lightspeed240
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| parasound zDac owners - quick question Hello Courant,Thanks for the input. Ive tried it totally isolated, in a power conditioner alone, in a separate room, on a different circuit on the breaker box than anything else. Same effect. I havent tried a different house; maybe I will. Again t... | |
| DAC woes - what to do Timo, thanks for then input. I may well try it eventually. | |
| parasound zDac owners - quick question Thanks for the feedback.So it seems its possible to get one that doesnt hum, but at least Im not the only one.I dont have any dimmers in my house, nor do I typically have any video sources or displays powered up, except my PC. I may try unplugging... | |
| DAC woes - what to do Elevick, thanks for the offer, but Ill pass. I do agree that, after reading their site, the gungnir would be the one to get.I considered getting one to demo, but unfortunately, after visiting their site, I just couldnt align with their ethos enoug... | |
| parasound zDac owners - quick question Hi beewaxThanks for the response. Im glad to hear that you have avoided the issue. I would agree that I probably have bad power. I have 2 zamp v3's, both of which hum (one isnt loud.) But I have 4 other amps with toroid transformers, and none of t... | |
| DAC woes - what to do Greetings,So Ive made a determination after a long weekend of listening to these various things.The benchmark is the "best" dac Ive heard thus far. It is the most accurate at rendering data into sound. Its quite a treat, most of the time. Its espe... | |
| DAC woes - what to do Loftarasa - cool on the NAD. Direct to amp seems like best option. Im going to play with the dac1 like that too. Im just wondering if this little volume pot on the dac1 is cleaner than running it through a really sterile preamp like mine. Ill prob... | |
| DAC woes - what to do Hello, thanks again for the feedback.Roxy, I didnt read anything too egregious in your response, I just thought it was funny (it was.) I definitely appreciate your experience with the audio note. Again, its a super cool piece of equipment.The new ... | |
| DAC woes - what to do I just thought of something... If I buy a bryston for this shoot-out, Ill have over $5k in dacs laying around. Yes, all but one will be returned (maybe keep 2...for the price, I may keep the parasound zdac for a nice headphone setup, regardless.)F... | |
| DAC woes - what to do Erikminer - I just read about the direct stream DAC. Looks impressive. It appears to work much like the m51 though...although it also appears to process DSD...What makes it 3x the price I wonder?As with the m51, I think that conversion should elim... | |
| DAC woes - what to do A couple of other comments (my last post got seriously bloated.)Timrhu... I looked at the nuwave reviews online, and it did seem nice. Unfortunately, I do have a full-time job, and I just dont have the time to review all the good ones. Same for th... | |
| DAC woes - what to do Greetings everyone... Thanks for all the responses on this. Definitely good to think about.I got a wild hair today and I bought a benchmark. It will be here tomorrow.I also bought a parasound zdac, as I have to give my historically favorite brand ... | |
| DAC woes - what to do @ chayro There are a lot of areas in-which you dont get more just because you pay for. Directly to your point...I had an older $2k multi-format player that sounded "worse" to me with CD than a $300 NAD CD-only player. I agree with you that possibl... | |
| DAC woes - what to do BTW, Roxy... If youd like to loan me your Audio Note, Ill send you my address for shipping. Ill even insure it :)Oh... While I try to avoid arguments and brand bashing in forums... Dweller... I have nothing against Rega, except two of the two Rega... | |
| DAC woes - what to do LOL @ Roxy's last post.People have their own opinions, thats fine.IMO, the "magic" is still in the analog output section. I dont think a 32 bit sabre can decode 16 bit PCM any better or more accurately than a TDA1541 can. If you dont have errors, ... |