rossb
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| LP made from a digital master recording... This is not an analog vs digital discussion, or even a mastering discussion.It is a question of whether a compressed, equalized, distorted recording of a digital file can ever sound better than the digital file itself. | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips With bandwidth and sampling limitations, ringing and aliasing artifacts, all digital is only a facsimile of the original. R2R is no better than delta sigma in this respect, and has technical limitations of its own. | |
| LP made from a digital master recording... I love vinyl, but there is no way listening to an LP from a digital master will be better than listening to the digital file. That is, unless your turntable and phono stage are adding so many colourations that you prefer the coloured version to th... | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips With the X1, where do you 'fall' with regards: what is (may be) responsible for your preference of it, since it is more than just a DAC? I dont think any one element can be identified as the reason for my preference for the X1. It is just a ver... | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips If you’re going to refer to correct English, at least spell it correctly. "Queen’s English", not "Queens English".And, as I have said - twice now - I have had a good R2R dac and prefer my Lumin X1 with its ESS chip. | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips Didn’t say "all" sunshine, I said the better hi-end ones, now your generalizing, with that "preposterous statement". So the better ones are ... better. Can't argue with that logic. | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips The above R2R detractors, obviously have never A/B'ed their ESS delta sigma dacs (listening to PCM) compared to a good discrete R2R dac That is completely incorrect. As I said, I have owned a very good R2R dac and a number of ESS dacs and compa... | |
| Comparison of latest DAC chips Not even analytical, a good "discrete" R2R dac is even more detailed, yet it’s airier with much more musical sense and far more body to the mids, and then there’s the unmatched bounce and slam to the music they have as well. Sorry, but this i... | |
| Kuzma Stabi Reference vs Avid Acutus I spent some time listening to the Kuzma last night and it really is a fantastic turntable. I'm starting to agree with the comments that it would be virtually impossible to improve on it without spending ridiculous amounts of money, and the turnta... | |
| Kuzma Stabi Reference vs Avid Acutus Thanks for the suggestion, but I suspect a VPI turntable would be too similar to what I have. I have also been through a lot of cartridges over the last few years - Lyra Delos and Etna SL, Phasemation PP1000, VDH Black Beauty, Grasshopper and Coli... | |
| Kuzma Stabi Reference vs Avid Acutus Good point, vortrex. I was considering a PTP Solid 9 at one point. What are you currently using? | |
| Kuzma Stabi Reference vs Avid Acutus Thanks for the responses. Mike, have you heard the Acutus and can you comment on how its presentation differs from the Kuzma?lewm, I'm sure you are right that I would have to spend significantly more to get a genuine upgrade on the Kuzma, rather t... | |
| Why you want upsampling and upconversion in a server and why it sounds way better! I've done most of my upsampling to 768k using PCM. I have just been experimenting with DSD 512 upsampling on my Lumin X1. Pretty much the same results. DSD always tends to sound a little smoother anyway, but in a way I find artificial. The upsampl... | |
| Why you want upsampling and upconversion in a server and why it sounds way better! I also disagree with the OP.I have experimented with upsampling. I had the Chord DAVE with Blu 2 and then M Scaler. Upsampling to 768k initially sounded impressive but over time it came to sound unnatural and fatiguing. The sound was more detailed... | |
| Spendor Classic 3/1 vs Graham Chartwell LS6 ? I currently own the Graham LS6 and in the (distant) past have had a lengthy home demo of the Spendor 3/1. But it was a long time ago and not the current model, so probably not too relevant. At that time I found the Spendor a bit too coloured and w... |