t_bone
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| AppleTV as my main digital source. Opinions? The only times I have ever used the standard toslink optical out of anything, I have preferred the coax (and that's a fair number of times, on both decent and far from decent digital sources). Both times I have heard a toslink vs USB implementatio... | |
| Can tube amps give true high end bass? Amfibius, Thank you very much for the explanation. I had ignored damping factor as a possible reason for this "resonance" because Jmaldonado talked about the amplifier rather than the amplifier/speaker interface. I realize that speaker impedance c... | |
| AppleTV as my main digital source. Opinions? My understanding is that the USB port is a "service port" only and is not configured for audio. I expect that you may find the "optical out to DAC" an acceptable but not very high-quality solution. I am wondering why you would not simply use your ... | |
| Can tube amps give true high end bass? Jmaldonado says...Besides, the higher output impedance of tube amps create the conditions for slightly undamped resonance that adds to the "joy" factor. The end result is a warm, rich bass around the 40-200 Hz region to which you have become accus... | |
| One's trash is someone else's treasure Artemus, LOL!Gemini, Hmmm... I'd keep the yard sale LPs under your hat too... | |
| Jadis Eurythmie - Anyone ever listen to them? Yet another suggested Spongebob Squarepants. | |
| Jadis Eurythmie - Anyone ever listen to them? Someone else suggested they look like Yosemite Sam. | |
| Jadis Eurythmie - Anyone ever listen to them? Dario, in terms of valuation, I have not seen enough pairs out there to know what "the market price" is, though I have a general enough idea about the general range of what it is where I live. It will also depend on whether it is the earlier versi... | |
| amplifier DB meters Someone years ago posted pictures of a custom Bottlehead Foreplay preamp they had built with voltmeters, walnut case (with jacks on the back) and a kind of burnished copper top plate. I just tried digging through the archives but no luck. I though... | |
| How international is your system? French speakers, American amps, Japanese TT/phono/cart/arm (with Canadian arm as well), Canadian digital setup, American cables, French wife, Japanese room, Central Asian textile "acoustic treatments", Danish "ergonomics" (chair). Only the TT/arm ... | |
| Best CD player money can buy ? MBL, Nagra, Naim? I was going to suggest the same thing as I think Mikelavigne suggested. If you buy a selection of SACDs of music you enjoy, you might find that it is worthwhile keeping the emmlabs. My opinion is that at this level of digital playback, it is the o... | |
| Recommended one make systems? Being half-facetious... Jadis makes (or made) everything you need (except turntables). And the current North American distributor makes cables to boot... I have heard good one-make systems from McIntosh (except CDP), Linn, Meridian, MBL, and recen... | |
| DAC in Japan Jsadurni,I had never heard of the brand. Interesting that they have a tube USB DAC. I will dig around to see if I can find any more about the company. | |
| DAC in Japan Buying DACs online in Japan is not noticeably cheaper than buying DACs online elsewhere, except possibly for products like the CEC line (and I say possibly because I do not know what street price for these components is outside of Japan). FWIW, to... | |
| Counterfeit Audio? Sbayne is right that there is probably a lot of this going on. The Cello Audio Etude in the auction/picture, however, is not likely to be one of those products. There were never enough of them made to drive that kind of activity and I believe they... |