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| Bel Canto DAC3.5VB MK2 I was curious about your question since I have a Bel Canto DAC 3. Looking at the manual for your DAC, one of the design features listed is "110dB dynamic range 24/192 ADC input for your analog sources." I would think that means that an analog sign... | |
| ???Anyone Here UpGrade From Yaqin/Cayin/etc... To Another Tube Amp Considered Hi End??? Yes, I went from a Cayin A-50T integrated to a Raven Audio Blackhawk LE and the difference is substantial, for the better. The Cayin is a very fine amp, especially at its price but The Blackhawk is clearly better in every way. | |
| VTL integrated amp and exaSound DAC remote controls As far as I know Apple has made only two remotes, the slim silver one with black buttons that came with Apple TV devices and the Siri remote that adds voice control. Neither are programmable (again, as far as I know.) You should contact Apple supp... | |
| Are CD players goig the way of the 8 track,and the cassette? I expect the most important factor in the viability of the format is the availability of the mechanical transports. Being a mechanical device running at very high speeds they all fail eventually. Since the computer market offers optical disc reade... | |
| your opinion on buying an older Simaudio i-5 integrated The I-5 is a wonderful amp. I had both an I-5 and an I-5 LE for years and enjoyed them as much as any piece of gear I've owned. The sonics and the build quality are superb. It's worth owning one just to be able to feel that silky-smooth volume kno... | |
| In case you need a new "source" for audiophile units..... You're right, isochronism, "Rare" in that context usually means the seller is the only one who was dumb enough to buy one. | |
| WHat did Audiophiles hear during Tape deck era? During the early 70s when I worked at the University of Texas in Austin and lived close enough to walk to work, I would pass a record store just a block off the Drag that would let you take new albums home overnight to audition for $1. Bring the a... | |
| Raven or Hegel? A couple of other things that make the Raven amps attractive is the 45-day free home trial and that if you buy an amp and decide to trade up within the line during the first year you can get a full-credit trade-in on your amp. | |
| Raven or Hegel? In addition to their superb build and sonics the support from Dave Thomson, the owner of Raven, is the best I've encountered. I've cycled through a lot of amps over the years, some more expensive and well known than my Raven Blackhawk and it's in ... | |
| Fair Market Value for Used Martin Logan Clarity + Motif Speakers? There's a pair of the Clarity speakers on ebay right now at a 'buy it now' price of $1,699. You could see whether they sell.https://www.ebay.com/itm/264434043407 | |
| My List of Best & Most Enjoyable Documentaries (on DVD) about Entire Musical Genre The four PBS documentaries in the "Now Hear This" series are excellent. They're not in the standard historical documentary style, which I think is a good thing in this case, and were both informative and very entertaining. They look at the lives o... | |
| Little Richard passes away at 87. Another musical great joins the band in the sky. I saw him in 1974 or '75 at the Ritz Theater on Sixth St. in Austin, a small former movie theater that was a music venue for those two years. It still had the original very small stage and movie theater seating and a friend and I had second row ce... | |
| New to Streaming RPI4 and Hifiberry DAC + DSP Neither Pandora nor Spotify has lossless files as an option, at least not yet.In choosing among Amazon HD, Qobuz and Tidal I would recommend you do a free trial of each, even if that means initially listening to lower resolution files. Their music... | |
| Some basic computer audio questions There are decent, relatively inexpensive DACs out there with both USB and optical inputs, Topping and SMSL are two of the names that are recommended often. | |
| Some basic computer audio questions When I set up my system a few years ago the USB digital output was considered to have more inherent noise and jitter than an optical or coax output and most DACs didn't have USB input. Most DACs now do have USB input, including mine, but this work... |