mikelavigne
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| Audio Aero Capital CD vs SACD Tim, with all due respect to the Capitole (i guess i was misspelling it, sorry), any sacd player with a sufficiently high quality output stage should better any cd player, assuming other issues are equalized. how many sacd players have a sufficien... | |
| Audio Aero Capital CD vs SACD hi Matt,my opinion on your first question is that a separate dac would be unlikely to improve the Capital; which doesn't need improving. part of the magic of the Capital is related to it's tube output stage.....which would be bypassed if you used ... | |
| Audio Aero Capital CD vs SACD i just finished an all-day listening session, part of which was the comparison of the Audio Aero Capital 192/24 to my CD-12 and SA-1. before i get into that issue i must state that the great digital we listened to was completely humbled by the vin... | |
| The BEST system you've ever built !!!! my current sytem and room have recently kinda "come together" to a considerable degree...... it is simple where it should be and complex where it should be......my system;digital--Linn CD-12...Marantz SA-1analog--Rockport System II Sirius, Clearau... | |
| Audio Aero Capital CD vs SACD tomorrow i may have an Audio Aero Capital 129/24 in my room to compare to my Linn CD-12 and my stock Marantz SA-1. if that happens i will report my findings. | |
| Passive preamp and biamping i agree with the points already made.....one additional issue is the length of the interconnects to and from your passive preamp. a passive attenuator is especially sensitive to anything over 1 meter between it and the amps. there will be consider... | |
| Kharma Exquisites Avnut, i will difer to Jtinn as far as number of truely high-end systems heard. but i can say that the Kharma Exquisite/Tenor in my room was so incredible when i first heard it......it actually intimidated me. i had to have 6 or 7 experienced list... | |
| Anyone heard the new Edge Amps? i heard the $30K Edge monoblocks at CES and was mighty impressed. they rivaled the Halcro as my favorite solid state amp and would probably be the ss amp i would buy for ease and musicality.i do prefer the Tenor OTLs that i have but the Edge made ... | |
| Rockport Serius II is it as good as the Serius III Bill, i have been told by those that have heard both the II and III that the differences are subtle but significant in an absolute sense. slightly more ease and solidity, slightly deeper and tighter bass on the III. also, a slightly lower noise fl... | |
| Kharma Exquisites i own the Kharma Exquisite 1ds. i use the Tenor 75Wi OTL monoblocks.Avnut, the Exquisites you heard at CES was the 1A, which has an external crossover, compared to my 1Ds, which are also bi-ampable but have an internal crossover.i spent considerab... | |
| Does a CD Transport need to be HDCD ALSO? the transport just reads the bits, whether hdcd or not, and sends them off to the internal or external dac. if an hdcd code is present on the disc and the dac/filter is capable of recognizing the embedded hdcd code in the bit-stream, then the dac/... | |
| what is the best speaker cable? i haven't heard them all, but i have heard many of them in my system. None THAT I HAVE HEARD are close to my Transparent Opus mm. the closest has been the Jena Labs and then the Valhalla. i would put those 2 very close with the Valhalla faster and... | |
| Clearaudio Master Reference vs. Basis Debut V ?? Thomas, i don't know Kelly (CFB) personally but i do know his friend at Audio Unlimited that sells the CRM. i have done business there for 5 years and they sell and recommend many different analog products. i bought my Basis 2500/Graham 2.2/Aesthe... | |
| Proceed AVP or Meridian 561? i own the AVP and love it. seems to have all the bases covered except 5.1 channel analog pass-thru for when i go to sacd multi-channel (there is an in-expensive Sony solution to that problem). the AVP is easy to setup, has worked flawlessly for 3 ... | |
| VPI or Basis? i own the Basis 2500/Graham 2.2 and formerly owned the VPI TNT III/Graham 1.5tc. these are both great turntables and at the level you are comparing are both quite neutral and without deficiencies.i went with the Basis for the following reasons; 1.... |