mapman
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| Should I go to a Benchmark DAC1 pre in my system? Mimberman,Well put.I'm thinking the romance will come from my Ohm speakers in that they have a very natural presentation and are not inherently analytical. The omni design helps "diffuse" sound that might come across as to detailed, strident, or w... | |
| Time to change. But to what? I can always put in a vote for Dynaudio. I own smaller Contour monitors and have heard various larger Dyns. Would concur with others general observations above. Set them up properly in the room, drive them properly with well matched amplification ... | |
| Should I go to a Benchmark DAC1 pre in my system? "Far from it, it is quite remarkable and it may be exactly to your taste."This would be my only concern at this point.The 30 day home trial would work to address this concern for me giving me a chance to find out for myself.My gut feel is that I w... | |
| MBL alternatives Jallen,I would agree with Jallen that, within certain listening parameters, and with either set up correctly, Maggies are a very reasonable alternative to MBL. Having said that, realize that the two are like night and day in regards to how they ac... | |
| Should I go to a Benchmark DAC1 pre in my system? Kijanki,I tend to be a bits is bits kind of guy, but realize clock related timing issues could impact how a DAC applies those bits to generate the analogue waveform. The BEnchmark approach seems to focus on isolating this process from potential ti... | |
| Should I go to a Benchmark DAC1 pre in my system? DNe,Thanks for the input.What exactly is the difference between an active and passive pre-amp anyway?The DAC1 pre is a pre-amp as well as a DAC. Is it active or passive or something else? | |
| Should I go to a Benchmark DAC1 pre in my system? On real problem I might have with the Benchmark DAC1 pre is my dbx dynamic range processor, which is analog and has to have the line level signal fed in an out. Not sure I'd want to part with the DBX. It brings lesser source material with compress... | |
| Should I go to a Benchmark DAC1 pre in my system? Tigerwoodkhorns,The DAC1 pre has a single line level analog input in addition to multiple digital inputs, I believe. I would have to add a separate phono preamp also for my Denon DL103R low output MC cartridge. Suggestions for that anyone?I also h... | |
| Should I go to a Benchmark DAC1 pre in my system? Synergy in the system to match the individual's taste is always the main key I've found.Good to know there is a 30 day trial to find out.I'm not sure if it would work better in my system as just a DAC or as a pre and DAC. I could try it both ways ... | |
| Should I go to a Benchmark DAC1 pre in my system? Benchmark says their DAC design solves the jitter problem associated with all but the best vendor-integrated transport/DAC/clock systems out there, like DCS in a manner that is independent of transport used. Absolute Sound seems to agree that they... | |
| High quality music server on the cheap...sort of "At this point I just can't see investing any serious money into a single disc CD player. "Smart move going to the server with Benchmark DAC. I would expect the Benchmark synergizes well with the ARC Ref 1 to produce a musical and nicely detailed ... | |
| CD recorder? The Alesis looks very nice.Let us know what you find. | |
| High quality music server on the cheap...sort of Ntscdan,One other thing is to make sure you create a backup of the files on your computer drive periodically to some kind of archivable media in case the disk drive(s) should die unexpectedly. You don't want to have to transfer everything again fr... | |
| High quality music server on the cheap...sort of VEry nice. Thanks for sharing your music server architecture.My only question is are the .wav files lossless, in other words are all the bits that can be extracted from the source stored and not compressed in a lossy manner?If not, and everything ... | |
| Seventh Sojourn - The Moody Blues Xiekitchen,Yes, I would agree Seventh Sojourn has aged particularly well. There is nothing I can think of dated about it. The themes of the songs relate to the world and human experience as well today as back then. I have other MFSL LPs but not th... |