audioengr
Responses from audioengr
| How to connect Digital PC to Hifi? http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.main&ID=ce4f3b6d13494004f69f07cb11070055 | |
| Comparing Bel Canto DAC2 and Birdland Odeon AG Have not heard the Odeon AG, but the Odeon Lite and the Bel Canto DAC2. I like the Birdland better in stock form. It helps if you bypass the volume control in the Birdland. The analog section of the Birdland is encapsulated so it cannot be modded ... | |
| How good is the Philips 963SA as CD transport? Sean - you were right. After doing a lot of power and digital mods I installed a Jensen cap and ran it for 2 days solid. The 963 really opened-up. Great as a transport now. Not compressed at all. To get that last bit of focus, it needs a more stab... | |
| Why is Sony Digital sound more like vinyl? Sean - FYI, I have not found a reclocker yet that does not benefit from a low-jitter high edge-rate Transport.Steve N.Empirical AudioManufacturer | |
| Why is Sony Digital sound more like vinyl? Sean wrote:"Quite honestly, i was amazed at how much the sonics of a transport impart into a system."You are preaching to the choir. Transports can make a HUGE difference. BTW - have you read my white paper on Digital cable length:http://www.posit... | |
| Why is Sony Digital sound more like vinyl? Sorlowski - The 9000 is a bit of a problem, you are correct. I am told you can program a "soft" mode, which is digital signal processing that can ameliorate some of this, but evidently you sacrifice detail in the process. I have modded the digital... | |
| Why is Sony Digital sound more like vinyl? I agreed, piano is hard-sounding. What your tube DAC has done is limit the HF dynamics. You are getting the sustain and decay, but not the attack. This will make a Steinway sound like a Baldwin. I have experienced this "pretty" sound myself, since... | |
| Why is Sony Digital sound more like vinyl? Sean - I have a disk in teh 963SA on repeat-play for 2 days now. Have not tried it again yet. I installed a Jensen cap, so that might affect this. I am talking about the Transport performance, not the analog outs. | |
| Need some pre-amp advice... BTW - the ML #38 has processor balanced bypass. I use it in a combo HT/2-channel system myself. | |
| Why is Sony Digital sound more like vinyl? If the XA777es sounds anything like the CX777es (carousel) then it needs a lot of help in stock form. The CX777es mods out really nice - almost reference quality. The analog outs on the CX are AC-coupled, but I eliminate this - makes a huge improv... | |
| Need some pre-amp advice... Preamps are hard, probably the most difficult component to get right. SS are either dark-sounding or sibilant. Tubes can be very good, but can also be lacking in dynamics or LF extension/tightness.My own reference is an old Mark Levinson #38 with ... | |
| Why is Sony Digital sound more like vinyl? My reference transport is the Sony DVP-S7700. It does not have particularly low jitter, even after digital and power mods, but I believe it must be the digital signal processing that Sony does in their custom chips. It just sounds more natural and... | |
| Douglas Self on Negative feedback and distortion Eldartford wrote:"Frequency response is not the same thing as step function response, but it is correlated. And a lot easier to measure. If an amp is 0.5 dB down at 100 Kc it probably has good step response."You cannot make this inference. Step re... | |
| Recommended Transports for an Audio Aero DAC The Sony DVP-S7700 (with mods) is really a magical Transport. I have compared it to dozens of other CDP's and transports. It is just better, more natural and live sounding. I believe the digital signal processing and dual-laser is the reason. It's... | |
| What am I hearing??? Stehno wrote:"In essence, a poorly designed cable will produce or generate the exact same (moment in time) musical signal muliple times before the signal completes it's travels to the other end of the cable."Not quite. Smearing in cables has to do... |