tyan42
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| Is the DAC the digital equivalent of a cartridge. @mikelavigne I'm not an engineer, but an RiAA curve is nothing like converting digital info into analog signal. From my understanding an RIAA curve adjusts the high and low frequencies of the signal boosted by the phono stage. Phonostages are su... | |
| Is the DAC the digital equivalent of a cartridge. Sorry, the phono stage does not decode anything, all it does is boost/amplify the small electric signal given to it by the cartridge. No way is a DAC anything like a phono stage, there’s no boosting or amplifying in a standalone DAC. If you feed ... | |
| Is the DAC the digital equivalent of a cartridge. The phono stage just takes takes the information from the cartridge and amplifies it to line level; however, the DAC actually is in charge of decoding/converting/ reading the digital information that is fed into it. The DAC does no amplifying to ... | |
| Is the DAC the digital equivalent of a cartridge. Well the stylus reads the information in the groove, and the the DAC is supposed to read the digital 1 and 0. How well an instrument does these tasks makes me think that's why they're so important in the chain. I was watching Mike the OCD h... | |
| Any good tube headphones and headphone amps for vinyl playback? Schitt headphone amps have a pretty good reputation and value for money. I was thinking of pairing them with something like one of the better Audeze or Hifiman headphones. | |
| Any good tube headphones and headphone amps for vinyl playback? Doing some research spending the money on the headphones themselves seems to be what most do. Considering I already am using a phono stage which will be doing most of my amplifying, I can get by with a cheaper option headphone amp. | |
| Any good tube headphones and headphone amps for vinyl playback? I suppose my budget is flexible, but I’d like to spend no more than 2K on both amp and headphones. I like the tube sound as I use a VAC and Harbeth monitors. I’m flexible though, but I’ve always preferred tubes. | |
| Any good tube headphones and headphone amps for vinyl playback? Thanks, do you have any suggestions for headphone/amp combos that work well with vinyl? | |
| Pure tube phono preamp An all tube, no transformer, unprohibitively priced, phonostage seems to be a unicorn. Nothing against SUTs, it just seems like a shortcut and another thing in the signal path that could affect the sound. Doing my homework on this subject, I'm ... | |
| Pure tube phono preamp Does anyone know if current mode phono preamps use SUTs? I believe most phono preamps have them automatically built in. | |
| Pure tube phono preamp yes, no sut in the signal path, just pure tube gain and quietness. | |
| Separates or Integrated? What makes more sense? I was looking over recommended Integrated on TAS and Stereophile in the 10k range: The Pass Int-60, Moon 600i v2, Bat Vk 3000se, Octave Audio v 80 SE, and a few others. Any one of these in the category stand out? I do like vinyl and tubey sound. | |
| Separates or Integrated? What makes more sense? I guess the question I have is if a 5k amp and 5k preamp going to sound appreciably better than a integrated which cost 10k? The ability to build my own amplification combo by mixing and matching is attractive. On the other hand, good IA have an... | |
| Good transport for under 1K? Is Audio Advisor a good online retailer? | |
| Good transport for under 1K? Steve, Thanks, I read up in this Synchro-Mesh component you make. Very interesting stuff I never knew about how these things work. Is this product made by many other brands, or are you pretty much the only one sells them? Looks like a great pr... |