jult52
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| The Emperor DAC has no Clothes Chesebert "To OP, if all you do is dither around $1k stuff, I am not suprised you find no difference among DACs - perhaps you do get what you pay for?"This is earth calling. Your Rolls-Royce has been hand serviced and waxed and is ready for your m... | |
| What do you feel? "In music, the passions enjoy themselves." - F Nietzsche | |
| Metrum Octave Dac experiences Newbie - I'm close to pulling the trigger on one of these things, too. Note my thread on USB/SPDIF interfaces, prompted by this whole question of feeding signal into a NOS DAC like the Metrum.The thread on the Yamamoto DAC evolved into a thread on... | |
| So, what's your audio resolution for 2012? Upgrade my digital front-end.Thoroughly explore first half of the 20th century French and English music. Listen to "Turandot" once and for all. | |
| Building a System around Magnepan Speakers... Jrode - First of all, you have made an excellent decision by going with Magnepan. I use them and think they are special. Don't worry about the room placement for now. They will sound great. Since you are on a pretty tight budget, I would urge you ... | |
| EE Minimax Plus DAC vs. Rega DAC I wanted to bring up a broader issue that I've been wondering about. So the ESS 9018 Sabre Chip is the leading edge of chip technology. In that case:1) Why do non-Sabre components like the Rega DAC and Sabre chip components like both Minimaxes and... | |
| EE Minimax Plus DAC vs. Rega DAC Thanks, Doug. It looks like that Extraction Tool costs all of $4 so it's a worthwhile investment. | |
| Have I mismatched my preamp/amp? I've always heard it as a 10:1 rule and it looks like a mismatch although your ears should be the final guide. But it sure sounds like you don't like your amp. | |
| EE Minimax Plus DAC vs. Rega DAC One other factlet - the Rega DAC has an output impedance of 600 ohms, which is surprisingly high for a ss DAC (info source is Rega itself via dealer). I was actually leaning towards getting one until I saw that spec and have nixed the idea since I... | |
| EE Minimax Plus DAC vs. Rega DAC I just read that Stereomojo DAC shoot out and it was pretty interesting. The Minimax DAC came in second behind the $5k Lampizator. Shakey - what's your reason for doubting the value of their shoot out? | |
| 12 Extremely Disappointing Facts About Popular Mus Funny. It puts into context all the audiophile complaints about people not paying attention to sound quality.Re Barbra Streisand, objectively, I view her as a superior musician to acts like Pearl Jam (every song sounds the same) and Tom Petty, so ... | |
| EE Minimax Plus DAC vs. Rega DAC I just had an opportunity to hear the Minimax Dac Plus on a very good system and I wanted to concur with Rob's opinion that the solid-state output stage was clearly superior to the tube stage. This was not splitting hairs - it was noticeable withi... | |
| How can you tell the quality of the recording? The biggest flaw is treble harshness. Other problems can include boominess, especially in the bass, and timbral distortion that makes the instruments or voices come across as fundamentally different from live sound.Problems with soundstaging are v... | |
| Rega DAC vs. EE Minimax vs. Centrance vs. W4S 2 Aolprodj - Can you provide more info on what you are hearing from the MiniMax Plus? | |
| Former MHDT Havana Lovers: What did you move onto? Doug - I look forward to seeing your comments on other NOS DACs when you have time to do the comparisons. In the meantime, you've really raised my curiosity about the MiniMax. Completely agree about digital cables. They make a big difference. |