stuartk
Responses from stuartk
| Please Recommend Transport + DAC for $5K total chadlesko; I guess I could give up the "made in N. America" demand and go with something like a Cyrus, Cambridge or Oppo for a transport, which would allow me to spend more on a DAC. They are all available to demo from online merchants. | |
| Can anyone please recommend warm sounding transport/DAC to replace tubed cdp ? aniwolfe; no worries. I do appreciate your input and I will keep that cable in mind should I decided to go with a different brand. | |
| Can anyone please recommend warm sounding transport/DAC to replace tubed cdp ? aniwolfe; here's the (I think) relevant quote:"For communication between separate transport and DAC, S/PDIF transmission via coaxial cable became the standard. The clear advantage of I²S is that the four signals of Master Clock, Bit Clock, Word Cl... | |
| Can anyone please recommend warm sounding transport/DAC to replace tubed cdp ? aniwolfe; I asked because my impression (based on 6Moons review) http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/psaudio7/perfectwave_3.htmlis that the best sound to be gotten from the PS Audio player is via the PSA I2S interface, which is accessed via HDMI, n... | |
| Can anyone please recommend warm sounding transport/DAC to replace tubed cdp ? aniwolfe; thanks for providing more information. The difference between a transport like the Cambridge and the PS Audio, as you surely must know, is that the PS Audio stores the digital data in memory first, and then plays it. I do not want to get... | |
| Can anyone please recommend warm sounding transport/DAC to replace tubed cdp ? rodge827: I have a modded Jolida JD100. aniwolfe: thanks for the cable recommendation. I'm afraid the upgrades you describe are, collectively, beyond my $2500 budget. | |
| New CDP vs. Separate Transport and DAC ??? I've decided to try out a used PS Audio Perfectwave Memory Player (which I can return) in conjunction with a friend's PS Audio NuWave DAC as a starting point. If I don't like the sound, then I will have to reconsider my desire to leave tubes behin... | |
| Can anyone please recommend warm sounding transport/DAC to replace tubed cdp ? Thanks for the suggestions-- quite a few are new to me. | |
| Can anyone please recommend warm sounding transport/DAC to replace tubed cdp ? nordicom: Danafrips is a name I've never come across. . . will investigate. | |
| New CDP vs. Separate Transport and DAC ??? CORRECTION TO ORIGINAL POST: I meant to type "DAC technology is rapidly CHANGING". | |
| New CDP vs. Separate Transport and DAC ??? swampwalker: Thanks for your response. The mod was done by Mitch Singerman, at Affordable Audio in Venice, CA. I'd have to ask him, I guess. The issue of the contribution the tubed cdp currently makes to the system-- and how to compensate if that ... | |
| Pros & Cons of Buying an Integrated with Built-in DAC? mesch;I'd e-mail Jeff Wells and ask him. | |
| Which integrated amp would you pick? Halo is overrated, IMHO. And yes; I've read all the reviews, but in my system,in my room, I was very much underwhelmed. I've just finished a search for a new SS integrated and ended up with Wells Audio Majestic. At $3600, it may exceed your budge... | |
| Pros & Cons of Buying an Integrated with Built-in DAC? mesch;It's sure made me appreciate my Silverline monitors !I enjoyed my Jolida integrated; it was great for Jazz and other types of acoustic music, but the downside was that I ended uplargely limiting my listening choices to those genres. The Well... | |
| Pros & Cons of Buying an Integrated with Built-in DAC? I have ended up with a Wells Majestic integrated. I don't miss tubes at all with this amp-- it sounds incredibly musical to me-- very engaging in a non-fatiguing way yet more dynamic and dimensional than my tubed Jolida. Yes; in the end, I had to ... |