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| New vs. old DACs - opinions? Kirkus - You said it right. It is very sad that we don't represent any buying power. | |
| Is it the transport or DAC that enables HDCD/Red? Ghostrider - I read this before but have hard time to understand importance of it and also why wouldn't this be applied to regular redbook CD in downmixing. This is more of preprocessing technique and has nothing to do with HDCD. If I learn that, ... | |
| Optical /Toslink I don't know if quality of toslink makes difference with DacMagic (it doesn't with my Benchmark DAC1) but you can purchase (I did - just in case) very high quality inexpensive glass toslink here:http://www.uniqueproductsonline.com/gltodiopca.html | |
| Is it the transport or DAC that enables HDCD/Red? Nsgarch - thanks for the info. HRx is much cheaper than SACD and contains physical disk - which I like. It is one more argument to connect computer to my Benchmark DAC1. I wouldn't mind buying few record even if the format won't become popular. My... | |
| Is it the transport or DAC that enables HDCD/Red? Ghostrider45 - sorry, it does work. It was just system error.What they describe is just simple stretching of dynamics:"In addition to dynamic decimation filtering, HDCD uses the control data to fit a 20-bit dynamic range into a 16-bit signal. Two ... | |
| Is it the transport or DAC that enables HDCD/Red? Ghostrider45 - link doesn't work | |
| 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... |