Machine Dynamica Wrote:
> Machina Dynamica produces the Clever Little Clock with the kind
> permission of PWB Electronics.
Hm... there's a clue ;)
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My little home office system is NAD C325BEE, Epos ESL-3, SB3 (no DAC),
some kind of Rega flattish speaker wire. Enjoy it immensely!
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SB2(2),SB3(1),Linn Kairn, Linn LK 100, Musical Fidelity X-Ray v3, B&W
802 S3, Epos ELS3, NAD 325BEE, Spica TC-50, etc.
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P Floding;188495 Wrote:
>
> Seems the jokes never end on this kind of sites.
> Are those testimonials fake? I hope so, at least...
In this situation, the proper term is not "fake" but "schill".
TD
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tyler
P Floding;188928 Wrote:
> In that case, strictly speaking, you can only add things to the audio
> chain before the microphone and after the loudspeakers. It's not as if
> an electrical signal is sound.
Robin was pointing out that you wouldn't be adding anything redundant,
like sending analog to a
Seems that this "upgrade" (the new unswitched power outlet) was more
significant for sound quality than I thought. The sound improvement has
been fundamental. Of course, it could all be placebo, but then again, we
might all be imaginary as well.
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P Floding
No, I didn't ABX it. And I won't ev
Robin Bowes;188857 Wrote:
> jgueron wrote:
> > I disagree with Pat Farrell, when he says "There can be no audio
> > quality improvement in adding
> > anything to the audio chain"
> >
> > I conneted the SB3 to a DAC, the Benchmark DAC1, and the
> improvement
> > in quality of sound was remarka
Damn I think I'll just chuck my fancy wires and just rewire with some
lamp cord and them freebie cables that came in the box... Hey Opie sure
you ain't related to Julian Hirsh?? He could never hear any differences
either, lol
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ErikM
Bob Bressler;188911 Wrote:
> Jean,
> That card looks like it might be optimized for microphones or at least
> other balanced devices. Is there a way to get S/PDIF out to go to a
> DAC?
If you read the web page linked, it seems fairly obvious:
Digital Output
* XLR AES/EBU (balanced), galvanic is
Jaco;12 Wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> Thank you for the informative reply regarding jitter in the
> Transporter. Given that so much attention is given to the jitter in the
> design of the Transporter and that the results measured by the Miller
> test aren't really relevant, then the results of the H
Jean,
That card looks like it might be optimized for microphones or at least
other balanced devices. Is there a way to get S/PDIF out to go to a
DAC?
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Bob Bressler
Bob
Audio Note CDT-Two->Audio Note DAC5 + Slim Transporter->Spectral
DMC-20->Kassai amp->Audio Note AN Es
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You're asking him to explain the subjective impressions of some biased
reviewed? He's an engineer, not a psychologist.
Do they really use peak-peak results? Meaning the largest deviation
from the ideal between two edges that occurs in some sample? If so
that's an incredibly stupid way to chara
Can I get your opinion on this model? I miss the warmth of my tube
system, but my wife enjoys the easy of use of our current system and is
keeping my budget low. Do you think the CAL Sigma II can add some depth
and warmth to my current SB3 / Marantz / B&W system?
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kphinney
SB3 -> Marantz Z
mmg_fan;11 Wrote:
> It seems that the general consensus is that solid state components
> definitely DO benefit from a warm-up AND break-in/burnin time. This is
> something that is measureable.
>
There is no such consensus.
Suppose such a thing were true. In order to make an audible
dif
Might I suggest you have a peep over at www.head-fi.org
They've got HEAPS and HEAPS of stuff in their forums on good cans.
Instead of 'noise cancelling' have you considered 'Isolation' based
cans?
Ones that come to mind are made by:
Etymotic Research
Shure
Ultimate Ears
I own a pair of the Ety
adamslim;188811 Wrote:
> Yeah there are soundcards that are meant to sound good. I bought an
> Audigy 2 hoping it would one of these, and, err, it wasn't. Turns out
> it upsamples everything to 96kHz internally. Whatever, it is worse as
> a digital source than a reasonable CD player (my old Ar
So when I put in a new set of speakers cables and they sound bright,
grainey and lack bass, but after playing music through them for X hours
and they don't sound that way anymore it's a placebo effect?? Because
if the system still sounded like crap I'd return the cables... I only
ask beause when
Hi Sean,
Thank you for the informative reply regarding jitter in the
Transporter. Given that so much attention is given to the jitter in the
design of the Transporter and that the results measured by the Miller
test aren't really relevant, then the results of the Hifi News review
still begs the f
It seems that the general consensus is that solid state components
definitely DO benefit from a warm-up AND break-in/burnin time. This is
something that is measureable.
As for speaker cables, from what i've read, the general consensus is
that any perceived diffrence in quality after a break-in t
So do all their amps sound the same before and/or after burn-in?
:-)
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thomsens;188706 Wrote:
> The sample CD I chose was Santana's Shaman. So I guess this fits in the
> "busy" category. For reference, the CD took up 519Mb for FLAC and it
> was only 138Mb for extreme MP3 VBR. That's a 3.75 x the disk space,
> which is amazing since the MP3 sounds great at that qu
hi
What I am looking for probably doesn't exist but i though i'd ask
anyways.
I have a pair of Grado SR-80's and old Sennheiser HD 495's
What I am looking for is a new pair of noise cancelling headphones that
sound as good as the Grado's (the best sound I have heard yet in
headphones) , are as
Here's a thought. Why is it that every audio designer/engineer that I've
ever spoken to or read comments from has commented that their gear needs
to burn/break in to sound it's best? These are guys like William Johnson
( Audio Research), Dan D'Aagostino ( Krell), Charley Hansen ( Ayre),
etc.. Thes
jgueron wrote:
> I disagree with Pat Farrell, when he says "There can be no audio
> quality improvement in adding
> anything to the audio chain"
>
> I conneted the SB3 to a DAC, the Benchmark DAC1, and the improvement
> in quality of sound was remarkable!
> Please try it!
Ah, but strictly spea
seanadams;188843 Wrote:
> Actually, it suppresses EMI from coming _out_ of the box.
Tee Hee,
M.
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amcluesent;188356 Wrote:
> (hence the ferrite-core on the wire to suppress this)
Actually, it suppresses EMI from coming _out_ of the box.
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ErikM;188827 Wrote:
> Markhh2, sorry but you posted to the wrong forum. This is the
> Anti-Audiophile forum where break in doesn't exist and eveything sounds
> the same FWIW the digital mod is a nice improvement for $200.00...
LOL - however actually I was wrong...after the initial euphoria o
If you have a good DAC you are wasting money with the mods, IMO, they
made no difference in my system. The anolog mods do improve the sound
but not as much as a good DAC.
Stock SB with elpac into Lavry DAC10 or comparable will rival pretty
much anything out there.
If you want to spend more, get
Markhh2, sorry but you posted to the wrong forum. This is the
Anti-Audiophile forum where break in doesn't exist and eveything sounds
the same FWIW the digital mod is a nice improvement for $200.00...
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ErikM's
Pat Farrell;188819 Wrote:
> jgueron wrote:
> > I disagree with Pat Farrell, when he says "There can be no audio
> > quality improvement in adding anything to the audio chain"
> >
> > I connected the SB3 to a DAC, the Benchmark DAC1, and the
> improvement
> > in quality of sound was remarkable
adamslim;188811 Wrote:
> Yeah there are soundcards that are meant to sound good. I bought an
> Audigy 2 hoping it would one of these, and, err, it wasn't. Turns out
> it upsamples everything to 96kHz internally. Whatever, it is worse as
> a digital source than a reasonable CD player (my old Ar
jgueron wrote:
> I disagree with Pat Farrell, when he says "There can be no audio
> quality improvement in adding anything to the audio chain"
>
> I connected the SB3 to a DAC, the Benchmark DAC1, and the improvement
> in quality of sound was remarkable!
You are correct. I was a bit sloppy in
I disagree with Pat Farrell, when he says "There can be no audio
quality improvement in adding
anything to the audio chain"
I conneted the SB3 to a DAC, the Benchmark DAC1, and the improvement
in quality of sound was remarkable!
Please try it!
Regards
Joe Gueron
Pat Farrell;188363 Wrote:
That's interesting...the first few miles or so the car is breaking
in...after that, it's breaking down :o)
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Yeah there are soundcards that are meant to sound good. I bought an
Audigy 2 hoping it would one of these, and, err, it wasn't. Turns out
it upsamples everything to 96kHz internally. Whatever, it is worse as
a digital source than a reasonable CD player (my old Arcam Alpha 5+,
both into a Meridi
Nostromo;188695 Wrote:
> I don't know, I prefer investing in something that makes a real
> difference, like the speakers.
Lots of people say this. Sure, it's dead easy to tell the difference
between speakers, but I always find it's the source components that
really affect my enjoyment of the so
Phil Leigh;188623 Wrote:
> Hmmm...funny how break-in NEVER makes things sound worse...
how do you mean 'never'? for example, brand new car has a life
expectancy, say 250K Km. That same car, after being properly broken in,
after 20 000 Km, has now a life expectancy of 230K Km. So, new was
better
It sounds like the PC resamples everything to 48kHz, or does your DAC
indicate otherwise?
I'd like to do this comparison as well, but after nixing kmixer and
using toslink from my cheap soundcard to my cheap DAC, which the
Squeezebox usually feeds via coax s/pdif.
Triode posted a plugin in the d
One caution about MP3 (which you've probably heard) is that it is still
"lossy" compression. That means that part of the sound is simply thrown
away as "unimportant." That makes MP3 a very efficient format for file
size reduction, but once those bits and bytes get tossed, they are just
gone.
MP
Nostromo;188701 Wrote:
> My guess is that it depends mainly on the room you put it in and on the
> amp. As for $100k speakers, ask the happy few who can afford them ;)
> But I would assume that for traditionnal speakers (monkey coffins), the
> law of diminishing returns jumps in at about $4K or
johann;188628 Wrote:
> BTW, I have now a new Musical Fidelity DAC for test, the X-DACv8. First
> impression is a better sound than the X-DAC-v3 but I need to listen
> some more and then also try to AB test it. :)
I'd be really interested how it compares with the Transporter. I have a
V3 I use wi
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