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| Sell quality turntable to buy top CD player? For just over $1k you can buy an Oppo 105. A very versatile multi format player, you name it, it will play that disc format. Sound quality on Redbook CD is excellent, fantastic for SACD and Blu Ray. But best of all, it has an asynchronous USB B in... | |
| HDTRACKS sample rate Are you using iTunes? | |
| Sheffield Lab Agree, Sheffield Lab made some amazing direct to disc LPs. Who can forget, Thelma Houston I've Got The Music In Me. I remember hearing this LP 30 plus years ago to demonstrate a QUAD system (ELS 53 I believe) and realized, this is it, this is what... | |
| New OPPO DAC/Headphone AMP looks impressive Forgot to add SACD player as well. | |
| New OPPO DAC/Headphone AMP looks impressive If it uses the same DAC as the OPPO 105, why not buy the 105? After all the 105 has a headphone amp built in and a CD/DVD/Blu-ray player included. | |
| John Mayer - Opened My Ears If you really want to see/hear how good John Mayer is, try the blu-ray recording of "Queen of California" on the 2013 Crossroads concert. This is not only my go to "lets show off the HT system" demo disc, the music will also send tingles down your... | |
| Best Krell Class A? KSA-250 IMHO is unbeatable. My all time favorite amplifier. | |
| How good is the Oppo 105 as a DAC? Beewax; I agree entirely with your comments concerning computer audio and DACs (newer is often better). However, this to my ears is not universally true; have you ever heard a McIntosh MC275 or Krell KSA-250 power amp? Similarly something like res... | |
| 20amp Power Cord for $18 I recently sold my refurbished (as good as new) KSA-250 power amp to a local audiophile. He replaced the original stock power cable with a $1,000 after market power cable (can't remember the name, I will find out if this is important to you) and g... | |
| How good is the Oppo 105 as a DAC? I use an Oppo 105 as a DAC in my computer audio system (MacBook Air, Audirvana Plus, Oppo 105 into a Krell HTS 7.1 as a volume control only, into a Krell TAS and B&W N801 speakers). The sound to my ears is spectacular, I could not be happier. ... | |
| Any Quad technicians? What happened to the original QUAD repair shop in the USA, QS&D? I have used them 3 times in the past and they were excellent. | |
| High end dealers around London, UK? My recommendation is; http://www.kjwestone.co.uk. A good place to search for other high end HiFi/HT dealers in the UK is; http://absolutesounds.com/nearest_dealer.phpHowever, your friend will be shocked when he finds out how high end audio equipme... | |
| Local Cinema black level quality vs home Projector Black levels (absolute contrast ratio) is one of the important criteria I use when selecting video equipment. This is why my plasma TV is a Pioneer Elite Kuro PRO-141FD (as good as they get IMHO) and my projector is a Sony VPL-VW85. Looking just a... | |
| Oppo BD 105, stand alone DAC, or music streamer I use an Oppo 105 as a DAC in my stereo and HT system. Stereo is mainly via computer audio through a MacBook Air running Aurdirvana Plus and 24/96 HDTrack files via USB into the Oppo. From the Oppo to a Krell HTS 7.1 (Analog, with the Krell just a... | |
| Best Hi-Res Audiophile Downloads Top 3 This is a good post, I will be interested to hear what other people have to say. Unfortunately, my own high res download collection is relatively small at present, so I don't really have a top 3. However, my favorite so far is the HDTracks 24/96 v... |