morbius396c
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| Which DACs do SACD decoding? Bearotti,You are correct that Sony [ the creators of SACD / DSD ]will not license a player that outputs the digital DSD data stream unencrypted.However, some manufacturers, like Ed Meitner's EMMLabshave a proprietary digital output that allows the... | |
| Which DACs do SACD decoding? Herve1,It's not just the DAC that needs to be replaced if youwant SACD. The data format on SACD discs - "DSD" - is different than the data format on regular "Redbook" CDs.You need a player that knows how to read the new format.Dr. Gregory Greenman | |
| Why are CDs so hard to open? Lindisfarne,You don't have to open the CD - just put it in your player.Now the jewel-box and the packaging they put around that -now THAT'S hard to open! ;-)Dr. Gregory Greenman | |
| Wilson Spikes Stehno,The problem is that unless you can induce a phase change in the material - the Equation of State of the material saysthat the material will return to its previous state when itwarms back up.Dr. Gregory GreenmanPhysicist | |
| Hard Drive based system Ecruz,As Pardales and Audioengr point out - there's much to besaid for a server based system.What you want the digital components ahead of the DAC to dois to deliver the digital data accurately, and with good timing - i.e. minimal "jitter".One of ... | |
| Krell FBP c versus FPB cx Richnus,The "c" variants added the CAST connection scheme.The "x" variant is an improvement to the sound quality -a much "sweeter" Krell - and a move away from the oldKrell "house sound".I wouldn't say the 300cx IS the old 200c; I would say theold... | |
| Anybody hear the new DCS P8i? Seric,I heard the dCS P8i driving a Halcro preamp and amppowering Wilson X-2 Alexandrias courtesy of Music Loversin Berkeley - and it was VERY NICE!!On that system, it sounded very much like the dCS 3-stackDr. Gregory Greenman | |
| Has anyone heard the Ref 3? Kinsekd,Yes - I've heard both the Ref 2 and the Ref 3 in the systemof Audiogon member "oneobgyn":http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?vaslt&1049587927&read&3&4&I believe "OB" thinks the Ref 2 --> Ref 3 was a very worthwhi... | |
| What is physiclly in size the largest audio power The 1610 was also used in the Cary CAD-1610-SE reviewed byby Jonathan Scull in the December 2000 issue of Stereophile: http://stereophile.com/tubepoweramps/1200cary/If you want to see some REALLY big tubes - you need to checkout the old TV transmi... | |
| Preamps ... no bass or treble control? Onhwy61,It is true that one can implement some more sophisticatedfilters in a digital implementation than would be practicalin analog. Your example re: ringing is a good one. One canimplement higher-order filters that have group delays tailoredto ... | |
| Preamps ... no bass or treble control? Onhwy61,Just because your tone control is digital doesn't mean thatit is without deleterious artifacts. The tone control ischaracterized by a "transfer function" - the ratio of theLaplace transform of the output over the Laplace transform of the i... | |
| SACD and DAC Aveloguy,The problem with outputing the raw digital signal from anSACD player to the output isn't a technical one - but a legal one. The Sony SACD licensing agreement forbids it!!The concern is that the end user could pirate the digitaldata and ma... | |
| Playing SACD on a Non-SACD Player Tvad,Exactly, Rwwear's post was misleading in that it implied thatone could play an SACD disc in a redbook player.A better phrasing would be that the redbook layer of a hybridSACD/redbook disc benefits from the fact that the recordingwas originall... | |
| Playing SACD on a Non-SACD Player Rwwear,Not true at all.The DSD encoded on an SACD disc is like a foreign languageto your redbook machine. It doesn't understand it AT ALL!!The redbook machine can't read a single layer SACD disc atall. The redbook player can only read the redbook ... | |
| Mono blocks vs 2ch stereo single amp / Krell Johnhelenjake,The amp doesn't physically have to be in the center betweenthe speakers. As long as you have equal length speaker cables [ and even that isn't absolutely necessary ], youcan put the amp anywhere you like; and your speakers won'tknow ... |