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| Marantz av7005 vs av8801 vs Theta Casablanca In my experience, the Theta stuff is designed to be very fast/clean. It is conventional op amp I/V after the dac with no Class A or waveform smoothing warmth. I suspect it is a bad match to your Emotiva amps, which are very fast/neutral. The Th... | |
| Interconnect Cables Heh, my cables are all hand built using two braids of 20awg OCC solid core copper with rhodium XLR connectors. The copper wire provides natural organic sound while the rhodium XLR gives the attack and high frequency detail and transparency. Goin... | |
| Please Recommend Transport + DAC for $5K total @melm - the pink faun i2s models that include a hdmi-to-rj45 “single-ended” cable for a specific dac are $515. The models without a cable are $330. I think the pink faun cables are supposed to be really nice, so $185 for a custom i2s digital cab... | |
| looking for the best cd transport only, without dac I would not recommend the oppo unless you needed a universal audio/video player, and I would also highly recommend upgrading the power supply to linear power supply from OPPOMOD (and/or doing clock upgrade) if you wanted to use this for CD or PCM ... | |
| Interconnect Cables In my experience, anything silver will reduce the amount of bass and also the amount of realism. Though, if you are trying to get more detail and attack, silver is the only way to do this when you have a laid back system. It’s too bad you can’t ... | |
| Any ideas on the Emotiva Xpa 1 Gen 2 vs other Mono or 2 channel amps? If you are looking into the Class D amps, I would only look at the PS Audio Stellar M700 monoblocks or the Nord One Up SE model with Sparkos op amp option. Both of these Class D amps have discrete Class A input stages, which really help give rich... | |
| Best sounding Hard Rock You might look into the band Highly Suspect. Don’t watch the YouTube videos because it will totally skew your perception if you see the band. Some of the music has classic tones. Look them up on hdtracks. | |
| Room Correction Nyquist Shannon theoremYeah, I read about that years ago. It doesn’t hold water as I can clearly hear differences between 44.1 sampling and 96khz sampling. You are also not realizing that not every DAC is created equal. The conversion from DAC ... | |
| Please Recommend Transport + DAC for $5K total @melm - interesting. It’s too bad you don’t have a desktop. Next year I plan to buy the DAC first, but I will probably get the following as well. I’m currently running digital coax out of a Xonar Essence PCI card.https://www.ebay.com/itm/Pink-F... | |
| Is dedicated PreAmp with Oppo 105 needed? @hitsofmisses - wow 2-1/2 years later! I think the only thing that will work for you is the Parasound P7 multi-channel preamp. The P7 does have XLR outputs. I would recommend using XLR if you can. It does provide better sound quality and also h... | |
| Room Correction Analogue is by no means superior (that is an audiophile myth).This statement is not correct at all all. Some people may not be able to hear it, but room correction systems will convert that analog to digital before doing DSP and corrections. Then ... | |
| Small issue with one channel of my Krell Evolution Two Pre-amp! Any Simple suggestions??? If you do the power down thing, make sure you unplug the Krell. Krell likes to have the power supply on all the time, even when on standby. | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio @itzhak1969 - word. | |
| CEC TL5 Belt Drive CD Transport With a belt driven device, the actual motor spins faster at a set speed. The RPM accuracy will be much higher than a direct drive transport. This is why the high end turntables all use high speed motors running belt drive - to reduce the wow and... | |
| Please Recommend Transport + DAC for $5K total I was just saying that the CXC doesn’t have BNC output. |