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| Berkeley Audio Design Alpha DAC Owners? Well, I cannot comment on comparison's to stand alone dacs. I will be doing some side by side testing with a friend's benchmark dac1 soon. From what I have heard so far on both CD and digital inputs, I do expect to prefer the sound of the Cary (I ... | |
| Berkeley Audio Design Alpha DAC Owners? Just a reaction to the comment that the dacs give you access to high resolution digital where the CD players don't is not altogether true. Obviously, dcs gear does as do some newer CD players like the Cary Audio 306 Pro and there may be other exam... | |
| In case you haven't seen the new Maggie? Depends on the wife, re: 20.1's. Just had a pair delivered last week and wife thinks they look great! Course, the furniture in the room is cherry with (mostly) black leather and the 20.1's are in cherry (pretty close match) and black. I think I ha... | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac I have no such equipment so I cannot conduct the test. Am happy to learn what you find out, however. I do not claim to be an authority and am only reporting what I have observed and what I am told. Thanks. | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac All I know is what the display on the machines say. However, a friend (who brought is Oppo over to test out the Cary) says he uses a Sound Devices 722 Recorder: http://www.sounddevices.com/products/722.htmThis recorder has 24/192 capability and on... | |
| Weiss Minerva Dac Interesting that you need two cables to get the high bitrates. I have a Cary Audio 306 Pro with digital inputs and it states in the manual that it accepts up to 192 khz 24 bit and will accept digital inputs at the following sample rates: 32khz, 44... | |
| ARC LS26 versus Cary SLP-05 Where and for how much can I get one of those magic tubes?:) | |
| ARC LS26 versus Cary SLP-05 I ended up picking up an ARC Reference 3. Sounds pretty great so far (system set up yesterday) with the only annoyance being that the display on the preamp is noisy (so I set it to be off). Thanks all for the helpful advice. I would love to try th... | |
| What's wrong with Velodyne? Hi Mac,Just fyi, I am pretty happy with my Rel B1. I got it on Audiogon and think it integrates pretty well with very flexible crossovers. I also have an SVS (tho only the PC Plus, not Ultra) which does great in my home theater room upstairs (shak... | |
| Supporting Local Audio Stores are we? Macdad,I would quibble with your analysis as I think $3,000 would be way cheap if dealer cost is $2600. Even $3500 would be a fine price and less profit than I expect they would need to keep the lights on. Still, I don't disagree with the "price f... | |
| Supporting Local Audio Stores are we? I try to, but still buy mostly used. I just bought a pair of speakers from a local store as I got a few points off list and I auditioned and liked the speakers at the store (several times and even brought in some of my own equipment and hooked it ... | |
| Modded SACD player: SACD or Redbook sound best?" Check out sa-cd.net as they have reviews and links for several sites for all sa-cd's currently available. For even better prices, check out mdt.co.uk as the pound is not too strong against the dollar and they run specials that change a lot but som... | |
| Flash report from 2009 T.H.E. Show Yes, a bit more description would be nice. It is frustrating to not have any info especially about the new Maggies.... | |
| ARC LS26 versus Cary SLP-05 Thanks for the comments, Amfibius. Yes, I fully intend to run balanced. It may, for reasons of WAF (or SAF) be necessary to run 15-25 feet from preamp to amps so I will definitely want to be running balanced. It may not, but I don't see any reason... | |
| ARC LS26 versus Cary SLP-05 I am surprised by the landslide voting results thus far! I figured more would say that both are great but for "synergy" get the Cary or some such. Also, the 05 is Cary's top of the line compared to the LS26 which is one down from ARC's top. I gues... |