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| Good DVD changers to use as transports? The older high-end Sony's make excellent changers, particularly the DVP-S7700 and DVP-S7000, and they are real cheap used on Audiogon. With mods, they both are reference quality. | |
| Good cd player and a great DAC or great cd player? Unless you are planning on buying one of the more expensive universal players, such as the Denon and replacing all of your CD's with SACD or DVD-Audio disks, I would recommend buying a top of line used DVD player, such as a Sony DVP-S7700 and get ... | |
| Cable Suggestions Shielding has nothing to do with it. Shielding will just increase the capacitance, which is not a good thing. Your problem is sibilance from poor conductor metallurgy. It is often perceived as high-freqency harshness or brightness. You need single... | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC1 CDP owner's suggestions Modding the EMC 1-UP has a positive effect on all digital outputs. Unfortunately, unless the transformer is replaced, the outputs are all 75 ohms. The balanced outputs would be 75 ohms as well, which is a mismatch and will cause reflections. With ... | |
| Best SACD/CD player I can get for $5k new or used Eldartford has good advice. The transports in the newer players, such as the Denon 2900 and the Philips 963 are much better than the older ones. These have two lasers and with mods, can offer world-class performance. | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC1 CDP owner's suggestions The EMC-1 as a transport can be very good, but probably will never compete with the Sony transports. The real advantage is using it as a CDP. It has the best upsampling chipset inside. With mods, it is exceptional due to the discrete analog output... | |
| Electrocompaniet EMC1 CDP owner's suggestions The wiring inside of the EMC1-UP is not 75 ohms or even 110 ohms, so the connectors are not going to make much difference. In fact, the AES/EBU is wired directly to the 75 ohm outputs and there is an attempt to match to 75 ohms for all of them. | |
| Speaker cable -no shorter than 8FT? T or F Dekay - what technical basis is there for the Mapleshade limit? | |
| Speaker cable -no shorter than 8FT? T or F There is no technical reason for this. With all cables, shorter is better with perhaps one exception.With transports that have slow signal risetimes, in order to avoid reflections that can cause edge jitter, it is prudent to use S/SDIF cables that... | |
| Upgrade Path: CDP or Preamp I would recommend upgrading the CDP. One option might be to mod your Denon to make it a good transport and then purchase a modded DAC, such as the Perpetual P-3A or Musical Fidelity. You should be in the $1500 range to do this right. This combo wi... | |
| Transport Science and Philosophy: VRDS et al I second the importance of a low-jitter Transport. You can achieve this with most recent Sony, Philips and Pioneer transports if you get them modded. | |
| The best DAC for the money Get a modified Perpetual Tech. P-3A. Beats the others hands-down. Only thing comparable is the Meitner system. | |
| How does upsampling affect cd playback? The higher sampling rate allows the use of a less aggressive and higher-frequency analog filter. Less phase-shift results and thereby, the soundstageing is improved. | |
| To Pick a Cable,,,,,, I would be concerned about meeting electrical code. Unless you run a conduit all the way to your component and connect it to the component, this will probably not meet code. If you have a fire, your fire insurance will likely not cover it.I would ... | |
| Philips 1000 vs 963 for 2 channel. Which one ? Socrates - I agree. If you want great redbok playback, use the 9000 as a transport with a good upsampling DAC. If you don't care about SACD, just buy a used Sony 7700 and get it modded. |