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| Tube preamp, Leave On Always or ON/OFF? I substantially agree with Jfrech. Mine is a tradeoff. I use a very difficult to obtain tube with a 10,000 hours usable life. This is about a year and a half when always on. It takes my preamp about 2 hours to reach its peak, and I typically use i... | |
| Am I really smart or really stupid? RIAA ain't a big deal??? I think you are smug in assuming you can get something good at a price that precludes better components. As someone has already said, you are certainly not enlightened but probably not stupid. If you don't value realism in... | |
| What makes a system compelling? I am inclined to believe it is a fleeting happening. I have frequently had it on the introduction of something new, but I think you become accustomed to it quickly and are less impressed the next night. Unfortunately often you might be impressed o... | |
| EMM Labs CDSD / DCC2 - Initial Listening Session Keep up your guard and sell your preamp, you fool! | |
| EMM Labs CDSD / DCC2 - Initial Listening Session Others suffer from delusions of grander and of unwarranted sense of authority. | |
| EMM Labs CDSD / DCC2 - Initial Listening Session I guess I am painted with the broad brush as a "money boy" for whatever use there is in this blah, blah. I would agree about the continuum from great detail with a lack of harmonics to a more "musical" harmonically rich sound. I also think there i... | |
| EMM Labs CDSD / DCC2 - Initial Listening Session Given my other posts extolling the virtues of the Exemplar over the EMM, please don't assume that I am caught up in the rush to the DCC2/CDSD combo. I now am fairly confident that it is superior to the DAC6/Phillips sacd 1000 combo, which my Exemp... | |
| EMM Labs CDSD / DCC2 - Initial Listening Session I disagree with Brucegel. Given the overall message in this thread, I think buyers are very happy with what they are hearing with this combo and more importantly for me, they find it better than the DAC6/Phillips 1000 combo which I have heard.Grea... | |
| soundstage If you have the 811 horn in your Altecs, it is not time aligned. I think that speaker placement affects standing waves in the bass which can affect your ears sense of depth.I think mainly, however, that electronics can greatly affect soundstaging.... | |
| EMM Labs CDSD / DCC2 - Initial Listening Session Good points, Ceol. Is there a DCC6 coming? On another thread there is obviously pressure on moders to do 6 channel mods on players, not that I have any interest. | |
| EMM Labs CDSD / DCC2 - Initial Listening Session The only thing vital in all of these posts is that the DCC2 sounds considerable better than the DAC6/Switchman combo. If given a chance, I certainly will give it a listen, and I would love to have it side by side with the Exemplar/H-Cat combo. | |
| EMM Labs CDSD / DCC2 - Initial Listening Session It would be a shame were the improvement to be in software as that was supposedly an easy update for EMM equipment. But maybe it is the built in preamp. | |
| Want more high frequency extension Murata supertweeters. 15k - 100k Hz, no crossover. | |
| EMM Labs CDSD / DCC2 - Initial Listening Session Why is it better? Is it all the transport? | |
| what does "too dark" mean The opposite of "too bright." |