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| Rethinking Listening Fatigue Cw,I'm curious to know if you can relate the issue to specific recordings. Have you ruled out the recording yet? The displeasing sound you mention sounds like compression to me. For me, recordings that are highly compressed are very fatiguing, reg... | |
| Transport for DAC You can't use an external DAC for SACD or DVD-A playback. DACs decode a 2-channel PCM signal, not SACD or DVD-A. You need to have a SACD/DVD-A player connected to you pre-amp/processor using the analog outputs from the player, not the digital outp... | |
| 11 Amps, 1 TV, 3 Components...1 Receptacle Help Kal is right. You can have a whole house surge protection unit installed by your electrician or possibly even by your power provider. Here in Cincinnati, Duke Energy offers whole house protection. I think it is installed outside the house at the m... | |
| Ipod Dock with direct out????? I saw the Wadia at the AKFest in May. It's the real deal. I believe it is the only iPod dock on the market that takes a digital signal directly off of the iPod without the need to mod/deface the iPod. If you rip your music to iTunes in a lossless ... | |
| I Feel Overwhelmed....Please Help Macrojack,You are most welcome. I just ordered my Nuforce Icon today before the $199 intro price expires. I also ordered a pair of the 2M speaker cables.For anyone interested in this unit, check out the review on 6Moons:http://www.6moons.com/audio... | |
| I Feel Overwhelmed....Please Help Chap cat,Wanna try something completely different that may save you about $2800? Check out the Nuforce Icon Integrated Amp/DAC.The Nuforce Icon is a 12 watt/channel integrated amp based on Nuforce's digital amp technology. It contains a passive pr... | |
| why not use biamped studio monitors? My current 2-channel system is an EVS (Tweakaudio) Level-2 mod'd Oppo 970 universal player (CD, DVD, SACD, DVD-A, HDCD) using it's built-in volume contol and connected directly to a pair of Quad 12L Active speakers.This is easily the best bang for... | |
| Universal players as a transport Karo,My Oppo 970 has the level 2 mod from Ric Shultz at EVS (Tweak Audio). I highly recommend Ric for anyone that is interested in a mod'd player. BTW, my mod'd 970 is easily as good as any dedicated CD player I've ever owned up to $3500 units.Min... | |
| Remasters: which are the good ones? Nas and Ludimagis,The 95 MCA version is also the one I own. I agree that it is good, if not great. Way better than the 1984 original CD I also own.....TIC | |
| Universal players as a transport Oppo 983. $399 New with warranty and does everything at least as well as the one's you mentions. TIC | |
| Ken Parker's latest archtop "Spot" Wow! It's a beauty. I'm completely unfamiliar with Ken Parker guitars. Would I have ever heard these on any previous recordings?Enjoy,TIC | |
| Cincinnati, OH, any audiophiles? Hi Cinci-philes,I know Audiophiles in Cincinnati like to complain about the lack of hi-end dealers locally. Even if you take a drive to Columbus or Indianapolis you may not get a chance to see/hear much audiophile 2-channel equipment.Anyway, a cou... | |
| behringer reference? I was just listening to a system today that had those Behringer amps used in a multi-amp, actively crossed-over setup. The owner likes the amps and I admit they sound pretty good. However, he did tell me that he had to send the first four back bec... | |
| Speakers for a smaller room/moving issues... I've recently read some reviews of the Magnapan "wings" on-wall planars that were very favorable. Of course, they would require a small sub to work at all. I also saw a small pair of Maggies at the AKFest and they were pretty good. I don't know if... | |
| CDP Cary 308, Consonance 120 or Cambridge 740? I previously owned the Cary CD-308 and it was a good CD player. However, I wouldn't consider it particularly unforgiving. I consider it more neutral.A good friend owns the Consonance CD120 Linear (the non-oversampling version of the CD120) and he ... |