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| Upgrade DAC or Buy New I had Ric at EVS build me a set of monos using UCD700 modules and a standard power supply. They sound great. They are so effortless and fast. I had the Pp1 sent back to Vlad at Audio Mirror and updated with a new volume pot and some black gate cap... | |
| Upgrade DAC or Buy New The 1704 is a very good dac chip. My favorite is the BB TDA1541A/S2. Zanden uses the same chip in their dac. I am in the process of finishing a TDA1541A dac kit. I am using in the mean time a NAD T585 which is really amazing me. It may be the best... | |
| Upgrade DAC or Buy New Hi Smeyers,A good active preamp will fix your issue. I use an Audio Mirror Pp1. I use LP and CD. There are some really great reasonably priced preamps that will solve your problem without changing the sound of the system you have. I have not heard... | |
| Upgrade DAC or Buy New There is nothing wrong with an older dac. Zanden uses a dac chip from the late 80's early 90's in their $10k+ signature dac. Tubes are not new technology. If you like what you have and feel you need more drive to your amp than maybe a good used pr... | |
| Cal Audio DX-2 worth fixing for 350.00 Get the NAD T585 that I recommended in you other thread. I had a Cal CL2500. The NAD T585 blows it away! | |
| $500 - $600.00 preowned cd player suggestions There are new NAD T585 universal players being sold for that price on Audiogon. It lists for $1200.00 new. I purchased one a month ago and still can't believe how great it sounds on redbook cd's. I've had a $4K transport and dac combo that didn't ... | |
| NAD T585 and M55 Universal Players I am loving this player. I read that it doesn't convert SACD to PCM which is a good thing and only players above $1500.00 do it this way. I am so happy with standard cd quality that SACD should blow me away. People in the market for a player at th... | |
| NAD T585 and M55 Universal Players I just received a T585 and opened it up. The audio pc board and the video pc board both have M55 printed on them. The power supply doesn't so I am not sure. I have not listened to it yet so no comment on sound quality. I purchased it only for audi... | |
| Music Servers are they good? I am building Pedja Rogic's dac. I also have Thomas' TDA1541 dac ver. 2 from diyAudio and one more that uses the same dac chip as the Timbre unit (can't think of the name). I built DIY Paridise's Monica about a year ago when I built the DIY cd tra... | |
| Music Servers are they good? I am building a TDA1541/S2 dac and I have two other dacs. I want something to make my life simpler. I have about 200 cd's and would like to borrow more and put them on some sort of hard drive system without compression. I want to make it simple an... | |
| Your thoughts on preamp/processors I hear you. I had the same problem up until a month ago. I have a Pioneer plasma too and was using and ATI 7 channel amp and a Sherbourn 7010A processor. It sounded really good, but there was always the control problem for the rest of the family.M... | |
| My favorite Steely Dan song has to be... Dirty Work and Midnight Cruiser. I saw them last April. They didn't play either. | |
| Holy Moly Blu-Ray Disc Players below $300 HD-DVD is 17Gig a layer and Blu-ray is 25Gig a layer. There is talk of a 3 layer HD-DVD. I don't think storage is much of an issue. MY hd-dvd works fine (HD-A1), my PS3 80Gig. works better. It boots fast, upsamples great and so far Planet Earth is... | |
| Holy Moly Blu-Ray Disc Players below $300 Pzuckerman is right the PS3 was even ranked as one of the best blu-ray players. It's new software makes it 1.1 compatible and it can play some Divx movies. You have to purchase the 80Gig for the SACD the 40Gig won't do it. I also read somewhere th... | |
| will there be a collapse in processor prices HDMI is necessary for some DVD players to pass a HD-DVD sound signal. The new Toshiba HD players can only pass this via decoded PCM data through HDMI. If I used my HD-A1's optical output HD-DVD audio would not be possible.The Sony PlayStation 3 pa... |