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| Advice on interconnect choice Just wanted to add: when I say "warmth" and "body", what I am really aiming for is a full-bodied, smooth sound especially with the likes of female vocals, which forms the majority of what I listen to. | |
| Advice on interconnect choice Hi there and thanks for the reply - gave me food for thought, especially about the applicability of cables and their sound to dedicated headphone systems.I have spoken to some Nordost owners who have said that the Heimdall is certainly warmer than... | |
| Advice on interconnect choice Thanks for the feedback. However, has anyone had specific experience with those 3 cables (Analysis Plus Solo Crystal, Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference II, Nordost Heimdall)? I currently have access to these - I live outside the US so not everything i... | |
| Should I be worried if buying a 5-6 year old CDP? Stanwal - yes, the one thing I noted is that the Classe sounds better to these ears. Thus it is not too much of a concern in terms of technology (it actually upsamples to 24/192 I believe so is no slouch in that respect); but more so age of the mo... | |
| Classé CDP-10 Impressions/Opinions? Thanks Tan43. Anyone else out there with some impressions / opinions, in partcular regarding the CDP-10 vs. the Marantz SA8001?CheersX | |
| CDP with inputs for DAC - Cambridge 840C- Unison Research Unico CD- Quad 99 CDP2 | |
| Recommendation for vacuum tube CD-player Triode Corporation TRV-CD4SE. It is a 24-bit 192kHz upsampling player using a 6922/6DJ8 tube; with both RCA and balanced outputs.The official product page is here and some impressions can be found in this review. | |
| 840C and MHDT Havana Just to add, whilst I continued my research, two other options which cropped up were the CIAudio VDA-2 with VAC-1 power supply, and the CEC DA-53. Anyone perhaps have any experience with either of these?RegardsX | |
| 840C and MHDT Havana Thanks for the reassurance fellas ;-)In terms of power filtering - yes, my entire system is connected to a medical-grade online UPS putting out a pure sinewave at a constant 220V....the power supply here in SA is notoriously bad for injecting nois... | |
| 840C and MHDT Havana Havana ordered, arrived, and within 20 minutes developed a loud hissing/crackling in one channel. I contact MHDT - they say it is likely a faulty PCM56P chip (not the first time they found this). Sending it back to them for a refund - do no want t... | |
| Apple 24 Bit 96 KhZ One of the reasons I use a Macbook (battery powered) for playback :-) | |
| Apple 24 Bit 96 KhZ Tbg - I believe you can, but don't hold me to it as I have not done that myself ;-) ...I usually rip with EAC to FLAC, tranfer files to the Mac and use Max to transcode to ALAC. That also provides an additional form of backup.For ripping directly ... | |
| Apple 24 Bit 96 KhZ Tbg - Max and WAV are two very different things altogether. WAV is the file format for uncompressed PCM audio (for PC), the Mac equivalent of which is AIFF. Max on the other hand is a Mac application, used for such tasks as secure ripping and tran... | |
| can sacd or dvda be transfered to i tunes? The hi-rez digital audio cannot be transferred. The album itself can be though in one of two ways1. ripping the CD layer, provided it is a dual format disc (some SACD's have solely the SACD layer)2. playing the SACD in real-time with analog input ... | |
| Apple 24 Bit 96 KhZ L.D. Moore - I noticed that too as my DAC has an external display which shows the locked signal sample rate. However, I asked around on various forums and it seems that the AudioMIDI sample rate changes when it's switched, but iTunes still locks o... |