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Please tell me ur eqip in detail. Ta.
Please tell me ur eqip in detail. Ta.
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They were a Japanese company from the '70s and '80s that was started by the man who now makes the Ikeda cartridges.
Putting aside our disagreement on this, my argument had more to do with telling the provenance of an analog signal. There is nothing inherent in the digitally-sourced analog signal that gives away its origin as a digital signal. For example, to remove any consideration of resolution, if I output a sine wave from a digital source, and it's done correctly (no obvious looping artifacts, good reconstruction filters, dithered properly, etc.), you can't tell that it was digitally generated.
I don't disagree with that although I know people who can readily tell digital sources vs. analog sources on a quality stereo system even with very quiet LPs.
You people must be like dogs with high frequency-- hearing things the rest of humanity cannot!
Most people (men, especially) can't hear ****! That's why the numbers are so very, very important.
I'll buy that -- sort of like: Whose car is fastest? Whose cellphone is smallest? Who can pee higher on that tree? And so on ...
I'll buy that -- sort of like:
2. In terms of where to spend the money, the speaker is most important. That seems to be the typical limiting factor.
How does the Oppo perform with standard red book CDs? My Naim CDX has broken and I´m looking for a cost-effective universal player that will handle both CD and Blu-Ray.
Decent but a better choice there if you like SACD is the Sony 5400 ES at $1,500 which is amazing all around. You would just give up DVD-Audio.
The Sony SACD players are excellent. Giving up on DVD-A? Not necessarily a bad thing!
While we're on the subject of analog rebound, the ultimate analog playback is 15 IPS half track RTR . There's a company called The Tape Project releasing 1.5 generation original analog master tape dubs recorded in real time. They also due mods on great old prosumer machines like the Technics RS1500, as well as build tube tape head preamps.