kenn39
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| DACs: Airport Express vs waveterminal vs mini-dac Dollar for dollar, you can't do better than hard drive based transport.Don't know much about the Mac world. Perhaps someone can shed some lights on the particulars in the Mac world, such as how to get bit-perfect digital stream out of a Mac.The on... | |
| DACs: Airport Express vs waveterminal vs mini-dac Too many variables here: is the standalone DAC better than the internal DAC of the CDP? Is the hard drive based system set up properly? Are the sound files on the hard drive ripped properly? Whether and how does the media player/OS re-mix the soun... | |
| Center to match Energy Veritas 2.3i's? I recall reading a review which prefers 2.2 over 2.0 as center speaker. You can probably get a pair of 2.2 and use the other one as back channel in 6.1. | |
| new updates in transports or are they obsolete ? Reprince,Do you have any info on how the Forsell sounds more like analog playback?I can see that a DAC's analog output stage can be tuned to sound "analog". But for a transport to have this effect, the bit stream would have to be modified or "good... | |
| new updates in transports or are they obsolete ? Creek CD50 mk2 uses a computer style transport. It would be interesting to see a review on using the Creek as a transport. | |
| Building a Music server If you really have to go distance, consider Squeezebox or Soundbridge with wired Ethernet or WiFi connection. In addition to going distance, you can remotely control and browse your music selection on their built-in display. | |
| Acappella/Vocal Jazz/Gospel recommendations? Alison Krauss + Union Station - Down to the River to Pray on their Live CD.Trio by Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris | |
| Benchmark DAC 1 or Musical Fidelity Tri Vista? Thanks for sharing your experience.In the ideal world, we should all have a shoot-out among some finalists before buying. In reality, this is often an intelligence gathering and analysis exercise and buying components unheard. | |
| Benchmark DAC 1 or Musical Fidelity Tri Vista? Congrats on finding your digital bliss.In your search, did you audition and form some opinions on the components in your original messages? | |
| Biggest bang: add Behringer or replace CDP? I guess you already know all the good things about DEQ2496. It is a also a very good DAC. If you are a tinkering type, the Behringer will give you the most enjoyment and you may even like its DAC over your CDP.For $1,200, Benchmark DAC1 or TRL/Son... | |
| Substitute for Waveterminal U24 If this is used for the digital output, how does SNR matter?I use Transit for digital output. If you are willing to spend more, there are many Transit-based mods. | |
| Tube preamp for a Bel Canto eVo2 Gen II Noexit, I am very intereted in the result that you end up with.I am looking at getting a tube headphone amp with pre-amp function for my eVo2i. I have found two candidates: Mapletree Ear++ and Cayin HA-1A.Any other suggestions? | |
| 5 CD's on your current "permanent " rotation. Alison Krauss + Union Station: Live, CD1 and CD2Tori Amos: Under the PinkDave Brubeck Quartet: Time OutCincinnati Pops: Chiller | |
| DACs: Airport Express vs waveterminal vs mini-dac Pardales: I was referring to the various stock models from M-Audio and Edirol, and mod versions from Empirical and Redwine. Many have been mentioned earlier in this thread.I have not tried any other than the stock M-Audio Transit. Pairing with a B... | |
| DACs: Airport Express vs waveterminal vs mini-dac I assume the TriVista handles jitter reasonably well. That leaves the question whether you are getting bit-perfect output from motherboard. Are you?There are many external USB to S/PDIF converters, stock or mod, that can do a good job feeding your... |