2: Pulse Transformer upgrade - $150Option 3: Knob volume control/headphone output mods - $100Option 4: Superturboclock3 upgrade - $550 |