kijanki
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| New vs. old DACs - opinions? Kirkus - I have more experience with components than audio but components such as op-amp for instance made long journey in last 20 years. Currently they cost more than before but if you calculate price in dollars per MHz of bandwidth or offset dri... | |
| Is it the transport or DAC that enables HDCD/Red? Bob - do you have ability to play HDCD in non-HDCD mode (redbook)? How does it sound?You can probably guess my intentions - I'm trying to find what killed the standard (it's dead - isn't it?). | |
| Anyone use a DVD player as a front end? Bob - that's great idea but I don't have any good quality transport. The other player I have (Cambridge CD4SE) uses standard Phillips CDM12 mechanism.Idea is great because audio is very mental/suggestive and if you have very expensive transport an... | |
| Is it the transport or DAC that enables HDCD/Red? Ghostrider45 - All CDs are made from higher number of bits from master tapes thru decimation to 16bit/44.1kHz. Bit nr 16 (LSB) switches dynamic range of the other bits but it cannot play well on redbook CD player since it has no way of knowing wha... | |
| Anyone use a DVD player as a front end? Everest_audio I can only speak about Benchmark. Its jitter bandwidth is 3Hz and at frequencies of interest (kHz) has way over 100dB of suppression. Benchmark tested it with 1000' of digital cable and couldn't hear any difference. People that have ... | |
| New vs. old DACs - opinions? Keith - I'm sure your DAC is great sounding and I noticed that it gained Stereophile class A recommendation. It just needs good transport to show its full potential (and good digital cable). Benchmark has such strong jitter suppression that not on... | |
| New vs. old DACs - opinions? On Benchmark forum people tried DAC1 with different transports and only few stated that they noticed faint difference (placebo effect?).My point was to try first, before buying expensive transport and feeling stupid afterward when cheap DVD perfor... | |
| Anyone use a DVD player as a front end? Transport quality doesn't make any difference with upsampling DACs like Benchmark DAC1. I use Benchmark DAC1 with $70 Sony DVD player with great results. DVD players alone have history of being bad CD players since their main purpose is different ... | |
| Is it the transport or DAC that enables HDCD/Red? Bob - did you compare HDCD to exactly same Redbook. I'm asking since I noticed that only great sounding mixes ended up as HDCD creating impression of great sound in general. Do you know of any poor recordings on HDCD?I don't have any experience wi... | |
| New vs. old DACs - opinions? "I always recommend getting a great transport first" - why would you buy transport first not knowing what type of DAC you'll end up with. Fancy transport with upsampling DACs like Benchmark DAC1 or Bel Canto DAC3 is a waste of money since all tran... | |
| New vs. old DACs - opinions? Stanwall - you mentioned your DAC playing at 96kHz better than 192kHz. It is because every DAC chip has lower THD at 100kHz than 192kHz update rate. For that very reason Benchmark decided to update only at 110kHz output DAC chip that is capable of... | |
| CD's in DVD players a compromise? Hifiharv - DVD players usually are not great as CD players because their main function is DVD playback (but have great tracking). If you combine cheap DVD player with jitter rejecting DAC like Benchmark DAC1 you'll become independent of the transp... | |
| New vs. old DACs - opinions? Some new DACs like Benchmark DAC1 do asynchronous upsampling with very strong jitter rejection. They sound great with any transport and any digital cable. It is very flexible (I use DVD player), allows long runs of digital cable or connection to l... | |
| I am sick of cables Mmike - I finally got it (I'm slow). I think we agreed there is some correlation. | |
| DAC vs. New CDP Swanny - these upsampling DACs have so much jitter rejection that cables or transport don't matter and your Bel Canto confirms this. The only type of transport that will sound different is the one that is not "bit transparent" by means of DSP proc... |