waterzlife
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| B&K ST-140 vs ex-442 sound charactor The original ST-140 model...70w/ch one with the gold-colored handles deivered the sweetest sounds...all higher powered models i have heard were harder sounding. | |
| suggestions for small speaker. floorstander of bookshelf. Platinum Audio Solo speakers, small 2-way, NO need for subwoofer...read: "the Solos in-room are flat down to 32Hz, and even make a brave try at reproducing the 25Hz band!"http://www.stereophile.com/content/platinum-audio-solo-loudspeaker-measureme... | |
| Powerful, smallish floorstanders with high WAF? Platinum Audio Solo's....except for some 'stats I owned, these are the most coherent, musical, smallish yet powerful speakers I've owned in my 40 years as a 'phile....and speakers my wife doesn't want me to move on from. | |
| Plinus 8200 MkII vs. Unico Nuovo with Totem Get the MkII Plinius...sweet and powerful....I personally preferred an outboard phono preamp to the one in the Plinius ( an old, old ss Superphon preamp phono section). | |
| What's up with the ridiculous offers?!? I've been an audiophile since the 70's....have been through a lot of used equipment as I love experiencing different preamps, amps, cartridges, tuners, speaker/power/tonearm/headshell/digital coax/interconnect wires/machines to clean records/CDs/t... | |
| How to get HIGHEST-rez signal into my dac from a BRP ??? Have any of you used an HDMI DE-EMBEDDER....to access the hi-rez audio that apparently is only available througfh the HDMI outputs ( and not the dumbed down digital toslink and coax outputs) ??? | |
| Who are the most underground high-end companies MUSICAL DESIGN by John Hillig. His amps are supremely musical and neutral. | |
| Amps which are Great, but either Unknown or Underpriced Musical Design amps by John Hillig - all are musical wonders! | |
| Oppo 93+EE MinimaxPlus vs Oppo 95? RE: "I am using an Oppo BDP-95 as a transport to an Eastern Electric DAC Plus and am very pleased with the result."QUESTION >> WHICH OUTPUT from the OPPO 95 do you input to the DAC?? (Oppo says the optical and coax output a signal inferio... | |
| Which is better,AV pre/pro o direct analog out? OR....would HDMI out to HDMI de-embedder to 2-ch stereo preamp to amp provide better movie sound in a non-surround, non-subwoofing home theater system? | |
| Center channel? Am i getting the full audio from a Bluray movie if i hook up 1) the Oppo 83 analog outputs LF and RF to the analog stereo inputs on my 2-ch preamp/DAC...and2) the C center channel output to a powered speaker centrally located?or would I be missing... | |
| MAC Mini video via HDMI & audio via USB? OR...you can send an optical digital signal to your DAC's Toslink input ...from your Mac's optical output ( it's in the headphone jack! ). | |
| Please show me how to listen to hi-rez audio embedded in films Willand,you suggest "Since your Bel Canto does not have HDMI, you must let the player decode and do the D/A converting and send it analog to your DAC."?? BUT sending an analog already dac'd signal to my Bel Canto does not compute....you mean to t... | |
| Please show me how to listen to hi-rez audio embedded in films Bob,you suggest "you can configure a BR player to do the decoding to PCM. Then just connect from the player's digital audio output to your DAC's digital audio input."BUTas per Oppo bdp103 owners manual, hi-rez audio can't be sent through the coaxi... | |
| Blu Ray Plyr for Two-Channel Stereo RCA Outputs ? Learning about Blu Ray....have been watching dvds through my 2-ch stereo.1) Do Blu Ray movie tracks come in very hi-rez digital format?? Some of them? All of them?? If only some, how can one find out what the audio track format is??2) I want t... |