ksattic
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| Best Speakers for a small Nearfield room, budget at most $10000 (used is also ok) +1 for the Spendor/Chord combo mentioned above. I was using the Spendor D7 + Chord 2650 and now have the Spendor D9 + Chord 3350. Very neutral, not fatiguing, amazing soundstage, and not fussy about positioning. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @wisnon where do you find music that has been mastered in DSD without conversion at some point to/from PCM? I find the biggest issue with DSD is that mastering and production does happen in PCM realm, and conversion/resampling introduces noise. At... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @bar81 very true... I've recently learned that there's only so much you can learn from A/B comparisons. At the end of the day you should spend money on what makes you happy. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @bar81 that's why I believe my ears. :) I had a chance to meet Rob Watts when he was in California two years ago and he went over his DAC technology. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @wisnon I'm fairly new to Audiogon - didn't realise this thread went back to 2014! Will read back.As you say, Chord implement the pulse DAC and filtering in FPGA. Many other manufacturers have FPGAs but I've only even seen them used for filtering ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I'm surprised no one has mentioned Chord yet.The Chord DAVE is the most advanced DAC in the world. It uses an FPGA (field programmable gate array) to implement a proprietary DAC which achieves a noise floor and reproduction accuracy better than an... | |
| Please Critique my Setup and Recommend Upgrade(s) IMO your turntable is your best component, so I'd vote to upgrade to floorstanders for more presence and a beefier amp to match. Get a used pair of Spendor A6 speakers or go for the KEF R500.BTW I'm actually going to listen to your very turntable/... |