shadorne
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| Phono Preamps with "balls" ? Denon DL-110 - nice FM sound. | |
| High End is Dead? Don’t think it’s dead. I have simply found dealers are often unwilling to move on price. They are preapared to sit on gear for a year or more if necessary. I find individuals are much more reasonable and will move on price to get a sale done and m... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @gdhal Even harmonic distortion is pleasing. It is higher order odd harmonics above 7th which are not pleasing and harsh sounding.It looks like the R-2R DAC has equal amounts of even and odd harmonic distortion. The 2nd harmonic being the most imp... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Here is a thesis paper explaining why R-2R DACs have lots of harmonic distortion.Looks like the distortion is consistent across all harmonics.https//pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9a52/fcba6dd87371974b3c146dbb5a3a00ffee74.pdf These students were sponsor... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Perhaps it is the harmonic distortion from an R-2R DAC that listeners like - kind of like tubes - measures poorly but sounds subjectively better...With two types of resistor perhaps the distortion is more in the even harmonics.All I can say is tha... | |
| Your thoughts about ATC loudspeakers @keoliphantAt lower volumes Harbeth is a great choice even with SS. ATC are bone crunching dynamic at louder SPL with SS but at lower volumes (if that is mostly what you are after for an office) then I would advise a warm traditional style tube pr... | |
| Selling a Macintosh Amplier MC-352 Mcintosh probably have close to the best resale value of anything in used audio. Reliable and desirable. Kind of the Rolex of high end audio. | |
| Wilson Speakers & Reviewers Wilson have great mid range and warm bass. They are beautifully finished. The last word in speakers perhaps not but like Mcintosh, Wilson are highly desirable for their sound and look. You often see Wilson or B&W paired with Mcintosh - highly ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @audioengr +1 Yes it is the filtering that creates the dead effect. Still one of the most problematic issues with any DAC. Marantz house sound is dark and dead. I have heard plenty of great sounding SACD but Marantz is not to my taste. @georgehifi... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD +1 @beewax I agree. I would suggest to use the cleanest high performance DAC I could find for the most resolving line level source signal and then use a tube preamp and roll tubes to taste for the musical taste. This approach is much more flexib... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @beewax +1 I agree. My strategy if I were to try to put some methodology to the task would be to1) go for the most jitter immune, cleanest, lowest distortion and highest SNR DAC available. This would obviously be a new DAC within the last year or... | |
| Trouble in Fleetwood Mac....... Peter Green Fleetwood Mac is the only line up I ever enjoyed. I think Mike Campbell is every bit as capable as Peter Green but will they let him be moody and artistic and go back to the old blues stuff in their catalog that wasn’t such a commercia... | |
| ARC Ref3 or McIntosh C2300/2500 @kalali No material difference between 100K or 1000K input resistance. Both are high enough such that any stray micro-amp current could generate a voltage input to the amplifier.You need to get to 10K or below input impedance to start making a dif... | |
| ARC Ref3 or McIntosh C2300/2500 Old thread. Good discussion but without a proper technical answer. Clearly ARC is the winner in popularity for resolution/pure performance.However, the REF 3 requires a high input impedance power amp to sound best (ARC power amps are typically 200... | |
| Oppo to cease production -- Announced yesterday... Logical. Streaming services are killing all forms of physical media... |