seventies
Responses from seventies
| Best speaker/system piano concerts Regarding loudspeakers for piano concerts, B&W 802d3's are, I concur based onlistening at dealers' showrooms, a great choice....but so physically unattractive compared to the nicely sculpted 802D2's, which I own and which reproduce piano quite... | |
| Mark Levinson pre-amplifiers George,Many thanks for the response.If you have similar insight into loudspeakers, I invite you to share it.I have B&W D2's, have not upgraded to the D3's because the latter are so physically unattractive, and have avoidedMagico and similar sp... | |
| KEF 205.2 or B&W 802D2? Gentleman,Can you share any thoughts regarding the B&W 802D2 versus the 802D3?If cost is not an object, should one automatically prefer the newer of these ?Amongst considerations are 1. the 802D2's in rose-nut are to myeye significantly more a... | |
| High End DAC's compared Steve,Are we on different pages ?Correct me if I am wrong.1. Regarding jitter, I read that modern DAC's, of which the Bryston is a fine example, are highly tolerant of jitter, and that jitter reduction interposed between the transport and DAC is r... | |
| High End DAC's compared Steve,According to the 'Absolute Sound' October, 2017 review of theBryston BDA-3, "with both CD's and DVD's the HDMI outputs of my Sony Blu-ray players sounded decisively more refined and neutral than those players' SPDIF outputs....mirroring what... | |
| High End DAC's compared Steve NI am grateful for your response.The Oppo 105d has what that manual calls a S/PDIF coaxial digitalaudio output, and the Bryston has a S/PDIF coaxial RCA digital input.I can compare the sound of a CD output to the Bryston by both methods, and... | |
| Best practices when conducting a DAC comparison David,I have now owned and auditioned a Bryston BDA-3, Luxman DA-06, and the Oppo 105d with its internal DAC. Each, as you know, uses a different DAC chip: respectively AKM, Sabre Burr- Brown.I now use exclusively the Bryston, sourced via USB by ... | |
| 'outboard' high end dac's Ben,You are correct, via HDMI, as discussed in this month's Stereophilereview of the BDA-3. | |
| Pipedream Crossover Does anyone know if an electronic crossover can be used todirect pre-amplifier low frequency output to a 'center channel' subwooferwithout without merging or otherwise impairing the signal frequencies above the lowpass crossover level ? If the pre... | |
| splitting a streamer's output Erik, thank you for replying.My concern was(is) that simply splitting the streamer's USB outputwould degrade the signal....perhaps even if one of the two recipientDAC's was turned off. I currently use my pre-amp to switch betweenthe output of a u... | |
| Bryston BDA-3 Nekoaudio, I again applaud your descriptions. A dealer near me (I am very far from California) will have a BDA-3 for audition in a week or two, and I will seize the opportunity. I am tempted to borrow/purchase and bring to that audition an Oppo... | |
| Bryston BDA-3 Nekoaudio, thanks for your detailed and well considered reply. Let me correct an error in my last post...the Levinson 526, at $20,000.00, employs the new Sabre 9028 chip, which apparently will be available in the Oppo sonica at $800.00, and the ... | |
| Conversion to DSD: Does It Eliminate Digital Glare? mahler123 I am interested in further discussion insofar as I have a system very similar toyours...B&W802D2's etc....and listen more or less exclusively to classical music. I had a Denon 1713UD universal player and replaced it with the Oppo 10... | |
| Bryston BDA-3 Gentleman, and particularly nekoaudio,I wish first to address sonic quality obtained with different 'outboard' DAC's, and in the following context.The context is that I acquired a Luxman DA-06 in part due toprice and local convenience. I had prev... | |
| Bryston BDA-3 Nekoaudio and ddafoe,You appreciate that the Oppo 105d will not through-put DSDor SADC files...failure to do so for SACD appears so some sort of copyright issue, and DSD a technical issue. So a streaming device is required to input un-decoded DS... |