vicdamone
Responses from vicdamone
| PS audio Perfect Wave DAC MKII or Metrum Octave Any update on your DAC decision? I'm a two chassis Octave owner thinking of reconfiguring my digital front end and the Metrum's limited I/O has me looking around. At the time I immediately bonded with the soul of the Octave and am very apprehensiv... | |
| Bob Carver 180 Mono-blocks perform superbly There's a good image of the under side wiring on the Carver LLC site > Products > Images > VTA 180 jpegs. | |
| Hegel h200 low level listening Its my experience that some speakers have a problem maintaining their full range (ness) at low volume and not the electronics. | |
| Goodbye Sonos, hello ???? Knghifihttp://meicord.de/index.php?id=82&L=3 | |
| Tube DAC, be gentle first time Don't take this as critical, it's simply my take. I think you need to look beyond the vacuum tube. I use tubed pre, phono, and mono blocks. In the DAC world some might say the analogy of solid state and tubed is sampling and non over sampling or N... | |
| about the kt 120 tube Another very good experience with the Psvane 12AX7T. | |
| Most accurate speaker While the scale you're seeking may be more a product of the speaker system and the room, accuracy is more an issue of the recording IMO.I'm a sixty-four old musician and my hi fidelity experience hearing is far from golden but I can easily hear ma... | |
| 5.1 under 4k? What speakers and sub are you currently using? | |
| Dedicated circuit We moved into an early seventies suburban above ground ranch style home. The town is mostly underground wiring. Before I had done anything I was auditioning the PS Audio HCA-2 class D switching amplifier. The clock radio in the bedroom was picking... | |
| Need Advice on Subwoofer Selection You should understand that most all the recordings you own went through post production mixing where subwoofers were used. While there are a very few passive full range speakers they all have the inability to provide the increase or decrease in lo... | |
| From separates to reciever? Is there an integrated amplifier with HT connectivity and codecs?Going to a receiver I'd be shopping for quality room correction and amplification. | |
| Upgrading from Thiel CS3.6 to Avalon Do you mean the Avalon Acoustics Compass? I have a pair of Eidolons and they may very well be my last speaker. I never liked their presentation in stores or at shows. When I brought a pair into the house it was like hearing them for the first time... | |
| spdif/USB converter vs DAC upgrade So, to be clear. I'm running Pure Music with a Mac Mini (10.7.5 Lion?) which has the changed core audio API?Any suggestions with this system?Comcast modem > ethernet cable > Mac Mini 10.7.5 Pure music (Samsung Blu-ray Disc) > MeiCord ethe... | |
| spdif/USB converter vs DAC upgrade Damn, this is the first I've heard of this detail of compatibility. Makes me take a step back and wonder just how much more fidelity is lurking in my systems or if some of my choices are fundamentally correct. | |
| spdif/USB converter vs DAC upgrade Doggie, I'm using Mac and Pure Music. Is that Direct/Integer? |