doggiehowser
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| cd player 4 of my friends who had the XDS1 upgraded to the new 2 box TSDX/DAC2X combo. It is supposed to be a big upgrade separating the power supply between the DAC and transport. | |
| Playback Designs Hi DctomI didn't have a chance to do an A:B immediately before and after the upgrade but I thought there was an improvement in separation/layers and depth on the same CD I was playing a day before the upgrade. I emailed Jon and am copying the repl... | |
| Pure Music...Really Bad so far... A+ has an odd bug where it cues up the wrong song that doesn't tally with what iTunes was going to play in integration mode. It was still appearing in 1.4.1 but haven't tested 1.4.2 yet | |
| Rip CD to Mac - basic question I think the word you are looking for is lossless compression.I do find a slight difference between AIFF and WAV but both IMHO are better than FLAC/ALAC. ps AIFF has the option of having big or little endian so it can be in the same order as WAV. B... | |
| Pure Music...Really Bad so far... Not sure what the rest of the system is but PM apparently has problems with iTunes 11. Not sure if you are using the latest beta | |
| SACD-R But that's cos the SACD is being converted to 88.2kHz PCM using the CDSA | |
| SACD-R If you don't intend to burn the SACD-R and only intend to play the 2 channel layer, all you need is a DAC that can process DSD over USB, a Mac Mini with Audirvana Plus 1.4 and voila. Playback of the ISO on your computer.You can also do the same on... | |
| Playback Designs There's a new firmware out for the 5 series. Anyone know what's changed? | |
| Is there any real alternative to Oppo?? Douglas, the CA 751 is using the same base as the Oppo 93 but swaps out the ESS/Cirrus DAC for their own Wolfson DAC stage. | |
| What are the differences between XRCDs? SHM uses the original master, only the material used is different/better.So my Eagles Hell Freezes Over US press < SHM versionK2/XRCD involve remastering so IMHO the remastering accounts for why K2/XRCDs sounds better than the standard master (... | |
| playback mps-5 v dcs puccini I think as long as the machine is dedicated and you can disable background processes | |
| Is there any real alternative to Oppo?? Other Oppo based players from Electrocompaniet, Cambridge Audio? | |
| What are the differences between XRCDs? There are XRCD and SHM XRCD variants pressed in Japan but usually for the Asian market. Some of them are very good. My SHM XRCD2 of Hell Freezes Over is the best one yet | |
| Best DVD Audio Player Today--New or Used Actually I have not encountered a DVDA that's copy protected and those will output full HR over SPDF. | |
| Playback Designs I find the difference between the Playback/EMM DSD DACs vs the PCM1704 to be in the capability to resolve complex arrangements. I find that with many instruments/voices/percussions etc, the DSD DACs tend to show the delineation well. |