shadorne
Responses from shadorne
| New CDP or standalone DAC...? By all accounts your Oppo is very good. So what are you looking for and can you describe the rest if your gear? | |
| Soundstage and explosive dynamics? Try to find a pair of used pro studio main monitors. These are the big speakers that are often mounted in walls - Westlake, ATC, Genelec. Meyer etc. | |
| Oppo Vs Esoteric I dont care for Marantz sound at all but I understand why some people may prefer it. | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Ozzy+1 Vanilla FudgeThere is another great cover of Season of the Witch by Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll - check it out - great audio quality too https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKZPEleI-U | |
| Please suggest bookshelf with best bass response under $4000 pr. +3 Dynaudio C1 or Totem Mani 2 (which also uses the Dynaudio woofer) | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio @willemj I agree that intrumentation is far more resolving and reliable than human hearing.However, it is still astonishing that we can hear up to 10 dB below the noise floor. Our hearing is very much like a spectrum analyzer. I dont subscribe to... | |
| Opening a can of worms There is no debate - everyone agrees that adding a filter (like the one in your Transparent cable) will change the sound often audibly. No debate at all. | |
| Opening a can of worms Looks like the transparent ultra cables have a black box which probably houses a filter.If you add a filter then it likely will sound different and audibly so in many cases.This is normal. This is what filters do. Of course at no cost you could us... | |
| Does a new cd transport require break-in time? Sorry to hear of your issues. You must be dissappointed. Hopefully you didnt damage anything through misuse and it is covered under warranty. | |
| Burning/breaking in new equipment? Excellent choice. Solid state will not need much if any break-in at all. Warm up thoroughly and good to go. Cables are wires and they dont wear. They may oxidize or corrode after about 50 years depending on humidity and salt in the air. Speaker wo... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @audioengr All the problems will be low level as the digital hash from inter-sample overs may not be audible until just after the transient. A bit like amplifier clipping where you don't hear problems on the transient itself as much as the distort... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Well mathematically there is nothing wrong with upsampling and it measures much better in most cases due to the less aggressive filter and because higher sample rates tend to improve DAC linearity. Perhaps it is the way inter-sample overs are hand... | |
| Does a new cd transport require break-in time? @geoffkait Ok so now faced with evidence directly from Oppo contradicting your statement, you run off on a tangent from break-in to wires, fuses and directionality?Clearly that snake oil is slippery stuff. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @audioengr It is a simple matter to use upsampling so that a gentle linear phase anti-alias filter can sit far away from the audio band and where it won’t be audible. There are ways to trick most DAC chips to employ this solution and avoid or bypa... | |
| Does a new cd transport require break-in time? @geoffkait Quote directly from Oppo website:""Break in" is a process of accelerated aging for mechanical, electronic, and acoustic components. By exercising the components for a period of time, early component failures can be weeded out and parts ... |