tcatman
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| High end vintage vs contemporary DAC's - are sonic improvements real? Ok. Point taken... How much should you spend then on a USB interface for one of these classic Dac's. The game seems to be to find an electrically well isolated interface that uses a "good" asynchronous protocol to stream from a USB output. | |
| High end vintage vs contemporary DAC's - are sonic improvements real? My Sonic Frontiers Mk2 was/is making scratching noises...so I started using the Dacs in my lecicon mc 1The SF uses a 1996 vintage 20 bit 8x oversampling UltraAnalog D20400A (1 Dual) ... while the Lexicon MC 1 uses a 2000 vintage 24 bit 96K Delta S... | |
| HT cross over question AVDoes it make any difference if I switch the low level line inputs..... eg HT Amp LFE output with the Preamp out .... going into a switch and the selected output going to the sub LR line level iputs. Or...is there some advantage to using the spea... | |
| HT cross over question AVOne final question.... I have two crossovers in play now... the AV processor is set at 80 HZ... The sub cross over is set for 80 Hz using the speaker level inputs for music as DB recommended and I concur.. ... (No high pass cross over used) Is t... | |
| HT cross over question HA... talk about my blind spots.... Thanks for pointing this one out... Once upon a time... I read that using the speaker level inputs to a sub was the worst possible way to feed them. I thought of the speaker level terminals as a relic from the d... | |
| HT cross over question Db I hear good results setting the sub up as you suggest playing music... very pleased with dropping the kube 2000 out..Avgoround... The problem is the flexibility in connecting the sub . I prioritize two channel music. so the amp takes balanced o... | |
| Kef Kube equalizer DBPHDI have a question about your theater setup with your Kef 104/2s with a pair of subs. It sounds like you take the L and R signal from your pre/pro to the subs and output the signal after the 80 Hz crossover on the subs to the Kefs...My questio... | |
| J River Media Center 19 That is worth a try... The fundamental problem is that I simply don't understand home networks and what gets through a firewall or not enough to bend the rules a bit.. The second issue... is that I do this job very infrequently and the details get... | |
| Has the Oppo carried the AV industry? For those that envision putting all of their blu rays on a server at full (or any) resolution... note that the US just shut down the company DVDFAB for selling software that violates US copywrite... Their competitor has not been shut down .... yet... | |
| J River Media Center 19 I do the same thing for propagating one library to two PC's in different locations.... (after cloning the data drives using something like filesync). If you use the media server feature in one location... the unique network identifier gets copied ... | |
| J River Media Center 19 I do the same thing for propagating one library to two PC's in different locations.... after cloning the data drives using something like filesync. If you use the media server feature in one location... the unique network identifier gets copied an... | |
| Which OPPO? That is an interesting question! What blu ray player does the best job of down mixing the multichannel track into two channel stereo... while keeping the voice image proper!You probably also want a blue ray player that will give you top notch stre... | |
| Downloaded 3000 CD's To External Hard Drive I would pay for a database tagging service for the month that you plan to rip disks. dbpoweramp had a service with allmusic that pulled the metadata down into the flac tags. You can also use dppoweramps accurate rip which checksum compares your ri... | |
| Best way to improve my Theater with $1500.00 So I bought an all BOSE system! Acoustimass 33 from the BOSE outlet store! It is gonna be so awesome!!Apparently... you are fully into he spirit of the day!(I would have thought BOSE would have gone away 30 years ago! I of course failed to recogni... | |
| Best way to improve my Theater with $1500.00 AVgoround wroteI would stay away from more delicate, open, single mid-woof/tweeter traditional stereo speakers for all out dedicated movie speakers. You'll find they're the opposite of what a good dynamic, hard hitting movie theater loudspeaker - ... |