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| 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... | |
| belt ? or Dental Floss for turntable Or a silk thread.Or a silk thread sprayed with adhesive. | |
| Oppo 105, Oppo 205, or Legacy SACD (Esoteric, Cary CD 306, etc) You might look into an Oppo, either 105 or 103, and rip your SACDs and then use any number of programs to convert to DoP, a lossless conversion to a PCM file that your DAC may be able to use. JRiver, for example, does that seamlessly. | |
| Cambridge 851C vs Oppo 205 Nothing particularly newsworthy here. The Oppos have usually not been considered high performing units, though they are the Swiss Army knives of digital audio; they do a lot of different things.Proving that is the industry of audio mods which as ... | |
| DSD vs PCM .. Truth or Myth @mzkmxcvYou continue to display what you don’t know. In addition to the original DSD recordings currently being made available, hundreds of analog titles have been released as AAD SACDs from companies like RCA, Mercury and EMI. All of their editin... | |
| DSD vs PCM .. Truth or Myth Most SACDs are SQ compromised IMO because they are converted from PCM originals, or PCM intermediate stages even if they are originally recorded in DSD. That is because mastering is a practical impossibility in DSD.So the best sounding SACDs are o... | |
| Have New L.K.S. HM-DA9038 with Oppo95 won't play SACD's, HDMI input on DAC is for 12S data The most complete info on this DAC and possible mods is here:https://www.head-fi.org/threads/l-k-s-audio-mh-da004-dual-es9038pro-dac-van-dammes-double-impact.840...All 1856 posts. Happy reading.Posts about the LKS 004 DAC actually began at the LK... | |
| Have New L.K.S. HM-DA9038 with Oppo95 won't play SACD's, HDMI input on DAC is for 12S data @dhollywood,You can only run SACDs through the LKS (or almost all separate DACs that will accept .dsf files--and not all do) if you rip the SACDs to the .dsf files. Otherwise you will have to run your SACDs through your Oppo and its built in DAC,... | |
| Have New L.K.S. HM-DA9038 with Oppo95 won't play SACD's, HDMI input on DAC is for 12S data @mahler123,The Briston costs about $2000 more than the LKS, Not to mention an extra $250 for its remote control. Really! The LKS has a much more robust power supply and a fully discrete balanced analog section. Comes with a remote. I guess on... | |
| Have New L.K.S. HM-DA9038 with Oppo95 won't play SACD's, HDMI input on DAC is for 12S data Couple of things. There are people that will mod anything, and the spacious layout of the LKS just feeds that hobby. Yet in its un-modded form it has been compared to the very best and the very expensive. The mods being done are quite sophisticate... | |
| Have New L.K.S. HM-DA9038 with Oppo95 won't play SACD's, HDMI input on DAC is for 12S data @dhollywood,I’m the OP on the original LKS thread. Yes the "hdmi" input on the LKS is NOT what we usually think of as hdmi. It is an i2s input. It will not properly receive an ordinary hdmi signal.The problem with playing SACDs is NOT with the LKS... | |
| Audio Additives Stylus Force Gauge inconstantcy @ebm$800 for a stylus scale? How nuts do you think we are? |