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    The Early Wadia Products

    Yesterday, I experimented by playing various CDs using my Wadia 8 transport -- first using my Wadia 2000 DDC (DAC) into my Theta Casablanca V preamp/processor and then using the DAC boards (fully balanced circuit topology, Burr Brown PCM-1792 DACs with two per channel, and fully discrete...
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    List your Theta gear and system, room, etc.

    I have the Theta Compli, but I only use it to play two-channel SACDs.
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    List your Theta gear and system, room, etc.

    I have the Theta Compli, but I only use it to play two-channel SACDs.
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    List your Theta gear and system, room, etc.

    I have a Casablanca V, which I love except for its inadequacy in switching video. For that, I have had to acquire a 4x2 AVPro 4k Matrix Switch. I have lots of equipment, so I'll just list what is of primary importance to my home theater setup (besides the CBV): three McIntosh MC 611 mono...
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    The Early Wadia Products

    When Wadia first came out, I invested in a Wadia 8 transport and a Wadia Digital Decoding Computer 2000 (which has been updated to the final version of its operating software). While I still use the Wadia 8 as my primary transport for CDs, these days I primarily use my Theta Casablanca V for...
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    S3 MK3 (2023) Arrived

    I expect the variations in the frequency response are due to the room environment. I would love to see a measurements report by John Atkinson of Stereophile.
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    S3 MK3 (2023) Arrived

    Great idea. Thank you. I hadn't thought of also running pink noise to see the entire frequency response at the same time. (Hopefully, the dealer didn't tear down the setup he had prepared for me.)
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    S3 MK3 (2023) Arrived

    Yesterday afternoon, I spent two hours at my local Magico dealer listening to Magico 2023 S3 loudspeakers. The supportive equipment included a Luxman C-10X preamplifier, two Luxman M-10X power amplifiers (each in mono mode), a Luxman D-10X digital player and an Aurender N20 streamer/DAC...
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    S3 MK3 (2023) Arrived

    Tomorrow afternoon, I'll have the opportunity to listen to the new S3. Hopefully, I'll have the chance to listen to the A5 as well, although my local dealer has not assured me that will be possible due to the weight of each speaker -- which is a shame, as I am trying to decide between them...
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    Theory That Musical Genre Preference Drives Loudspeaker Preference

    Steinway is not alone offering such a product. I use a QRS Pianomotion system with my Estonia grand piano. My source software are MIDI files. For solo piano works, I sincerely doubt even a $1 million audio system can reproduce, say, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata as well as my Estonia/QRS piano...
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    What are the best speakers you've ever heard ?

    I wish that question could easily be answered. The problem is that the speakers interact with the pre/main amplifier(s), the source components, the room environment, the cabling and power, and the quality of the original recordings. If I play on my system an album from the 1960s which has been...
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    Amplification conundrum - Rockport Atria II

    I have just purchased McIntosh MC 611s (which, I believe, are somewhat similar sonically) and am considering the Atria IIs. I am curious, if you recall, how the MC 462 sounded with them.
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    Audio Problem with my OPPO UDP-203

    Over the past few months, I have noticed a growing audio problem with my OPPO-203: when playing a Blu-ray disc, the video displays perfectly, but there isn't any audio. (I use the dedicated HDMI audio-only output.) What I had been doing as a consequence was to turn both the OPPO-203 and my...

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