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David - Trigger-happy HTGuide Admin -
DAC's are a very interesting thing. Once you have speakers that cover the range and seem transparent, DAC's make the most impact IMO.
Especially for those of us spoiled by computer as a source, aka music server. Running a cal sigma dac right now, and being swayed by tubes. Also going to be trying out a theta unit.
I can't really get into upsampling though. I had tinkered with EMU sound cards and found that when I upsampled, I lost information. Someone try it, foobar or jriver upsample Norah Jones come away with me cd and I think it is seven days where a guitar solo gets faded. The engineer in me is perturbed by idea of adding resolution to 16bit/44.1 khz. Thus extremely interested in ack dack.
Right now, it seems that the tube output stage of the dac i'm using brings out a missing track or band so to speak. A friend wasn't impressed by same unit as he thought hi freq's were lost. Haven't picked that out yet myself. -
David, I hear you loud and clear, that is an awesome deal!
8OGot a nice rack to show me ?Comment
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Hello,
I've been getting by with a Korean made Calyx headphone USB DAC with an RA-04 amplifier and I have enjoyed it BUT finally I have some spare, non-assigned cash to use for an upgrade.
Originally, I was going to add a RB 1070 power amp from EBay but I have been outbid... -
Test Setup:
Speakers: B&W Nautilus 805
Integrated Amp: McIntosh MA6800
Source 1: HTPC w/ RME Hammerfall 9632 Soundcard
Source 2: HTPC w/ Musical Fidelity V-Dac (via USB)
Source 3: Marantz DV6001 DVD player w/ MF V-Dac (via digital coax)
* All sources...26 July 2009, 17:49 Sunday -
So I keep hearing people talk about DACs, given my background I generally know what they are... Digital to Analog Converters. I deal with them on a daily basis in my line of work. But my question is more on the audiphile side of things. I see people hooking them up to their computers, CD players,... -
Hi,all! The more I hear(read) about the improvements a DAC can make the more intrigued I am. I'm currently using a Marantz SA8260 and I'm very happy with the transport,and I tried running the digital out to my amp and wasn't thrilled with the converter in the amp. so I'm running the analog out of the... -
Hello folks...
I have received over $6,000 in Monster spk wire and inner's, which I paid $1,000. It was 130 feet for the "REF" Z3 & M1 spk cable. I use all the cable because I passive bi-amp my spks. Custom lenghts (4 meter) of 7 pairs of M1000i. Also I have M1000d,...
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