kijanki
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| Ever Used the Audioquest King Cobra? I've had three AQ ICs before - Ruby, Viper and King Cobra. Viper was more extended (highs and lows) than Ruby with better control and tighter bass while King Cobra was more refined and even slightly more extended on both ends than Viper.Audioquest... | |
| More female vocals "billie holiday. can't believe nobody's mentioned her yet..."- no need to mention her - she's by default | |
| More female vocals I'm surprised nobody mentioned Diane Shuur. Perhaps the greatest jazz vocalist I know (Ella on steroids). I 2nd Diane Washington and Shirley Horn. I have many CDs by Shirley Horn but this is the best one http://www.amazon.com/You-Wont-Forget-Shirl... | |
| Does Apple airport express work well? Pal - According to Stereophile review it is not so great on analog outs and pretty good (low jitter) on optical one. http://www.stereophile.com/digitalprocessors/505apple/If you decide to use it with DAC be sure that your DAC won't cut off few sec... | |
| are subwoofers anti-audiophile? Magfan - thank you for the link. I didn't realize that ocatve down requires 97 keys. | |
| are subwoofers anti-audiophile? Lowest bass string is 41.2Hz. 5 or 6 string bass guitars are used for easy of playing only. Piano goes down to 27Hz (A) but it is not very often used. There are organs and big drums but there are also neighbors.My speakers go down to 30Hz while my... | |
| Do any amps have 6 ohm taps for 6 ohm impedance? Klein_rogge - 200W is only 22% louder than 100W. I drive Rowland with Benchmark DAC1 without preamp. You will find good class D bargains in Wyred4Sound. I don't know Plinus 9200 but it remember it had great reviews. | |
| Why terminations on speaker cable? Newbee - stranded wires should not be tinned (unless done in factory). There are two reasons for that:- Tinned stranded wires break easily, because stress point on the border of isolation is created (solder stiffens wire but stops short of going i... | |
| Do any amps have 6 ohm taps for 6 ohm impedance? Klein_rogge - I use same Hyperions with Rowland Model 102 (class D) amp with great results. | |
| JRDG Capri vs. Parasound JC-1 Macrojack - acoording to this review: http://www.audioenz.co.nz/2007/rowland_capri-102.shtml Capri is a very good match to Model 102 amp and is stronger/better of two. I use JRDG 102 with Benchmark DAC1 and warm sounding speakers (Hyperion HPS-938... | |
| Streaming or long interconnect for better sound? If you decide to go with Airport Express (I did) remember that AE drops clock between songs causing some DACs to cut few seconds of next song before they get back in sync. According to thread: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?icomp&1266... | |
| Oversampling DAC Vs. Non Oversampling? Good to hear from you Vince. | |
| Oversampling DAC Vs. Non Oversampling? Matt - I'm sorry to hear it didn't work for you. No excitement I can understand, as some DACs like Benchmark sound less exciting (or too clean), but poor soundstaging is disturbing (for expensive DAC). Benchmark brings tons of low level details an... | |
| Any Tom Waits Fans? Real Gone is incredible! Insane energy. Try two CDs:Step Right Up - The songs of Tom WaitsNew Coat of Paint - Songs of Tom Waits(both performed by other artists)He is great performer, great composer - great artist. Not too many like him these days. | |
| why use a dac? "I don't think investing in a cdp is risky. Tons of people are trying to offload their cd collections"Wd515 - You're right, I forgot about it. |