peter_s
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| Active Crossover Recommendations It's not the price of the Berhinger that puts me off, but the fact that it appears to digitally upsample and then downsample to do its crossing over. I can't imagine that would be good for the signal, even at 24/96. Kenn39 - what have you heard ab... | |
| DAC choice advice - hard-drive based system Audioengr - what can you tell us about changes to the Benchmark DAC. I called Benchmark several months ago, and they told me that as long as the DAC has the stepped attenuator there have been no significant changes added. I think the stepped atten... | |
| Juicy Music Preamps Geez - what's happening to Audiogon? A well reviewed preamp with a 30-day satisfaction guarantee, and nobody has anything to report? I should have something to say in about a month. Hope it's good. | |
| Anyone Compared Odyssey/PS Audio amps? Hi Doug,I had them both at the same time. I remember being wey impressed at the punch and clean-ness of the bass with the HCA-2, but in the area of midrange it was no contest. The HCA-2 midrange never sounded quite right to me, somehow on the "syn... | |
| CAT Ultimate Mk II Cartridge Matching Thanks Aoliviero. I just found out that my cartridge only has 0.4 mv, but many people are using cartridges with this output. We'll see. | |
| Mozart Trios - Recommendations Thanks Doug. I also notice Naxos has the complete trios:BIS-CD-513-14 MOZART, W.A.: Complete Piano Triosand a Nimbus recording of the Vienna Piano Trio among others.I've got an email into Proprius distributor May Audio to find out where to get thi... | |
| Less fatiquing I had a system that was too aggressive and harsh in the midrange. Putting in Cardas neutral reference cables did the trick for me. It really took the aggressiveness out of the mids. I no longer have that system, and am currently selling the cables... | |
| Benchmark DAC1 The folks at Benchmark seem to have no plans to make the DAC1 a USB device. In my conversation with them, the indicated that it is just too easy to add on an external M-Audio "Transit" converter ($70) to do the job. Not worth their time... | |
| Mass .WAV compression utility? Kenny, thanks for the advice. Can you provide more information, or a link, about the itunes plugin for Macs that allows reference to multiple libraries. I think I might need that!Thanks, Peter S | |
| Audio Research PH3 SE - Shelter 501 II compatibili I thought that the PH3 was a moving magnet or high output moving coil phono preamp. If I am right about that, I don't think it has enough gain to run the Shelter. The Shelter has an output level of 0.5mv, and probably needs around 60db of gain to ... | |
| WAF Friendly Soundproofing ? Good advice Nsgarch. I have that no my door, and it works wonders. Sound really "leaks" through the gaps.Two things. On my unit, you must router a slot in the bottom of the door for the "guillotine" to fit into when not extended. Also, I don't thi... | |
| Benchmark DAC1 Note that in point #3, all of these are digital inputs. So you can't run anything analog thru it (as a preamp). Would work for the right satellite radio though! | |
| Review: Threshold 400a Amplifier That is a great review - thank you. It seems like there are many "bang-for-the-buck" Nelson Pass designs out there. I would love it if people would chime in on this and other Pass amps from the past that are still very worthy of recognition and co... | |
| Benchmark DAC1 Slov_dream: you can definitely use the volume control to make this unit a combined dac, single-input preamp to drive an amplifier. The volume control also controls RCA jacks on the back.This DAC has a resampling scheme that has very strong jitter ... | |
| How can I raise the height of the sound stage I built stands for my 988's by going to a timber frame housing company and getting roughly 5' of solid 12"x12" fir used for posts in timber home construction. The cost was around $200, and they cut it into two 26" lengths, one for each speaker. It... |