sonicbeauty
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| Ayon Spirit III and Klipsch Cornwalls experience? Mountainsong your comment ''Ayon gear it is hard to beat in many ways including aesthetics and 3D sound''Everything is subjective of course. I owned a nice Ayon Orion integrated for about a year. Identical family styling genes to the Spirit of cou... | |
| Listener fatigue: what does it really mean? Listener fatigue? That's an easy one for me: Kenny G | |
| Oppo BDP-105 vs. Van Alstine vs. Azur 840C? If you liked the 840C, you would probably have liked the new AZUR 752BD (I own both) over the Oppo machine.Widescreen Review issue 175 where both the Oppo BDP-105 and Cambridge Audio Azur 752 BD were compared by Doug Blackburn:Quote:'' The 752BD h... | |
| Odd length speaker cables Zydo. I agree with your statement:''I don't believe 99.9% of people could tell the difference. Granted, its not optimal, (on paper) but, can YOU hear it? In a blind test, I would put my money on no every time.''And Kr4's scientific contribution:''... | |
| Odd length speaker cables My unusual set-up requires 16ft on one side and 9 ft on the other. I have tried every possible combinations. Equal lengths with one side coiled, equal lengths with no coiling but a mess, name it. Cheap cables, expensive cables, homemade cables, Ho... | |
| Is the ''entry level'' DAC becoming extinct ? Actually, I did have an HRT Streamer in my system for a week on loan, to my ears anyways, it was nowhere near as musical or as resolving as the DacMagic Plus. But then again, I had this on some pretty high-resolving speakers.I still think that $60... | |
| REVIEW: Meng Yayi KT88 Monoblocks Gee,I hope folks will get to the part of the story where the thing ends up in flames, and not just stop at reading your review where all is A-OK. Such a long glowing article on how great the stuff from China is - NOT ! You learned the hard way to ... | |
| Does the volume control effect sound quality? After two glasses of wine, no way ;) | |
| Is the ''entry level'' DAC becoming extinct ? I think I may have incorrectly expressed myself in the original question.I was thinking of the DAC's becoming irrelevant for those still wishing to plays CD's while wanting to use an DAC for other inputs.Also, qualifying DACS such as the HRT Strea... | |
| CD player with digital input I am going from a Cambridge 840C to the just released 752BD Blu-ray player with accessible DAC. But only because I own some SACD's and DVD Audio disks and wish to play them.Otherwise I would keep the 840C, it is an incredible machine.Review don't ... | |
| HDCD Decoding ? Sorry, meaning cd's not albums of course ! | |
| HDCD Decoding ? You mention that you have a few hundred albums. If you are judging only by the HDCD logo showing on the packaging that's one thing. But in reality, I would be surprised if you only had 6 cd's with HDCD encoding. I myself have a surprising number w... | |
| How much does your system retail for? Exactly $ 567,045.08.....and that's just the cables.Now talk about a bragging-rights thread. Makes me want to reconsider this hobby. | |
| Raysonic gone belly up, is this a hoax? Read on... This subject is not about Raysonic products or product quality, but about whether they did close shop leaving their employees out in the cold or not. | |
| sansui or yamaha Runnin...I have owned many of those '70s units over the years. The units I referred to in my previous post were just two exemples, and they do representent a good yardstick to measure by.There are exceptions to every rule of course, such as a few ... |