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| Bidat vs Perfect Wave vs Weiss and others You should have gotten a good deal on the Minerva as it is replaced by their Dac 202. I heard a prototype at CES versus the Minerva and heard some improvements. We will see whether that holds in my system.I have often heard people say that they ca... | |
| Bidat vs Perfect Wave vs Weiss and others All that I can say is enjoy yourself. I agree that the disparity between the Minerva and the AMR is great, in the Minerva's favor. Anyone who says that you walked in a room thinking there was a live group perplex the hell out of me. I know no one ... | |
| Bidat vs Perfect Wave vs Weiss and others Some claim that all we can hope for in music reproduction is musicality. They don't mean realism, but merely that it is entertaining. This certainly is not my goal. In my 45 years as an audiophile, I have often thought that I was 95% of the way to... | |
| Bidat vs Perfect Wave vs Weiss and others Audiofun, as I implied, my experiences are entirely contrary. I still maintain that minor system differences make a world of difference and tastes certainly differ. I have never heard the realism I hear with the Mac/Amarra/Firewire/Minerva. I am n... | |
| Bidat vs Perfect Wave vs Weiss and others I just noticed this thread. All that I can say is that my experiences are greatly at odds with what has been said here. Initially, I just used the Minerva driven by several transports and a music server. With the exception of using it with the Opp... | |
| Synergistic New Tesla Line...Any comments? Bacardi, I have heard of the Sistrum stands, but none of the others. The Migs are largely like the cups in the ARTs. They would be little noticed. | |
| Apple Macintosh Music System I cannot find any Mnnc software?? | |
| Apple Macintosh Music System I have to try an external drive as the Mac Powerbook Pro computer drive does not permit the use of a cd mat while ripping to the hard drive. I also wish I could use RUR software. Nevertheless, the ripped cds using the Mac with Amarra, Firewire, an... | |
| Synergistic New Tesla Line...Any comments? I heard a demonstration of the Migs at CES on their Esoteric transport on a StillPoints rack of all things. The Migs made a substantial difference with one up and two down, if I recall correctly. That anything has much of an impact on the StillPoi... | |
| the oppo 83 special edition as a transport Mrtennis, I have used the Oppo not SE as a transport to drive two different dacs. One was the Minerva and the other the Exemplar/Xindak Dac5. I also used two other transports into both dacs. One was the Exemplar/Shanling SCD-3000 and the other the... | |
| Full Range Drivers Well, all I can say is that there is an exceptional single driver made by Feastrex that can be used to cover from about 60 Hz to well above 20K Hz. Actually there are two different drivers, one 5" and one 9." The 5" is the better driver and especi... | |
| Anyone heard the Nordost Odin cables ? Argyro, sorry to again have to say no. I only heard the Odin at the 2009 CES as compared with the Valhallas. Any were positively impressed with the Odins in that comparison, which obviously was the demonstrator's intent, but several of us on leavi... | |
| Apple Macintosh Music System Dspringham, it is difficult to say more than the music sounds more effortless. The depth of the image and the resolution of details improve. Sonic Studios has a list of things to turn off in improving your Mac as a server. This IMHO is the most im... | |
| Choice between Weiss Minerva & Berkley Alpha DAC Dracule1, no I did not. It would be difficult to do except to disadvantage the Minerva by using S/P DIF. What I heard was in two systems but with the same recordings used, both from Mac server. | |
| Apple Macintosh Music System Argyro, I plan to try it after I get back from skiing, but I have heard different conclusions about which is better. As I say above, Amarra is outstanding. I am also curious about using Pure Vinyl and digital RIAA equalization of LPs. Could it be ... |