dustych
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| tube headphone amp? I'm taken care of (thank you Brooklyn Audio), but for anyone else who's reading: Add EAR to the list. It may not be on their website, but I received an email telling me that they do indeed now sell a headphone amp. It's really nice that a lot of t... | |
| Alesis MasterLink CD-R/Hard Drive record That is true and false at the same time. Yes, it's true that any sampling rate other than 16/44.1 is not going to work in any other "normal" player, but then again, there is no standard for anything else. OTOH, they also use a standard CD-ROM form... | |
| Dither,wordlength,jitter? Yes, all CD transports output 16-bit words. Not sure how much of an improvement a 24-bit DAC provides on 16-bit words _without upsampling_ (jury is still out on this). A good 16-bit DAC is still better than a bad 24-bit DAC. But the general consen... | |
| Beautiful Speakers O'Heocha are by far the best looking speakers I have ever seen: http://www.o-d.co.uk/d2.htm is where they can be seen. Not for everyone, though. Especially not if you are into wood. But I am getting the black chrome ones. | |
| Best Retailer Youve Done Business With? I have had good experience with Simply Music, thetubestore.com, and Brooklyn Audio. The only thing I've ever had go wrong with Audio Advisor is that they sold my shipping address (my address at work) to some mailing list, and that's not really som... | |
| CD Transport to DAC Timing/Jitter Redkiwi is pretty much correct -- lost focus and soundstaging. It's pretty hard to describe, until you hear it go away. Also, the explanation I was talking about is at this address: http://www.lcaudio.com/dacdrev.htm -- this is a company that sell... | |
| what is everybody listening to right now Cure - Bloodflowers; Under the Sun - s/t; Pink - Can't Take Me Home; lined up: Kinks - Low Budget; Laika - Good Looking Blues; ...oh, wait, never mind, Battlebots is on! (-: | |
| CD Transport to DAC Timing/Jitter First of all, a couple of corrections to minor inaccuracies in your post. First, both zero's and one's are represented within transitions (there are always transitions around the actual data). So a solid run of zero's (or one's) are not represente... | |
| Class "A" solid state vs. Tube amp.? Dekay: the A3CR is MF's top of the line amp. It feels like it weighs 40 lbs., and 35 of them are the transformers. It has consistently gotten excellent reviews. Several of the reviews have hinted at the fact that it's secret is probably the choke ... | |
| DSP Devices for Room/Speaker Correction Dekay: you crack me up. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, as applied to audiophilia. | |
| Male audiophile seeking Female audiophil "...will have sex for stereo..." Not me, but I picture a more desperate version of the original poster with the above sign. I feel for you, brother. Maybe you should hang out at hi-fi shops more. I _have_ seen women there. Or maybe go to the conve... | |
| Best DAC Under $5000 - Opinions Please I have not heard the MSB Tech. Link Platinum, but it is on my short list with the Camelot Uther Mk III V. 2 (or whatever it is). | |
| Best solid-state amp made anywhere Musical Fidelity A3CR, hands down | |
| Class "A" solid state vs. Tube amp.? I agree with most of the above posts. The difference really rears its head when distortion occurs. I just prefer the sound of tube distortion. I would rather have 1% of tube distortion (or whatever my Jolida JD102B is) than .001% of solid state (o... | |
| headphone pre-amps Can't compare to a good linestage preamp with a headphone output, but according to Headroom itself, they consider the best tube headphone amp the Cary, which really is such a preamp, just happens to have a headphone jack. I can comment on the MF, ... |