guidocorona
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| Esoteric DV-50: Any cdp's Significantly better? Just wanted to point everyone to a new thread just started, comparing X-01 with Emm, Teac P01, as well as the newest top of the line Sony and Denon players. Please see:http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?ddgtl&1104558827&openmine&z... | |
| Esoteric DV-50: Any cdp's Significantly better? TBG, you are an eternal optimist! With stock units a comparison is likely to last six months, but with the speed that moders evolve their creations, the technological Darwinism in these devices have made comparisons valid for 6 to 8 weeks at most.... | |
| Pass X350.5 vs Rowland 302 Muralman, you may very well be right about 302's power supply. I need to call Rowland in January and will ask them about it. I'd be in fact very interested in finding out about the performance difference between H2O Signature monoblocks and Jeff R... | |
| Pass X350.5 vs Rowland 302 According to the respective web sites, the Pass Labs X350.5 has a max output current of 20 Amps, the Rowland 302 has a max output current than 45 Amps. In theory at least this should mean that it can drive better difficult loads. For what it matte... | |
| Pass X350.5 vs Rowland 302 Muralman, the Rowland 201 and 501 use digital power supplies. The 302 uses a custom analog switching power supply as far as I know. That is why it weighs over 90 lbs instead of less than 20. | |
| Esoteric DV-50: Any cdp's Significantly better? DBLD, that may be an inherent problem with lower end transport. That is one of the reasons why I am so attracted by machines that use the VRDS transport mechanism. I am excited to see what Alex comes up modifying the UX-3, and hope the other modif... | |
| Esoteric DV-50: Any cdp's Significantly better? Thank you Metralla, your new info is very welcome. It adds a whole new twist to the field of moded units. | |
| Esoteric DV-50: Any cdp's Significantly better? SPRINGBOCK10: the EMM DAC/pre was optimized to work with the EMM transport. Unless you wait for the transport, you will never know whether the pair will work and do magic for you. | |
| Esoteric DV-50: Any cdp's Significantly better? Springbock10, yours is the $64B question. Moded units are not balanced, except for one APL3910 version which has XLR active outputs. Not a classic balanced design with duplicate circuitry, though: the 'balance' signal is created through phase spli... | |
| DV-50s vs Krell SACD Standard vs Denon 3910 mod Likewise! | |
| DV-50s vs Krell SACD Standard vs Denon 3910 mod TBG, We are all on the same quest. Your individualistic approach and Steve Milin's collegial one are clearly different, but equally valid in themselves, and valuable to many of us. As you appear to be a resident of the Lone Star State, I am not su... | |
| Esoteric DV-50: Any cdp's Significantly better? Aldavis, I suspect you may be correct about X-01. By the way, may I ask you to put one space-char after each period? I am using a speech synthesizer to read the text and the poor creature cannot use your periods for prosodic control unless you do ... | |
| DV-50s vs Krell SACD Standard vs Denon 3910 mod Dennis, you bring up a very good point. Once you reach certain rather exalted levels, personal preference also plays a significant role. From my personal discussions with AVGURU and JAYCTOY it would appear that they perceive the sound of the ModWr... | |
| Esoteric DV-50: Any cdp's Significantly better? Fab review AVGURU! Just from memory, do you have a feel on how UX-1 is different from X-01? If you consider the moded DV50 keep in mind that at least at this time Alex is disabling the XLR balanced outputs. He is using 2-channel RCA outs only. Mul... | |
| DV-50s vs Krell SACD Standard vs Denon 3910 mod Oops, TBG, I goofed again, you wrote Exemplar and I read APL. Sorry for that, My question stands though modified: how did you choose Exemplar over APL and ModWright? |