shadorne
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| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @gdhal For highest fidelity and accuracy of Redbook, I would recommend to do this1) Use Roon with its default 3 dB reduction to eliminate the all too common intersample over clipping errors.2) Use Roon or another software to upsample the Redboo... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @klh007 Thank you you for the correction! I was not aware of Lyngdorf having also implemented a solution.It definitely makes a huge audible difference as Doug Shroeder points out in his review of the Benchmark DAC3 and AHB2 Amp.https://www.dagogo.... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @willemj You are correct - it will be less of an issue but still an issue. A lot of reissues of classical and jazz are boosted to clipping level too but you are correct they are often less compressed overall.The CD Homage To Duke by David Grusin... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @gdhal I did not read Archmago entire blog post but I agree with this “ideal filter is linear phase”! Always has been and always will be!Archmago states:“The key here is to remember that within a properly bandwidth limited signal where all the fre... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @willemj You are forgetting that no DAC except the Benchmark DAC2 and 3 properly handle Redbook intersample overs that are common even on high quality CD production like Steely Dan.As it stands, I am aware of only two solutions - 1) Use a Benchmar... | |
| Best used or new DAC under $3500 Weiss DAC202 | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic I am just pointing out that the TC marketing team has gone completely overboard on the superlatives. It just sounds way to good to be true. If it is too good to be true then it probably isn’t - and that is how this marketing approach is back firin... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD +1 on the filters - Benchmark overrides the ESS chip filters by ensuring the chip operates at 211KHz - even for Redbook - this mean the filters actually sit far above the audio (instead of close to the Nyquist ) and be extremely gentle such that t... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Per Steve’s last post above, this is exactly why hybrid ESS 9028 designs are way ahead of everything. The latest ESS designs are halfway between the R2R style and delta - sigma! The 9028 a 6 bit delta sigma by virtue of hundreds of 1 bit delta sig... | |
| Greatest Rock Drummers I saw Jason Bonham recently and he does a really great job of replicating the feel of his father while also having his own style (slightly more modern feel being more on the beat). I agree that the feel of John Bonham is hard to replicate - he rea... | |
| Dynamic compression in speakers themselves? Legacy Audio Focus is about 10K...that could float your boat If you are ok with used and going up to 15K then you should be able to get what you are after. +1 ATC SCM 100 as suggested by Phusis. If the 100 is far too boxy for you then ATC SCM 40 a... | |
| New Tweak --- Its Fantastic I understood extremely clearly - TC is amazing and nothing beats it not even an electronics upgrade! This is the wonder product of the millennium - and only $300 for a huge quantity! What a bargain. The fact that it only works fully after exactly ... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD The best explanation is the “measuring cup analogy” in Stereophile 1990. Nothing is “thrown away” - Delta-Sigma is just a different (more accurate measuring cup) method for conversion to analog. R2R methodology lost the technical battle about 20 y... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD All this “facsimile” and “guessing” is just marketing BS at best and misleading nonsense at worst. There is no guessing. Redbook defines the signal up to 22KHz perfectly and there is no guess when you oversample. In fact the oversample file contai... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD +1 SteveIn addition, it needs to be better understood that the ESS 9028 DAC is a massively parallel Delta-sigma DAC - in some implementations 512 delta-sigmas are summed in various ways to create a signal. Basically this ESS chip is a hybrid betwe... |