kthomas
Responses from kthomas
| Would You Pay $9.95 For Satillite Radio No. I'm assuming the quality and content of this package would be similar to what you get on DirecTV or Dish with the commercial-free music channels, and I don't find them all that compelling compared to my own CD collection. I have the CD changer... | |
| PC to ext. DAC? Onkyo has announced a new product that is an external DAC for the computer connected via USB port. I think retail is a few hundred bucks, so it's not exactly cheap, but it's a step in the right direction as far as connectivity of a computer and a ... | |
| Amp for Dynaudio: Pass Aleph 3 is OK? How much power does the Aleph 3 have? I would concur with Dynaudio's statement that you can never have too much power - the Dyn's love it! If you're willing to live with a class A amp (from a heat-generation perspective), the KSA-50S is probably a... | |
| What Does It Take to be an Audiophile? Craig - You hit on one of the things that prompted my questions in the first place - is being into "hi-end audio" synonomous with being an audiophile? I think they're related but not equivalent.For me personally, being an audiophile means having a... | |
| Classe SSP-30 vs. used Lex MC-1 Not at all familiar with the Classe except for a review I've read or two. You can get good prices on used MC-1's right now, with better prices undoubtedly coming when the new MC-12's come out and the trade-in program starts.No question in my mind ... | |
| Krell HTS vs Proceed AVP Of course, you can pick up an MC-1 or an AVP for less than $3K used now, with new models coming out, and the HTS2 is $6500 retail without many on the used market yet. Right now, without extensive auditioning, I'd want the HTS2 too, but you have to... | |
| CD Transports: Data Drops Etc... It's the framing error on a UART model that I have in mind for this data transfer too. Maybe that's the wrong mental model, and when I get the right mental model it'll be clearer to me. Certainly, one problem with digital audio playback is that th... | |
| Cheap transport ?? I'd buy a used Sony DVP-7700 - an excellent DVD player and CD transport. It plays CDRs as well. It'll cost a bit more than $300, but you'll get excellent performance on both fronts. -Kirk | |
| CD Transports: Data Drops Etc... Aragain - You're definitely right that reading the bits from a CD is different than feeding them to a DAC with the proper timing, but feeding the DAC isn't a whole lot different than feeding the mechanics to write data to a hard drive, and that's ... | |
| CD Transports: Data Drops Etc... Some of this is a question I have tried to understand the answer to for a long time, to no avail. It sounds trite (or obvious) to say that the job of transport is to read the data on the CD and deliver it faithfully to the destination, in the case... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Clearly there must be many in this category - during a recent visit to the one local audio shop worth visiting, they told me they had pre-sold about 10 of the upcoming Krell DVD players at $9K retail. They reiterated several times that they can't ... | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? I've attempted (successfully, I think) to get my wife used to the fact that gear is going to occassionally come and go, that the experimentation is part of the fun, and that just because boxes show up occassionally doesn't mean that it's all expen... | |
| Stereophile "coverage" I liked the coverage of the Denon receiver, the computer speakers, and especially the sound cards - I had no real interest in purchasing the first two, and only a modest interest in the last one, but I was very interested to see how experienced re... | |
| Stereophile "coverage" My original intent wasn't to bitch and certainly wasn't to suggest any sort of conspiracy. I like the magazine, I read about 90% of the content of most issues, and think that for $1 an issue it's an excellent entertainment value. I was interested ... | |
| Have you "lied" to yourself? Felthove - two problems with getting many responses to your main question. First, a lot of the people on this site utilize the buy-used approach to trying things out, knowing that they can get out relatively cheaply if it doesn't work out. Hence, ... |