highdudgeon Wrote:
Actually, I have it on pretty good authority (an MD), and there is
information out there to back this up, that the average (average) 40
year old male tops off at around 14khz. That's assuming no lifetime of
regular rock concerts and airport tarmacs. By age fifty, that
Hi John,
welcome to the forum! It sounds like you've done precisely right thing
- the only isynchronous digital link in your system is that short I2S
cable, and you're clocking from the DAC which should result in just
about the lowest jitter system possible. Personally it's never been
clear
reeve_mike Wrote:
I have two sources: a SB a dcs Verdi.
For CD replay these feed a dcs Elgar+ via a dcs Purcell upsampler.
The whole replay chain is synch'ed via a dcs Verona clock
(the SB path is modified to include a word clock input).
If I have ripped a CD I play it via the
I wanted to end this thread by pointing out a solution that may or may
not work with your system if you have been suffering from the same
problems. This little fix has been marvelous for me! It has brought
real audio quality to what I considered to be at first a bright,
austere and
Very cool!
What are you doing for volume control? (To me, once of the nice things
about SB is the convenience of a volume control from the one remote).
Have you thought about taking off the PCM1748's mode control lines to
drive an analog attenuator after your DAC?
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inguz
Lyonesse Wrote:
I simply changed my interconnects around (black to red, red to black) on
my dac. I cant explain why but this simple thing has toned down
sibilence and created a much more dynamic punchy sound without the
wearyness that quickly took over any listening pleasure.
Perhaps the act
I've had both a decent pair of Grados and currently use Sennheiser
HD600s. They both sounded great, but after 45min of using the Grados
the edges of my ears were raw. The Sennheisers are like like wearing
fluffy bunny clouds on your head, and they sound amazing. I use them
for monitoring
A tiny thing about the sennheisers, but a big one for me:
The wires actually plug into the cans. The wires are quite long, so
you'll probly step/trip over them, roll over them with your chair,
whatever. If your walking with the phones on and you step on the cord,
they just unplug from the
I have been thinking of getting a 1Tb external Lacie drive. Lacie seem
to be the only people making 1Tb external hard drives.
Do I have any other options other than Lacie for 1Tb?
thanks
andrew smith
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norderney
cliveb Wrote:
Well, I've not quite got to 50 (I'm 49), but this thread prompted me to
test myself, and I can still *just* make out 16.8kHz. I don't consider
myself to have especially wonderful hearing (my wife often complains
that I don't hear her :-). I've been to my fair share of rock
cliveb Wrote:
Well, I've not quite got to 50 (I'm 49), but this thread prompted me to
test myself, and I can still *just* make out 16.8kHz. I don't consider
myself to have especially wonderful hearing (my wife often complains
that I don't hear her :-).
This reminds me of a recent visit to
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