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Hey Alex,Aside from the obvious swapping of cables, do you have any extra outputs in your preamp? Don't try any sort of splitting device...I did it once with very cheap cables and couldn't listen for more than 30 seconds. You could always...
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So I thought my tuner weren't properly adjusted. It has not been serviced nor recently aligned, I have no proficient technicians around who I depend to let them put their hands into the tuner. The damn thing always picked up Bidat's and CEC...
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[quote user="coops"] … spent a week listening to the AMR, cd77 really wanted to like it, built solidly, but sound wise it is lackluster [/quote]I never hear word “Lackluster” and I looked it up in dictionary. Can you tell more about it? You are...
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That's a whole lotta Bidat you've got there, Romy. By contrast, I'm guessing the 1-box iDAT-44+ (not including its wall wart) is smaller than the box pictured above with the torroidal tranny in it. The torroidal tranny inside my...
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Audio people frequently go astray in their thinking and actions and this creates a good breeding ground for all possible audio sale opportunists. I would like to explore one moment that has not a lot of public attention and to look at the moment slig...
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Interesting that the Pacific unit uses somewhat different words and presumably somewhat different means to achieve such similar ends. This does seem to suggest that the in-common "smart algorithm" is a contributor here.This "of a piece" quality...
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I do not know, Paul. I had iDAT 44 and iDAT-M and both of them did not impress me. I think they are all different units. They all use the same iDAT adoptive algorithm (?) but how it is implemented and what are in the rest of those units I do not know...
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Thank you. This is something that I can look into locally, so that's great. Romy, does your Bidat have the upgrades that John Wright speaks of above, or is it virgin, so to speak? If the latter, do you find such claims - with upgrades, "the best DAC ...
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Yesterday arrived the Belkin Synapse cable. I have been listening this afternoon some music, and I'm surprised how this 6ft piece of wire has been able to remove the high frequency crap. Clean, coherent, no false detail anymore... I believe it affect...
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[quote user="Paul S"] … When I listen before I switch to battery, then listen after I switch, the unit starts sounding better and better over about 5 minutes, then it improves very slowly like it does on wall polwer, depending on how long I've warmed...
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i checked out this product from your link(thanks).for digital inputs they show aes,spdif,toslink and bada,which i understand is for use with the rr hrx 24/176?.also there is no clear indication that the attenuation is achieved in the digital domain.t...
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I need to say that with all huge advantages I have in my room with my midbass horns there is something that lost. I lost a great impulse response that I use to have on my old room with my direct radiating bass array covering up to 70Hz. I did not...
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Romy,I don't recall seeing a bypass switch per se, and don't know if the other control functions ofter something equivalent. I haven't really experimented with the 3000+ much, as my system is in a state of influx, with addition of items (entire cabl...
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A site visitor took the Lapmpizator idea on and did what the Lapmpizator proposed. He found that sonically Lapmpizied CEC was “bit annoying and thin sounding” and the default configuration “produced sounds that are better defined in space. Mea...
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This weekend I decide to take my FM where it should be. I ran ~125” and installed a dipole on the roof of my building and serviced my tuner. The result was as expected but there was something unexpected. Along with all normal benefits of better anten...
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The main trouble I've had with digital is that I've always compared it to analog, both master tapes and LP playback, and I've always tried to get the whole mess to remind me somehow of live acoustic music; at least I've aimed to get the "same things"...
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You and I must be of the very few that find CD-R copied discs sounding worse than an original CD, most people find no differences or better sound in copied discs.I have a Marantz Pro recorder (631 I believe) and as a transport is pure crap, not even ...
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I'm sorry to read that. It could be possible that it's a transparent HP amp if using high impedance phones like HD600, but then it'd be of no use to me, since the phones I'm liking more lately, which I'd like to know how far can go with some fine-tun...
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Roman
I have a problem with navigation on your site so I probably missed the post explaining why preamp should bare the response for absolute transparency ?You reserve the right for the amp to inject an X factor and the sources can do what they wi...
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Thanks, Jim, and thanks to everyone who replied in direct emails. Summarizing what was advised to me it looks like as now the input impedance of the amp is around 4.5K. That was roughly what I would like to have, though I would like to go even furthe...
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That is a very interesting observation: the rate with notes change in sound it looks like affect my preferences to use or not to use multibit converter. With music where rate is small I prefer multibit. The small rate does not mean the slow mus...
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Hi, Tomand
Anything BiDAT would likely be known by, also the express purview of, John Wright, in Canada. He is friendly and accommodating, but this is his livelihood, after all. Why do you need the schematic so badly?Best regards,Pau...
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Mani, a month or so ago you posted a question at this site asking how possible to use Pacific as the ONLY DAC in playback. Sine at that time you deal with Pacific was pending we decided to remove the post in order do not create unnecessary agitations...
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I haven't listened to the TU-X1, but I can swear that my TU-919 is a better source than my Bidat or my vinyl rig in terms of creating an atmosphere of music. Here we only have two decent stations, one for classical which from time to time broadc...
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good point in here;graphic cards perform so well because they are optimized to perform limited tasks and are cheap.I have been listening
,researching and experimenting to get musically interesting and satisfyting results from cd for 25+ years now.I...
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[quote user="TonyB"]How about expanding the D-War and comparing the CEC transport and a PC feeding the Bidat? It should not be that difficult to rip a few CD's onto a PC. I would LOVE to hear the comparison. Using a PC would have a few advantages if ...
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This site never meant to be a popular and was more meant to be as my personal diary but since the site become quite popular (today was a third day in a row as the over 300 discreet visitors visited the site per day) then I would like to maintain it a...
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Thanks, Peter
This is an interesting and in a way controversial subject, let us to view it in details.
[quote user="peter foster"] It may be worthwhile to check what transformer is installed in your DA924 because Lavry did change over to torroid tr...
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I was tipped off to a dac over at the proaudio forum Gearslutz. It is usually difficult to gauge those users references as most are responsible for many of the bad habits in audio record engineering. One user who I seem to agree philosophically with ...
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I'm still in a burn-in phase. I'm having little time these days for some serious listening with loudspeakers, and the unit must have about 30 hours playing time. I have the DA-11 hooked to a headphone amplifier and I'm using different cans. As a tran...
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