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| Anyone try the Purist digital isolation adapter? Thank you Natan 6355 for your initial report.Interesting, you comment that "Going from wired to wireless on the same song I felt the need turn the volume down 1 step on my CAT preamp " says a lot because Ken Stevens steps are of few dB each - I al... | |
| SACD player with digital input I agree with Fafalon. The least expensive SACD Player with digital receiver, I am familiar with is KI Pearl (Toslink) | |
| Electrocompaniet class D ? "class AB amps power supply should be clearly visible "There is no such thing as class A power supply or class B power supply.I don;t know, of course what there but if there is no visible transformer then this amp may have high quality switching p... | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps " using an autoformer I think I will use my tube amp with built in transformers"Totally agree, provided its high quality amp | |
| gold lion 12ax7 , au7 Hi Leatherneck1812,I am very interested in your comparison between reissue Gold Lion 12AU7 and RCA Clear Top. I love the later for its "magic" midrange and rather good highs and bass.Please continue to update us (me..) with the results.Thank you i... | |
| Bi-amp at 140 watt each, or single 200 watt? " ...I think I need more headroom. "Well, if you need more headroom then don;t look at higher continius (rms) power. Search amplifiers with highest PEAK POWER (current, voltage and their duration at given distortion level) you can afford. | |
| Anyone try the Purist digital isolation adapter? "and instead of using it wirelessly i attached a high end Audioquest ethernet cable. "Hello,Did you compare the sound between these two ?Thank youSimon | |
| PS Audio PWT / PWD digital connection Toniprony,I you really want combination of PWT/D then ask PS Audio to chanhe RCA to BNC as an option. You will pay may be $100 extra... call them. | |
| filter set up in esoteric sa-50 " I know it's down to personal taste "You are absolutely right. Everybody is different. I clearly heard artifacts when upsampled Red Book or transfer it to DSD. Thus I kept it original. Filter I prefered was Short-Delay (may be less warm, ite true... | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps "I must admit I am a little confused here. Two posters have said OTL amps are thin sounding? "You should not be confused. When (OTL) amp and speaker is matched poorly then sound is bad (thin, fat what have you).When properly build (OTL) amp is mat... | |
| Thought on OTL tube amps "Blow a tube with your OTL and you could fry your speakers. Great sound, but some risk if you listen loud, or run tubes till they drop "Properly designed OTL amp represent no more danger to speakers then properly designed regular tube or transisto... | |
| Importance of Damping Factor and Current for amps High dumping factor, IMO, is useless as I never know will it help or not.There are some amplifiers with 5000 - 6000 dumping factors which cannot handle difficult load.On the contrary, high current delivery , is always, always useful and its diffic... | |
| Need more inputs in preamp, what to use? Decware is a good choice for more then reasonable price, IMO... | |
| Ripping NAS - RS3 vs. RipNAS CD ripper, obviously, can work only with Red Book CD's. When you will wish to use hi-rez "DVD" like 176/24 of Reference Recording or hi-rez downloads then its useless to you. So, I feel, its better to keep NAS and ripper separately for separate up... | |
| Anyone compared BAT Rex vs. Atmasphere MP-1? Hello,I am not familiar with MP-1 except its excellent reputation. I am familiar with REX and its the best (along with my current Joule-Electra LA-300ME) preamp I ever auditioned or used.When I heard REX first time (using my reference tracks) my j... |