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| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD More points of interest on the new Cary Audio DAC with on-board reclocker and separate independent solid state or vacuum tube analog output stages to choose.So many new things to learn about DAC technology :-http://www.caryaudio.com/wp-content/upl... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Here's the next "latest" on the market.http://www.caryaudio.com/products/dmc-600se-digital-music-center/ | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Matt,We are actually in full agreement. When I put up this list :- "1. Cool, dry, lean, thin, fast -> FIR1/2 2. Warm, slow, boomy, laid-back -> SDLY 1/2 3. Balanced - DSD", I meant that the settings to be used depends on the overall sound of... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD "09-06-14: Jon2020 ....I am currently using DSD for Upsampling and OFF for digital filter. It's strange as I am not a dsd diehard but somehow, having gone through all the different combinations, the dsd setting gets it right 90% of the time. This ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Guido,The power of Googlesphere revisited :-http://www.technics.com/sp/global/Cheers! J. | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Has anyone heard the new Berkeley Reference dac? And compared it to any of the top tier models mentioned so far in this thread? | |
| Annie Lennox Fans I downloaded this album from HD tracks and Annie shows that she is truly multi-talented with a bluesy slant. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Thanks for the kind comments. As cliched as it may sound, the proof is in the listening.For the K-01 to perform optimally as a transport alone, the following settings are necessary :-1. Digital out > CD2. Upsampling > ORG3. Digital filter &g... | |
| Tinnitus I often wonder how musicians, rock and classical alike, cope with their daily exposure to high decibels. One would assume that they all have tinnitus to some degree. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD IMHO, the K-01's internal dac is a bit long in the tooth now, as alluded to in another thread. I humbly predict the following results :-1) with the K-01 as transport feeding the well-regarded Overdrive SE dac, the SQ of redbook cd will beat out th... | |
| Vienna Acoustics The Music Teeshot,Where the bass and lower midrange are concerned, The Music cannot be described as thin at all. I would say that when properly set up in the room, the sound is very natural and balanced throughout the audio spectrum.You can of course, tailo... | |
| Wyred 4 Sound W4S DAC-2 DSD Hi Mark,The review of the W4S DAC-2 DSDse in the latest TAS Spring 2015 Buyer's Guide issue by Steven Stone who states that the W4S usb implementation is so good that he can forgo having the EA Off-Ramp 5 usb-spdif converter in the chain. Hope thi... | |
| Vienna Acoustics The Music Hi Guido,I haven't heard the latest iteration of The Music's supertweeter but I am pretty sure both of us continue to utterly enjoy what we still have in our homes. :)J. | |
| Vienna Acoustics The Music Hi Teeshot,I have had The Music speakers for more than 3 years now and am still very happy with them. Before I got them, I auditioned equivalent models from MBL, Dynaudio, Focal and Sonus Faber. The Music delivers better than the others in almost ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Thanks, Almarg.Regards. Jon. |