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| Review: Audio Aero Prestige SACD Player reference CD Player Update on new Sony transport upgrade and Hifi tuning fuse.See Prestige SE Transport Upgrade.I tried a Hifi-Tuning fuse (T500mA) on this player. It definitely affects sound. After a few hours of burn-in, it sounded like someone threw blankets over ... | |
| Audio Aero Prestiges new transport? It's great to see many Prestige users. To get best performance, I suggest you disable the Analogue input board:1. Remove top (16 screws)2. Input board connects to motherboard using a ribbon cable3. At each end unclamp cable by gently pulling on si... | |
| AA Prestige is replacing transport?????? Yes, there's a new transport out. Mine should arrive soon as my second Philips transport failed. Will be interesting to compare with my computer transport feeding 24/96 to Prestige SE. Philips transport came of second best by quite a margin. | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? By design a computer will always output a superior digital signal. Bit-perfect data is read from harddisk to memory then upsampled with much better precision. This happens in a ‘noiseball’ but critically outside of any realtime clocking mechanism ... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? Nova Physics Group Memory Player is the latest buzz and is attracting rave reviews. It's essentially a computer with a tube based dac ($15k). You also get it without dac ($10k). One reviewer comments on how it outperforms the highly regarded Zande... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? Seandtaylor99 - Steve has listed the main software components. Also ensure that for whatever sound output device you use, make sure you have the latest software drivers and use a dedicated computer with latest software (Windows XP SP 2). In foobar... | |
| Today's Transport War: Significant Differences? What is Jitter? is an interesting read and offers a good reason for why transports sound so different.I have setup a computer transport with great success. Its easy to get started but more effort/learning is needed to get best performance. After c... | |
| Tweaks for Computer Audio You're right as long as USB device is powered externally and not via computer motherboard, eg. your wifi USB suggestion. Your point on grounding is very important - I use a filter that legally cleans ground and prevents grunge from going back.I sp... | |
| The CD is Dead Long Live The CD? CDs are being used as storage transfer devices. Highend audio will follow this as well.You should try a computer setup as transport($1k). It simply excels as a transport feeding usb (e.g. bel canto dac 3) or with a output device, spdif, etc.Any mo... | |
| Audio Aero Prestige vs. Esoteric X-01 Limited I have the Prestige SE which was an upgrade from Prestige. They both require a long burn-in time to sound best (2000 hours) - I think its to do with the tubes. My dealer has the Esoteric P03/D03 combo which I auditioned. Esoteric build is stunning... | |
| SCART A/V output to DVI ? check out www.keene.co.uk they have a wide variety of scart to 'something' cables. also you could get a vga to dvi-d (analogue) adaptor. with this, you could connect a scart to vga cable. make sure your tv can accommodate different sync signals, e... | |
| Phillps SACD/CD transport gremlins hurting makers Hello Tom,I hadn't seen that thread before but was very interesting. Unfortunately, the alignment procedure (power off with a hybrid cd inside then power on) doesn't work for my unit - its stalls with 'Reading' in the display. | |
| When will a 60"+ true 1080P plasma be available? thats a definite yes on video processors going beyond scaling.i've tested this with panasonic and lg plasmas only and in both cases picture improves handsomely. pioneer and nec are very good plasmas and i suspect pioneer to have better video proce... | |
| When will a 60"+ true 1080P plasma be available? its amazing what difference an external processor will do for picture quality and this gets better with quality input (in your case 1080i). panasonic's latest internal video processor doesn't come close to what the DVDO is able to do. i would sugg... | |
| When will a 60"+ true 1080P plasma be available? i have a panasonic 50" (th-50phd8) which accepts 1080p. at 1366x768 resolution, its not true 1080p. if u r looking for picture quality (given your search for 1080p), i suggest using an external video processor/scaler (dvdo vp30 @ $2000) with a 60"... |