shadorne
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| Can TA-E9000ES pre-amp be used with TA-N80ES amp Sure it can. I am not sure but you may lose the ability to control the on off power to the power amp from the preamp but that is it. | |
| Do newer releases of CD's sound any better? The newer Rio CD release is extremely good (sounds like I remember the Vinyl did). The Aerosmith Gold three CD box of their first three albums mastered by Doug Sax is awesome (it was originally done for SACD and is now available on CD). The Bob Lu... | |
| DACs with word clock output?? Steve thanks the clock needs to originate close to the D/A. Then this seems to be the prevailing consensus/wisdom for playback these days. | |
| Impdence Question I tend to agree with Duke - the electrical aspect of wiring up two woofers is not such a big deal. To me the issue is the problem of precise driver matching and the backwave acoustic coupling in the box and the fact that two small woofers with two... | |
| Holographic imaging You think great DACs are realtively immune to the transport use? I always naively[?] felt thgat a good DAC should be able to deal with whatever jitter the source might present; maybe we are thereInteresting question - I wonder what experts think?... | |
| Recommended CD player below 1.5K The Benchmark DAC1 is very hifi - I found it too analytical and mechanical sounding to be natural. Agreed. It is a precision engineering type product more at home in a studio. Only a few folks will enjoy or appreciate this kind of presentation. O... | |
| DACs with word clock output?? Doug,I think there are two schools of logic. 1) A master clock which is precisely passed around with extremely expensive and precision circuitry to accommodate that. Studios may need this if they are to keep multiple devices and bitsreams all in s... | |
| Most expensive No such thing - there is always a bigger fool - so today's most expensive speaker on earth will be surpassed.FWIW - room acoustics quickly become the most limiting factor for sound quality. You can't put lipstick on a pig (the most expensive speak... | |
| Recommended CD player below 1.5K Here's one more option for you to consider -- keep your Cambridge 540 and get a good DAC. I really enjoy the sound of my Benchmark DAC -- in my system, better than both the Rega Apollo and the Cambridge 840C. I second this suggestion. A transport... | |
| Best Digital Input from PC to DAC A low cost option might be iTunes feeding an Apple Express with TOSLINK output connected to a Benchmark DAC1. The DAC1 is not the latest and greatest but has a long reputation at being good at removing bad jitter. Another option would be to get th... | |
| DACs with word clock output?? It seems like you need an Apogee Big Ben. I am a little confused why you want to pass digital signals around like this? | |
| Preamps with HT pass through? Anthem's preamps do this - AVM20 - AVM 30 - AVM 50 or Statement D1 take your pick - they do pretty much everything else imaginable too (you can program input routing to a DSP for bass management or just do analog direct without even a tone control... | |
| Is music quality moving away from the "audiophile" I was browsing HMV during lunch when I felt a chill and a shadow passed by the window. Suddenly a Vampire Weekend CD appeared wedged between The Undertakers "Unearthed" and The Wraiths. Currently Vampire Weekend is in my pocket and I looking forwa... | |
| Power conditioner with Ayre amps I use APC (not the battery version) and think it is great value for what it does (yes it can supply power to modest sized amps). Can you spend a lot more? Yes - sure you can. But do you need to? Now that is the question -it will depend on your sys... | |
| Music Server Setup: Airport Express or Extreme? I’ve read on here much over the past couple years about DACs. Presently, I am using the internal Apple DAC built into the G5 desktop computer. I have read extensively about its limitations and after I get Satellite Room #1 operative, I will exper... |