jon2020
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| 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. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Do look again. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD There is a good review of the Wyred 4 Sound DAC-2 DSDSse in the latest TAS Spring Buyer's Guide issue, with an interesting comparison using the Off-Ramp 5 usb converter in and out of the chain. | |
| NADM51 whit Ifi usb purifier or ifi usb converter I have no experience with the nad dac but have used both the usb iPower and the usb-spif converter, the iLink, to my dac. The iPower splits the usb power from the audio data with a double-headed usb cable. I find both essential in improving sound ... | |
| Esoteric K-01/K-03 Owners Hi Jeffkad,Apologies for my delayed reply - just read your post.1. What kind of PC do you use? -I have stopped using my PC as a source. The hi-res files are transfered to a usb flash drive which is then plugged into the Marantz front panel port2. ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I suppose they can post but they should be civil and professional at all times without resorting to insulting and inflammatory remarks. |