melm
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| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? @lewm wrote:" I would point out that the modern trend in the most advanced belt-drive designs is to have an outboard motor controller. A subset of those devices incorporate a feedback mechanism that transmits platter speed errors back to the contr... | |
| Why According to some Turntable extremists Pitch Control and Direct Drive is Sacrilege? Michael Fremer has written, and I agree:"Regulating a direct-drive motor's speed with a phase-locked loop produces tight speed control and measurably low levels of wow and flutter, but the motor's constant, ultra-high-speed hunting and pecking as ... | |
| OPPO 105; how to beat it and at what price? My $.02. Rather than modify anything, find yourself a good separate DAC. You have many to choose from and a lot of opinions as well. For the time being, for your PCM music you will use the digital output of your Oppo and play through the separate ... | |
| Sabre dacs versus other dacs One can give you the facts. But if you have beliefs that are generated by high retail prices you are at the mercy of the manufacturers.I was writing about the Mytek Brooklyn+ which retails for about $2400. Though Mytek gives its products a USA cac... | |
| Sabre dacs versus other dacs Like nonoise says, it's all in the implementation. You ask about Mytek. IMO, poor quality low cost power supplies. Analog chips. At their prices, not for me. | |
| how do you know if you need a dac ? @toyo18How do you know that you need a DAC? that's easy.I have come the same route, that is, from vinyl.You know you need a DAC when you find that, no matter what you have invested in your digital set-up, you find yourself returning almost all of... | |
| First Turntable - Direct drive or Belt drive? @lewm The OP says he wants an LP system that "provides a music experience that excels what my current ARC CD-7 tube CD player could offer."I don't know anything about the OP's DAC except that it costs about $9000. [I also know that the correlatio... | |
| First Turntable - Direct drive or Belt drive? This may not be the answer you want.I am a vinyl lover who has a first rate set-up, I think, and a large record collection. I also think I'm a critical listener.After many years of being disappointed in digital play-back, I have discovered, in th... | |
| Confused About Relative Sonic Impact of DAC VS. Transport The best transport is no transport. Rip your disks and let your DAC play at its best. | |
| Sorry to ask this SACD question, but Jim,The final answer is that you cannot do what you want to do with the units you have.The license from Sony for SACD prohibits a digital output (as for into an external DAC) except for digital output through an HDMI cable to a device (like the Br... | |
| Considering a new SACD Player @yyzsantabarbara If you're not familiar with ripping SACDs, do a search. There's a lot of information out there. Google is your friend. To answer directly the needed software is from Sonore and is free. But you need to know more than that. | |
| Considering a new SACD Player As for state of the art SACD, I would not argue in favor of the 20+ year old Sony, impressive as that unit was.State of the art today is probably ripping SACD files and playing them through a modern DAC that will accept the .dsf files. Limited th... | |
| At what point is an external D/A converter warranted or beneficial I think all this talk about AC power and better wires is beside the point.I think I was in a similar situation. I listen mostly to classical music and had a hard time getting a digital system to sound anywhere close to as good as my analog. Clas... | |
| UPGRADE FROM VPI SCOUTMASTER In its basics it may not be.The base of the Scoutmaster is much heavier than the Prime. It has the 300 rpm motor, same as the Prime. It comes with an acrylic platter. Some, but not all, prefer the acrylic platter to the aluminum one on the Prim... | |
| Is a CD Transport the Best Digital Source? I found that ripped CDs played from a hard disk or NAS through a laptop to a stand alone DAC sounded better than CDs played through an Oppo 105 to the same DAC. But YMMV. It’s always system synergy. And, of course, there's always the joy of ripped... |