bill_k
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| Muddy Waters' The hi-res HDAD disc that Ben is commenting on is indeed Muddy Waters "Folk Singer" on the Classic Records label. | |
| Best type of stylus cleaner?? Chuck - Your concern is certainly justified regarding Mr. Clean liquid cleaners, but the references here are to using the Mr. Clean 'Magic Eraser' product for stylus cleaning. The original version of these is white and is chemical free. There have... | |
| Benefits using AES/EBU vs. RCA coax digital cables Al, thanks very much for your always helpful perspective and link to the article provided. | |
| Benefits using AES/EBU vs. RCA coax digital cables An AES/EBU XLR digital connection is generally preferred and often a bit warmer sounding than an RCA coaxial connection. While many manufacturers recommend that an RCA digital cable be at least 1.5 meters to minimize jitter, I'm not sure if the sa... | |
| Weiss DAC2 or W4S or PWD or Zodiac + or . . . Kiskaprince, please share more details on your experience with the APL DAC-S and what else you've compared it to. | |
| NuForce DAC-9 Mmeysarosh, I agree that this DAC has several design aspects which give it the potential to be an exceptional performer. Please let us know your impressions once you hear it, as I'd be most interested in your findings. Thanks in advance! | |
| Hegel Amplifiers Yes I have seen the review you linked to. Very impressive, comparing it to other mono amps up to $25K and overall still preferring the Hegel. I agree with this reviewer's assessment, but I have to admit that I haven't yet had the pleasure of heari... | |
| Hegel Amplifiers Congrats on acquiring the Burmester amp, which is quite an excellent performer I'm sure. Hardly what I would categorize as a "sleeper" though at around $30K. Enjoy your new amp! | |
| Hegel Amplifiers Talk2me, I believe that you may live to regret moving on from the Hegel. I've heard and owned a lot of amps over the years and the Hegel H20 is one of the best I've ever experienced. It has many of the virtues of low power pure class A amps, but w... | |
| Phono Cable "breakout" Any RCA interconnect can be used for phono, but since the cable is handling a much lower level signal than with line level sources some additional criteria should be considered. Suitable interconnects should generally be well shielded designs, sin... | |
| Phono Cable "breakout" If I understand the issue correctly with your setup, since the VPI tonearm has RCA jacks you can resolve it by using most standard RCA interconnects which are generally two separate cables. This would eliminate any problem with the wide spacing of... | |
| Perfect Wave DAC and Bridge The PerfectWave DAC itself does not contain the Digital Lens circuit which buffers the I2S digital data. I2S also transmits all of the clock signals independently from the data stream. You currently only get the benefits of the Digital Lens circui... | |
| Perfect Wave DAC and Bridge Desalvo55 - You might want to check out DVD Audio Extractor which allows you to extract high res digital audio from DVDs and DVD-A discs. It extracts the digital audio into WAV files, and even has a fully functional 30 day free trial. Sorry I can'... | |
| Surface Noise - another question If the noise is from the phono stage then it would be audible with the volume up even when the stylus is not on an LP, so that should be easy to determine. If it's actually coming from the stylus/LP interface, then I've found that the use of Styla... | |
| Electrocomp. vs. Hegel -The battle of Norway I would like to add my experience to the other users above in praising the exceptional sonics of the Hegel power amps. I recently replaced Cary Audio CAD-500MB mono amps with the Hegel H20. I'm driving Piega C-10 Ltd. speakers which utilize a coax... |