valschaf
Responses from valschaf
| Sonic Frontiers P-3: No Upgrade Not yet. I have a TacT RCS 2.0 between transport and dac, and TacT will have an upsampler board this summer. Meanwhile the RCS analog-digital converter can output 24/96 and I also have a DVD player in the system. | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? My wife caught me studying the TacT web site (I have a birthday coming up), and I started explaining what the RCS digital room correction gadget does. "It goes between the CD transport and the . . .," I began. "Yes," she put in, "it goes between t... | |
| SCD-1 mod in NYC area? There are 3, all on the West Coast, among whom only one, Richard Kern at Audiomod in Oregon, offers upgrade packages for the SCD-1. I've been in contact with him, and the reviews of his mod in this forum are impressive, but I'm just wondering if t... | |
| Are Sony SACD Machine Owners Crazy?? I find the sound quality of SACDs on the SCD-1 decidedly seductive, with great subtlety of detail, but with a very slight euphonic glaze on all disks--an artifact of the medium?--that is maybe a little too pretty to be true. However, CDs on the SC... | |
| Pops and hiss from Sonic Frontiers gear Thank you, Albert, this was exactly right. I used a kitchen spatula to tap the tubes, holding it by the rubber blade and tapping with the wooden handle, volume way down. The first 6922 in line on the right channel (and none of the others) produced... | |
| Sonic Frontiers Tech Support is Great My experience has been very positive. My new Phono-1 was marred by a loud hum. They shipped it back to me in 3 weeks and it now works beautifully. To my untrained eye it appears they replaced all the capacitors; they look different anyway, white M... | |
| Anyone ever opened MIT cables? I wouldn't disagree with the fellow who posted the above, and I wasn't implying that the Audioquest guy runs a charity, I was only repeating his little joke. He also said in the interview that what he and others in the industry are really selling ... | |
| Sonic Frontiers Preamp & Classe Amp For a couple of years I've been using a Line-2 with a CA-200 and they have made an ideal match. | |
| Anyone ever opened MIT cables? A couple of months ago one of the British hi fi mags interviewed the head of Audioquest (which doesn't put boxes on their wires). He asked rhetorically "What's in those boxes?" and replied "Profit margin." |