kijanki
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| Oppo as transport Yes you cannot get cleaner than clean but you might dirty the signal. Expensive cables use foamed oversized teflon to lower dielectric constant, zero crystal 7N silver or copper, double shileding (foil and braid), have capacitance in order of 5pF/... | |
| Oppo as transport Some DVD players might be not "bit transparent" (with digital volume control etc) while some others like my Sony have absolutely crazy logic (other than that good player). Every time I send command stop, play, open it displays it for 5 sec before ... | |
| Oppo as transport If you use jitter rejecting DACs like Benchmark then DVD player is a good transport - excellent tracking (and cheap). | |
| DAC as an upgrade Mapman - external DACs can play pretty much anything in up to 24bit/192kHz delivered by SPDIF or USB (Benchmark). CDs might be replaced in future by downloads to hard drive bypassing unforunate redbook CD format with limitation of 44kHz carrier. M... | |
| whats a good older hdcd cd player? FMJ-23 used RINGDACs same Dacs used in expensive Elgar. (ARCAM got license for them). Because of production problems (low yield) they switched to regular DACs in next generation. Get one if you still can. Ringdac has 4 current sources built-in tha... | |
| DAC as an upgrade Be careful with used DACs. Old Benchmarks had worse op-amps and other problems. Many companies like Benchmark and I am sure Bel Canto offer free trial at home (30 days in case of Benchmark) - you like it you keep it - if not send it back. Differen... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Thanks Volleyguy. I'm in the process of replacing cheap aluminium dome Vifas with Morel Supreme 110. Now it needs playing time to soften but is already much cleaner (underhung motor). I will decide what to do after break-in and with new interconne... | |
| DAC as an upgrade Mapman - Many DACs these days have built in jitter reduction circuitry allowing to use anything as a transport. I use Benchmark DAC1 with sony DVD player using 75 Ohm coax. Toslink connects my TV to Benchmark and I have still have one more unused ... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Volleyguy - I suspected average performance of Solens but I bypassed them (10% of the value) with REL Audiocap PPT Theta. My review says that they are "clinical" "bright" and "forward" sounding - probably the worst possible cap but your link says ... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Volleyguy - thanks for the link. I don't want to invest too much money in caps since my speakers are temporary. I would probably leave Solens in place and upgrade bad sounding caps(according to review) Audiocap Theta (I use as a bypass 10% of valu... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil Volleyguy - if you don't know this already - on the web side www.humblehomemadehifi.com under Main menu there is "Cap test" where they test and describe sonic impressions of about 24 different caps - including Mundorof oil. I got Solen before read... | |
| Newbie I second the NAD for Paradigms. NADs are on the warm side while Paradigm is the cold one. | |
| How many watts is my system using? Mystang - "I'm using 6 amps when my system is playing music" something doesn't add up - If you use class A amp then your supply power is always the same with or without music but if your amp is class AB then your average power is in order of few w... | |
| Rethinking Listening Fatigue Cwlondon - Sheffield's Kodo Drums are very well recorded on CD - no need for vinyl here. | |
| Wise audio aphorisms It's bad when firefighters come too late (to your class A)but it's much worse when they come too early - Confucius |