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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Rebooting the Lavry Gold DAC by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Lavry Gold DA924 ++ in Didital Things  25 Replies 
Peter, I got a feedback from Dan. You were right it looks like Dan do smudges to reboot the DAC occasionally despite that it does in run-time recalibration: "I would recommend turning the power off for a minute or more, at least every few month. That...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Lavry Gold DA-N5 Quintessence by Romy the Cat on 2014-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0 in Didital Things  32 Replies 
Yes, Lavry released a successor or his Lavry Gold 924 DAC. The Lavry Gold DA-N5 Quintessence is up to 4X sapling tat and has a number of other bells and whistles. Interesting to have it from Dan Lavry - from the person who was for year advocating mod...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The Lavry Gold DA924 ++ by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Lavry Gold DA924 ++ in Didital Things  25 Replies 
Wow, it is worth to live in Boston and have a day of miserable rain. I really like what I was getting with CD and I have a few very interesting results coming that should be even more exiting, at least one of them is more defiantly is very exciting ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: A new Lavry Gold? by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Lavry Gold DA924 ++ in Didital Things  25 Replies 
It is reported that Lavry Gold DA924 is no longer available and Dan Lavry reportedly is working on new generation of Gold DAC. In so, there are 4 very interesting question: 1)    Will Lavry make his new DAC to run at 4X? This is VERY tricky. For year...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: A littlie D-War: Bidat vs. Lavry Gold by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A littlie D-War: Bidat vs. Lavry Gold in Didital Things  14 Replies 
The regular readers of my audio blog probably have read the thread: “How to record FM broadcasts” at: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=1644 As you know I turned into to do it digitally and I do like it quite a lot. A couple months ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
As a new concert season is coming up with BSO opening night next week I was sprucing up my recording studio. The machine is 3MHz with 2G memory – plenty run SoundLab5. The SoundLab just record and play, I do absolutely nothing else in this software, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold without ego. by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
For whatever reason people expressed a lot of interest to Pacific vs. Lavry A/D and I recently got an relatively a large number of emails, including from the people I do not even know, asking me to compare identical analog tracjs and post the foundin...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold in D/A mode. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
In continuation to the "A new round of Pacific’s DAC listening" post.... I have a number of revisions of this little contest between two DACs in this thread and in other threads. In all of them the Lavry 924 has a little edge over Pacific Microso...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
As a new concert season is coming up with BSO opening night next week I was sprucing up my recording studio. The machine is 3MHz with 2G memory – plenty run SoundLab5. The SoundLab just record and play, I do absolutely nothing else in this software, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #44: One AD-DAW-DA vs. another AD-DAW-DA by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
[quote user="manisandher"] Have you tried this yet? If so, in percentage terms, how close do you think the digitized signal is to the original analog signal? (This is something that I'm hoping to try myself at some point, but I don't have a good ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Recording FM settings by peter foster on 2008-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Is anybody live in Australia with a tuner and an interest? in Off Air Audio  19 Replies 
I have been wanting to set up my components for recording of broadcasts for a while now so this would be good incentive to shift my backside into gear.My Sansui TU-X1 has been restored and improvements made.  I am very happy with the results at ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Lavry Gold DA-N5 Quintessence by Romy the Cat on 2014-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0 in Didital Things  32 Replies 
Yes, Lavry released a successor or his Lavry Gold 924 DAC. The Lavry Gold DA-N5 Quintessence is up to 4X sapling tat and has a number of other bells and whistles. Interesting to have it from Dan Lavry - from the person who was for year advocating mod...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: A new Lavry Gold? by Romy the Cat on 2010-09-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Lavry Gold DA924 ++ in Didital Things  25 Replies 
It is reported that Lavry Gold DA924 is no longer available and Dan Lavry reportedly is working on new generation of Gold DAC. In so, there are 4 very interesting question: 1)    Will Lavry make his new DAC to run at 4X? This is VERY tricky. For year...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold in D/A mode. by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
In continuation to the "A new round of Pacific’s DAC listening" post.... I have a number of revisions of this little contest between two DACs in this thread and in other threads. In all of them the Lavry 924 has a little edge over Pacific Microso...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #49: You are getting somewhere... by Romy the Cat on 2020-08-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
This is very interesting, Anthony. I do think that absolute polarity has own role to play. Also, do check the DC that might be sent out of your preamps, certainly with Placette and with your 10Y before the transformer. Chas it with disconnected Milq ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #46: The digital queuing? Might be... by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-31 
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[quote user="manisandher"]Related to posts on other threads, I recall noting that the Model Two's clock frequency is slightly off 44.1 KHz.With the Model Two in Master mode, the Weiss AFI1 reads the clock frequency as something like 44.08 KHz (I'm no...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: … and how to interpret the result? by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
[quote user="decoud"]Romy, have you ever considered trying with your three dacs the following experiment. You take a digital file and runit through each of the dacs. You then take the output and feed it back to your adc. You then take the resultant r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: The Bidat’s before and after. by Romy the Cat on 2010-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
[quote user="miab"] Do you think the Bidat will be back before the move for impressions on the mods? It might be hard to tell what/if the mods make a difference in a positive directions if you throw a whole new room into it. Your experimental control...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The ADCs: the initial impressions of listening... by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analogue to digital converter comparison in Didital Things  6 Replies 
The initials post was the body of email that Kostas sent to me and considering it’s format he presumed that I will me post it on my site. So, I did it (with his permission). I ran all those tracks once (some of them just a few seconds) and below is v...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The unintended consequences of binaural things in Hi-Fi. by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The unintended consequences of binaural things in Hi-Fi. in Playback Listening  1 Replies 
The last year there was some chatter up about artificially created so called “digital drugs”. If you are not familiar with it get familiar here for instance: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kimkomando/2008-08-07-digital-drugs_N.ht...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #52: More thoughts... by anthony on 2020-08-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Another a very valid thing to try is to see of the same difference with the same recordings happens with different DACs, preamps the you will take care of the absolute phase. [/quote]To date, my listening has been with my f...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: The Pacific AD and DA in "fight". by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
Quite sensational, truly. I can’t not at this point to say that it is better of worth: Lavry Gold AD and DA chain of the Pacific. The Pacific has own “softness” twist and some extra futures making it difficult to “compare” with Lavrys. Much higher in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Oppo BDP-95 by decoud on 2011-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Oppo DVD player as a transport. in Didital Things  10 Replies 
Oddly it might be the DAC section for which an Oppo player, though a later one, might be worth trying. If this...http://www.esstech.com/PDF/es9008%20dac%20comparison_SPDIF_96000_compA_compb.pdf...is to be believed then the sound of the thing ought to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #38: 2010 Bidat Modifications: Cat becomes a Guinea Pig by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Museatex Bidat pages. in Didital Things  57 Replies 
Spoke with John last night. It seems that the comments of the folks who did the modifications recently are not relevant and the new 2010 modification were not yet implemented on any DACs out there. The new modifications are mostly in PS and analo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: The digital anal-retentivism... by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Processor in Didital Things  29 Replies 
[quote user="peter foster"] The TU-X1 sounds to me as though there is a dolby processing happening even when the dolby feature is off. [/quote]You might check if your country decoding switch is not in a wrong setting. It located at the very top of th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The big digital time… by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
I spend a couple days playing with my digital, listening, measuring, trying to realize how to use it, trying to take advantage (if it exists) of my new Pacific processor. It is a true remarkable machine but the Pacific processor also highlighted to m...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The absurd truth about the recorders. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording/Playback software in Didital Things  13 Replies 
[quote user="el`Ol"]Meanwhile I did the Steinberg Waveleb test myself and the difference between it and the most common players is immense.[/quote] The pro editing software are lights miles ways in terms of sound quality from all any Foolbars that I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Who designed Lavry Quintessence DAC by Dmitry_youguanxi on 2014-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0 in Didital Things  32 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"][Lavry] now is 25 years older and shall be 25 years more cynical <...> When he made his Gold 924 he trumpeted his define al, over the world and there was a reason for it - it WAS great design.  Now with new DAC one wo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Lavry is just a DAC, it is not all Multibits by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DA architecture: True Multibit vs. anything else. in Didital Things  17 Replies 
Keith, it is not the thread about Lavry Gold DAC I would rather to hear from people who have experience with other Multibits, perhaps with many Multibits, and who would be able to generalize their observation about Multibits vs. anything else. I kn...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: ABC Classical Music broadcast by peter foster on 2008-09-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Is anybody live in Australia with a tuner and an interest? in Off Air Audio  19 Replies 
Dear Romy, it is possible.  I would need to obtain some cables to make the connection between my Sansui TU-X1 and Lavry Blue ADC.  Also, I do not have access yet to broadband so till then recordings could be to CDR and then I could post the...
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