jylee
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| What's the best Sony CD/SACD player? True, the choice of adjectives I used probably was confusing. When I say darker, sometimes I mean tonal balance, and I also use darker to indicate the blacker black background / lower noise floor. For example, when I played Friends of Carlotta on ... | |
| What's the best Sony CD/SACD player? Based on that description, I'd choose the Linn hands down.I tried to be as objective as possible, but my bias was probably showing in my short description. I like the presentation of Linn as well. But I probably have under stated XA5400ES somewhat... | |
| next step for my setup? advice appreciated Tubed DAC is a step closer to the right direction IMHO. Tube buffer, not so much. If you can swing it you should try tubed preamp though, either to replace your Rotel processor, or the one with HT bypass option so it can be integrated to your syst... | |
| What's the best Sony CD/SACD player? I've been burning in my XA5400ES continuously for 100+ hours now. I've heard the most improvement in the first 20-30 hours of the breaking in. The initial impression of etched treble went away after a day or so. I haven't noticed much improvement ... | |
| Getting back into audio and need advice.... I haven't heard Bel Canto DAC1, but I used to own Bel Canto PL-1A and currently own Linn Unidisk. I've recently purchased Sony XA5400ES, and I am amazed how much more detail Sony can bring out of redbook CD. MSRP $1500 and a little over $1000 on e... | |
| I Just Don't Hear It - I wish I did Most people think they have decent hearing. Like Mapman said, it's all relative. Some people will have more sensitive hearing than others. That doesn't mean those with less sensitive hearing have tin ears. | |
| Is Levinson 33 still a reference standard today??? Levinson 33 and 33H are still statement products, and it's really unfair to bring the crappy support for 3xx series capacitor issue to 33 and 33H that do NOT have that issue.However, being a previous owner of 335 that ended up in landfill due to t... | |
| SACD vs RBCD players I've owned several SACD and universal players, with the current incumbent being Unidisk. I've also found that the quality of redbook CD playback on universal players is subpar. That somewhat dictated my listening habit before, as I mainly collecte... | |
| SACD vs RBCD players Let me put it this way. I've had my XA5400ES for several days now, and it's the best sounding CD player I've had. If you are not interested in SACD, then get XA5400ES as a CD player. | |
| What's the best Sony CD/SACD player? I took the delivery of XA5400ES. I have done casual listening + burning in for 5-6 hours today. The material was mainly redbook CD. I understand XA5400ES has long burn in time, so take my preliminary review with a grain of salt.The initial impress... | |
| Krell FPB 400CX vs PASS LABS X-350.5 According to the latest stereophile measurement XA-30.5 clips (1% THD) at around 100W. XA-30.5 or XA-60.5 may be just fine for your use. FWIW I use First Watt F5 at 25Wpc with my Focal Electras in 15 x 20 room, and I have never felt I needed more ... | |
| What's the best Sony CD/SACD player? Bmdduck,I've been using SC without a preamp for a while with good result. The built in volume control is quite good. Bypassing preamp makes the sound very transparent. However, the analog input section is not very good, so if you have other analog... | |
| What's the best Sony CD/SACD player? I'm currently using Unidisk SC. I have XA5400ES on order, so hopefully I should be able to make a direct comparison between two pretty soon. | |
| Surround pre quality Kal,I've read your review of P7 with much interest. I was somewhat surprised at the favorable review as your recent focus was on HDMI based processors and the use of room correction. And I thought you were rather dismissive of analog preamps for M... | |
| Regular DVD on PS3? We watch DVD on PS3 all the time. I haven't noticed anything wrong on the pictures. Mine is older 80GB version with SACD capability. |