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Jul 01, 2009	best cd player for 300-500 bux Drag racing? Hmmm.... Are you sure you haven't suffered loss of high frequency hearing? That would certainly cause your system to sound like you're describing. First, check your tweeters. If they're good, have your hearing checked.
Jun 30, 2009	Valab NOS Dac VS. Cambridge Azur DacMagic Oh.......I forgot to mention, all the cables I use are known to have some top end roll off, and my maggies are older models with a planar magnetic tweeter, and have a natural sharp roll off above 16k. All this treble roll off probably compliments ...
Jun 30, 2009	Valab NOS Dac VS. Cambridge Azur DacMagic Kenobi,I did put better opamps in my Onix, and the interconnects I matched with it help out, greatly. Remember, my rig is tweaked around the sonic signature of the Onix, so swapping in another source would likely require re-tweaking the rest of th...
Jun 28, 2009	Valab NOS Dac VS. Cambridge Azur DacMagic Ok, after a week of silence, I had another few hour session of comparing. I've always found I can't compare sound quality, very well, after prolonged listening, due to confusion. I get a better sense of what I'm hearing on a "first impression" bas...
Jun 21, 2009	Valab NOS Dac VS. Cambridge Azur DacMagic Face,I'm the second owner of my Dacmagic. The previous owner had it for 6 months, so it's got some time on it. My Valab is also second hand, with less time on it, and for me, it's easier to listen to, whereas the Dacmagic makes me want to start tr...
Jun 21, 2009	Valab NOS Dac VS. Cambridge Azur DacMagic Funny you should ask that, cause currently I have both the Dacmagic and Valab, and have been comparing both with the sound of my Onix xcd-88 (same as original music hall cd25)with OPA627 opamps. I'm using the Onix as the transport.I've only had th...
Jun 19, 2005	What's the "worst" cdp for the money? Hmmmm..... What's up with some of you guys? Many of these threads contain opiniated comparisons between different components. When a user gives an opinion on which component is better over another, one particular component always receives a negati...