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| SACD player with HDMI output I suspect this issue only arises when you feed the SSP a DSD signal. If you let your SACD / univeral player do DSD to LPCM conversions, you should not have a problem and have access to all the bass management and EQ features in the processor. The ... | |
| Redbook vs. SACD vs. Linear PCM 24 bit 192 kHz Lots of variables. Publishing formats, recording formats, mastering process, hardware, signal path. You can safely forget about a definitive conclusion about what format is inherently superior based on this shootout. FWIW, I played the SACD and LP... | |
| DACs With Killer Built-In Preamps Grannyring, I went the other direction. I never found a preamp below $10K (never tried one over $10K) that bested a well implemented VC in the DAC and hence always ended up selling the preamp. Then a trade in Ref5SE showed up and I gave the preamp... | |
| Standalone Room Correction Component If you need 7.1 channels you could get a modded Oppo with Vanity93 digi out board. You could run this straight digitally into a Trinnov MC8. The Trinnov will expand 5.1 to 7.1 using 3D remapping. You will have less flexibility than with an HDMI ba... | |
| DACs and audio formats I thought you wanted the a CS/SACD tranport to output DSD over USB when playing a SACD. Aint gonna happen. If instead you are interested in a DSD dac with USB input and CD/SACD transport, the Oppo 105 might be your ticket. This will give you a USB... | |
| DACs and audio formats To my knowledge, the player you're describing does not exist. There are no CD / SACD transports that output DSD over USB - not sure this would even be legal, because you cannot output DSD digitally without copyright protection protocal, which USB ... | |
| Good dac to reproduce soprano vocals? Hfl, while not necessarily opera, I'm pretty sure female vocals in the high register are part of the vast majority of DAC evaluations. I personally always play some Rachell Ferrell (Jazz), who has a six octave range.For what it is worth, the top o... | |
| Good dac to reproduce soprano vocals? Hfl, why not simply rotate a few of the contenders in your pricerange through your system and hear for yourself. This would certainly include Steve's overdrive DAC, but MSB offers in house trial on their new analog DAC, and I'm sure there are othe... | |
| Top CD transports vs USB converter shootout One thought though. In the computeraudiophile writeup, the offramp 5 scores a 95 without powersupply, and the EVO stack with powersupply is 10 points higher than without. One could mkae the inference that the OR5 with powersupply (monolith or othe... | |
| Anyone Listening to DSD files? It is a moot point. DSD content only exists in the audiophile fringes. Why every manufacturer seems to rush into DSD enabling their hardware baffles me. May be they figure the content will follow the hardware. If history is any guidance, it won't ... | |
| Which is better: Transport+DAC or PC system+DAC FWIW, Elberoth has done a shootout between S/PDIF converters using a dCS DAC and using the dCS transport as his reference (index score 100). He found all converters to underperform the transport, until the arrival of the berkely audio design (BADA... | |
| Blu Ray and external DAC's As far as I'm aware all BR players can be set to downmix the MCH (incl. dolby digital) tracks to stereo. I would be very surprised if the Pioneer won't. Check the manual. | |
| Breakout DAC for 2013? I agree with Elzabeth that DACs are a highly flavor of the month and giant killer hype prone category of electonics. In my limited experience there are not game changing breakthrough technologies, but by and large you get what you pay for (with cl... | |
| DACs With Killer Built-In Preamps Also look into the Aesthetic pandora. It has a preamp / VC option based on technology from their acclaimed calypso tube preamp. It is supposed to be a phenomenal DAC to boot. It is right at your pricepoint. | |
| DAC with Volume Control and Audio Research Ref 5SE Denon, no doubt the preamp route is an expensive proposition, and the internal VC will always be more cost effective. However, the MSB VC is not bad at all, and one hifi mag put is at par with using the old ref 5 (also 13K) for volume control. How... |