redkiwi
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| Conventional DAC At the risk of being boring on the technical side, there are real problems with PCM when trying to up the word length. The DAC chip has to incorporate resistor values that start with a value and then halve the value for the next resistor, then hal... | |
| How to Move Heavy Audio Components It seems to me you were asking how to box up a heavy component, and lifting a heavy component into a box is awkward. The easiest way that I am aware of is to leave the component on the floor; put the open box over the component, so that the compon... | |
| Conventional DAC Now I get you Avguy, and concur that the 24/96 DACs have something very different and musically almost magical compared with earlier DACs - when all else is equal. My DAC did get to do the round trip by the way - thanks to your recommendation. I e... | |
| Sand bags under a cdp - didn't work well Compared with what has been suggested here (Subaruguru excepted) you will get a similar magnitude of improvement as moving from stock cords to kilobuck PCs if you buy a welded steel rack, spiked to the floor and spikes supporting a Neuance shelf, ... | |
| Bi-wiring speakers Bi-wiring can indeed produce a difference, and in some cases a significant improvement. But the speakers that improve most from bi-wiring from my experience are some of the British small monitor speakers where they have tried to achieve transparen... | |
| Cable Costs Relative to System I agree with you Garfish. You need competent wire and competent wire does not come cheap - just like the tyres on your Ferrari. Somewhere between 10% and 20% is sensible in my experience, including PCs. Most of the issue is finding the cable that ... | |
| inexpensive hdcd player or dac I agree Dekay, particularly re the bass of the Icon, but add that in a large room or one with a suspended wooden floor the enlarged bass of the Icon is a real bonus. | |
| Conventional DAC The higher bit-rate DACs have the advantage of allowing better noise-shaping or dither, without losing resolution ie. not robbing the 16 bits too much. Whether or not a 24 bit DAC does this or does it well is another matter altogether. But I agree... | |
| Conventional DAC I do find that a bit hard to swallow Avguygeorge. You wouldn't be suggesting that any Pioneer DVD player plays CDs better than any conventional player just because it has a 24/96 DAC? Or have I misunderstood you? | |
| High-Bit CD s JVC XRCD worth if... I just want to emphasize the point already made that any superiority of XRCDs is not due to there being more bits on the CD, they are of course red book standard like all other CDs. The bits issue is that it is a good idea during mixing and master... | |
| inexpensive hdcd player or dac At the risk of annoying you (but I am trying to help), I would point out that HDCD is just one of the important technology choices that contribute to the sound quality of a CD player. Remember that marketing is core to all business endeavours and ... | |
| New Music vs. New Equipment The way I look at it is there is no problem with your expenditure on gear being much higher than on software, and that it is not necessarily a trade-off decision. Over the last 20 years my income and stereo have improved a lot, but the rate at whi... | |
| REL Q201E vs REL STORM The Storm is a good deal better for music. If you can stretch to it financially then go for the Storm. | |
| CDP suggestions for bright system? Hi Doug. I think we agree. A friend of mine once commented on another's audiophilia nervosa as a "misguided wild goose chase for a musical result from CDs". I suspect there is a lot of truth in the suggestion that you are wasting your time trying ... | |
| CDP suggestions for bright system? This isn't what you asked Widener, but I believe that you should banish from your system any component that is either not neutral or is dynamically constrained. So it worries me that you are going to add to your existing "brightness" problem by ad... |