randy-11
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| California Audio Labs – Icon Mk II CD Player - HDCD I guess I like this player quite well since it is about as good as Oppo's 103 (tho it lacks features like SACD, DVDs, or ability to stream). The display is very comprehensive tho hard to read.I have never compared it to a current $2000 to $3,000 ... | |
| logical steps up from DacMagic? 6 years later, I have the same question as the OP -- anything significantly better than the DacMagic? | |
| California Audio Labs – Icon Mk II CD Player - HDCD I confirmed mine has the PowerBoss pcb -- it seems about as good as an Oppo 103 | |
| High Quality Universal Player?? Sony has or is about to have a new Universal player; Oppo is about to announce a new version also | |
| Jazz for aficionados the main one was an LP with Benson, Turrentine, Hubbard et al. on it, but I forget the nameWhite Rabbit also | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? he won't respond coherently, answer or clarify or prove because he can'the WILL likely make some comment like the above ones, indicating a middle school student is posting | |
| Inexpensive speaker cables that looks pretty good - breaking corrosion at the connections when removing/reinserting cables is often responsible for some of the difference in sound people think is due to a new or different cable | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? another tidbit showing ignorance - a scientific hypothesis is completely different from a theoryreally, at least use wikipedia before posting | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? why, YES, you did check inI hate to tell you but I have a pretty sound technical education, and provide the same for others up to the PhD level and beyond.I have also installed a few car stereos for myself only, so you may have some sort of edge t... | |
| Inexpensive speaker cables Belden zip cord of appropriate diameterafter that, get something you can return and have a friend substitute it in (or not and tell you they did) in a double-blind testyou will be unlikely to hear a difference and if you do it will be different bu... | |
| What do audiophiles want from a cable? sure, you can fill them with fluid, but you really need to pressurize the fluid | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? agear - It is not even theory, in the scientific definition of theory.It is just woo-woo, and utterly worthless.It IS fun to watch him try to duck and jive now though. | |
| Jazz for aficionados I wonder if CTI will remaster their back catalog... | |
| Sanity test before you start this hobby a good sanity test would be a degree in EE or biology, focus on audioyou'll save thousands or tens of thousands | |
| Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics? oleschool - Spock wasn't trained in abnormal psychologygkaitt is trying to insert a notion invented by the notorious fakir, Rupert Sheldrakehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrakeit was pseudo-scientific gibberish then, and has not improved... |