nglazer
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| Reference Transports: An overall perspective I am sticking with my RAM - modded CEC TL-1x, recently refreshed and updated by Nick at True Sound with a new belt, etc. AES/EBU output through Sextet digicable to W4S DAC2 (which replaced a Dodson DAC). Can't see why I would want to replace this ... | |
| Requesting help...fairly new to computer audio The W4S Dac2 is a superb component, punches way way above its price class. I have been using it since it came out and am highly satisfied. I use with a transport and Wadia i170 iPod dock so cannot testify as to USB connection performance.Neal | |
| Best CD I've heard so far 2011......... The new Feist CD called Metal is superb! Rich and varied.Neal | |
| Why 24/7 warm-up period on amps? In my experience, when SS amp has been on for at least an hour, it sounds best. I have no idea why. The exception is my BR system's bel Canto S300 power amp. Sounds the same from minute #1 to hour #1. Again, I have no idea why.Neal | |
| BEST DIGITAL AES/EBU CABLES - 2011 I have been using the Stealth Sextet AES/EBU for years, after having run through Nordost Valhalla (very good) and Kharma Grand Ref (exceptional, still use it in different place in system). Got tired of constantly trying new digicables when the Ste... | |
| Are Disc Players Dead? Macdactexas,I have had an iPod and have been using iTunes since the day Apple came out with a Windows - capable iPod. I use a Classic with a Wadia i170 into my W4S DAC2. I am highly computer literate and easily could go the route you suggest. But ... | |
| Are Disc Players Dead? Kijanki,I don't think there are many people who don't use a computer, even though they think it is buggy and confucing (myself among them, even though I was an early adapter going back to DOS days). I think you can see from the comments in this th... | |
| Are Disc Players Dead? This is not to say that the day of server-based systems that reliably provide as high SQ and reliability as CDP or Transport - DAC based systems is not coming. But, as Charles1dad points out, currently (no pun intended) they are just too "buggy" a... | |
| Are Disc Players Dead? They are most assuredly not. Many of us like the simplicity, reliability and high SQ of transports and DACs, traits often not found in server-based music systems. We eschew the myriad of acronyms, server and software hiccups, crashes, droputs, fir... | |
| Cardas Golden Reference upgrade to what? AQ Sky will give you the body of Cardas GR with more detail and air. Whenever I plug the Sky's into a source I find myself saying: Ahhh, now that's how music is suppsoed to sound -- without spending an obscene fortune, just a small one..Neal | |
| Bryston BDP1- loading problem So remind me again why a manufacturer charges over $2000 for a product that cannot be used with a standard codec like AIFF, so one has to spend hours reconverting to accomodate this mfr., and THEN, the mfr SOMEDAY will issue firmware to deal with ... | |
| Best CD I've heard so far 2011......... New Bon Iver. Dreamy and heavenly.Ra Ra Riot - Orchard. Jumpy and melodic.Neal | |
| Bryston BDP1- loading problem So please remind me again how computer audio actually makes it EASIER to listen to music with HQ reproduction? I would very much like to get involved but I do not like to spend my free time gnashing my teeth, so I'll stick to my primitive transpor... | |
| New Ground Loop - What Could Have Caused? It's Verizon, Swampwalker, and that is a battle not yet joined!regards,Neal | |
| New Ground Loop - What Could Have Caused? You fellows are very smart. I can't even begin to explain it technically. Following the "ground loop" , I started losing the FIOS signal sporadically, then entirely. I checked all the connections and noticed a splitter outside running up to my bed... |