shadorne
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| My First USB DAC Sounds Dull, Please Help Planck,You should read this Apparently soundcards on PC's and DSP's in DVD players are not "bit-transparent" or you need to be savvy about settings to make sure that no "processing" or bit truncation etc is going on. | |
| Wadia 170i and Benchmark Dac1 - anyone try it? Let me try to make it more clear: If the two audio transports are reading the CD or DVD or BD in a "bit-transparent" manner then it should sound identical coming out your DAC1 (no matter which player or which digital connection is used). If it doe... | |
| External DAC vs. your quality processor Nothing as fancy as a Krell - see my Virtual System - the HT processor is listed there. FWIW: I can't hear the AtoD and DtoA loop in this processor and I have tried very hard to do so (So the AKM DAC's it has are probably ok for my tin ears). Howe... | |
| External DAC vs. your quality processor I found Benchmark DAC1 to be slightly cleaner than my HT processor alone using Toslink. The difference was small though. A friend of mine actually preferred the HT processor sound (it was less "articulate" or "recording" sounding or more musical t... | |
| ATC scm 19 upgrade ?? Powerstudio,If you take a look at this thread then you will see what I meant about volume control. Simply read what Elias Gwinn has to say about a potentiometer volume control in the first post at the top - it is best used in its "upper 80%" and s... | |
| What the benifit of using a separate dac? For a premium dollar figure however, it needs be of superior looks as well.Blindjim,Your reply sounded superbly utilitarian and pragmatic until you let that slip in! LOL aesthetics is important after all! I 'll admit I am just as guilty of that a... | |
| Wadia 170i and Benchmark Dac1 - anyone try it? What are you comparing? CD or DVD or BD as your music source?Perhaps it is a software bug for your player. Perhaps it is using the DRC processing to reduce dynamic range. The other possibility is that you are not sending redbook CD 16bit/44.2Khz t... | |
| Blue-spec CD format If it is simply a higher quality CD then it will presumably track more precisely (less laser adjustments) and may also have less read errors that require correcting or in the worst case of a total inability to error correct - simple interpolation.... | |
| My First USB DAC Sounds Dull, Please Help Hello Tanzania - I lived in Africa many years! I see you have an SS audio chain, Try a Benchmark DAC1 - it is dynamic for sure. You might be brainwashed by that dynamic SS sound. I know I am ! Benchmark is for those who crave power dynamics and de... | |
| Could anyone or Tyler Acoustics describe D line? Sorry no iDea. More seriously, I have a good feel for the "D" line but I can't explain it right now, as I got my hands full. | |
| proac sound vs coincident sound Is ProAc cold and analytical? Does it require tubes to be listenable? Kind of. Definitely tilted that way, of course, it is all a matter of taste. Jack Sprat could eat no fat while his wife could eat no lean. Are Proac speakers "unlistenable" ? -... | |
| liquid sound "Liquid sound" is very similar to banking, IMHO. It means loose and easy credit. Just like a loose and easy speaker. One thinks of the old naval term "three-sheets to the wind". So it would be the opposite of a system with control and precision - ... | |
| What the benifit of using a separate dac? I'd really wonder how sensitive one could be to a seat-of-pants judgement on the boost in power on a 50cc scooter of, perhaps 1 hp in some part of the throttle range?! Exactly. That is why travelling the same route daily with two identical scoote... | |
| jm lab grand utopia be--- any thoughts ? Ozy,I am not familiar with the Nova but I have listened extensively to a well setup Alto - let me say these are indeed awesome speakers. However, if I am nit picky then I share your concerns about the bass - that was pretty obvious from the get go... | |
| ATC scm 19 upgrade ?? Wonderful_electric,That is also a good suggestion - certainly it woudl be easy to borrow another amp and test again at these low levels even a 20 watt amp would be more than enough. In "theory" Class A is better at very low volume levels. That is ... |