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| Possible New DAC for Discrete Opamp Rolling You may have missed my suggestion, but if you want, keep your eye out for a used L.K.S. MH-DA003 DAC, which is the previous model (maybe on ebay or audiogon). These are excellent DACs and have sockets for swappable op amps. Not many DACs have the ... | |
| Possible New DAC for Discrete Opamp Rolling Hey douglas. None of these op amps will cause damage if they are put into an un-modified device. Don't even worry about that. They are all designed to work exactly as a standard monolithic op amp. However, these high current discrete op amps c... | |
| Possible New DAC for Discrete Opamp Rolling I tried the Burson V5 at one point and wasn't too terribly impressed. However, the new V6 Vivid op amps are excellent. Much better resolution and they sing! However, the best opamp I think are the Sonic Imagery 994Enh (or the 992 if you need a ... | |
| Looking for a SPDIF cable from Adiogon I have recently tested the Kimber DV30 (your existing cable) in both stock RCA terminations, Pasternack 75 ohm RCA, and DH Labs RCA-750 termiantions. I have come to the conclusion that it's an okay cable, but really not that good. It does appear... | |
| Interested in finding info regarding a well-designed NOS D2R DAC kit It's funny that you post this. I was just browsing around today and discovered that Audio-GD just released a R2R DAC board for DIY purposes. It's not terribly expensive, but it is not a complete kit and it does require some additional engineerin... | |
| Lexicon MC-12 You may have stuck yourself into a corner with this one. Not even remotes.com appears to have a pre-programmed remote (though you could call and ask them). Best I can see is that there is a Lexicon MC-12b on ebay *for parts or repair* that is li... | |
| Best budget preamp for my entry level system? The USP-1 is old, but it uses linear power supply and it looks like it even has a discrete audio stage. The new PT-100 is all op-amps on a single board with switching power supply. Also, Emotiva is not as cost effective as they used to be due to... | |
| Home theater help from scratch 5.2 25k budget I'm a big home theater guy and I disagree with millercarbon that a 2-channel rig in "phantom center" mode will sound as good as discrete 3 channels. It will sound nice, of course, but you will not have the directional aspect of a true center chan... | |
| Anyone else attend the California Audio Show in Oakland? Zesto did good, agreed. The Whammerdyne room was weird - it was one of those downsides. I'm not familiar with Whammerdyne, but the cut sheet suggests it is a non-conventional design. In any event, the room/speakers sounded really muffled. It ... | |
| Anyone else attend the California Audio Show in Oakland? Oh, If Old Forge / Sound Kaos was first place, the second place would go to the Margules Audio room (the Lyn Stanley room). | |
| Anyone else attend the California Audio Show in Oakland? Agree. Old Forge / Sound Kaos / Pure Audio was the absolute best in the show. I think this may have even beat 99% of the rooms are RMAF last year (at least in my opinion and preferred sound).I had the opposite reaction to the Tidal / Bricasti ro... | |
| Caveat about the Cable Company return policy Devil's advocate. The amount of cable offerings at "The Cable Company" is just absolutely huge. I don't know of any vendor that would have several hundred to thousands of cables in stock when sales are unknown. Unless they have a specific item ... | |
| PREAMP - Thoughts on Emotiva XSP-1 While the XSP-1 has a single fully discrete audio stage, the rest of the unit is jut littered with tons of op amps. Emotiva likes to use the opa2134, but they could also have some lm4562 variations. The Emotiva preamps are pretty good for the mo... | |
| HDMI or Optical for the long run to the projector? @mcmanus - I don't know if you went in a direction, but I have been getting really excellent results with the Ruipro fiber-optic HDMI cable for long runs. And it's cheaper than the Lifatec spdif optical. You can get a 6 meter (19.6 feet) Ruipro ... | |
| HDMI or Optical for the long run to the projector? I actually disagree with Eric on this one. With optical, the distance does not really matter because there is pretty much zero resistance when using light. Just make sure you get a really good glass fiber cable, such as Lifatec. Their cost for a... |