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    Neutral power amp recommendations?

    I am completely biased, because I designed it, but you are perfectly describing the MSB s202. I think you should arrange a demo so you can hear it yourself.
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    Choosing a DAC with a good VC - Lampizator Pacific vs EMM Labs DV2 vs MSB Premier

    We suggest adjusting the gain not because it changes the sound of our DACs, it doesn't, its because the input circuits on many (most) preamps (and amps) have excessive distortion at higher input levels that can be significantly reduced by lowering the input voltage of the preamp... When I listen...
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    MSB Discrete upgrade - add Director or go to the Premier

    A XLR physical switcher box might satisfy your need. Especially since you need to manually manipulate your vinyl already.
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    Best XLR connectors money can buy?

    Industries, companies, technologies and manufacturing is always changing and what connector is “best” today could change tomorrow. Also, what connector is “best” in one use might not be “best” in another. I would like to give an explanation of connector attributes that anyone can use to evaluate...
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    Best XLR connectors money can buy?

    My vote for the XLRs with the best performance goes to modern Neutrik Gold plated connectors like NC3FXX-B. They have a unique spiral multi-finger female contact design that is super reliable and stable electrically even with repeated cable manipulation and the gold plating ensures the contacts...
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    Best XLR connectors money can buy?

    My audio Precision has silver plated XLRs on it and I need to clean the contacts about once a month or it significantly affects my measurements (causes measurement failures). If I'm being lazy I can just exercise the connectors a few times and it usually fixes the problem. I also have some...
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    Lenbrook Acquires MQA!

    Certain distortions at that level are plainly audible, others are completely inaudible, depends on the distortions. An example of a completely inaudible distortion at that level is added Gaussian Noise. An example of audible distortion is at that level is un-dithered truncation of the data.
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    Lenbrook Acquires MQA!

    MQA was never about "improving" audio, it was always about distributing audio. This is currently solved in much superior ways, so MQA no longer has a valid position to fill in the technology marketplace...
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    Lenbrook Acquires MQA!

    MQA did not need resurrection...
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    Whither MQA

    Mq"B-1" is not at all what people think it is, on either side of the debate, or even what "experts" or "insiders" think it is (or was or whatever!). It does have buried in it somewhere a clever, non patent-able, "observation", about digital audio that had the potential to increase the perceived...
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    Can digital get to vinyl sound and at what price?

    I once did a company wide survey of hearing with the goal to develop a volume control algorithm that took loundness and frequency into account. The participants sat in front of a calibrated speaker and matched the volumes of pilot tones to probe tone with a handheld contoller. Two of the...
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    DSD to PCM Conversion A/B Test Results

    Like I said it was 5 400Mhz SHARC DSPs. Its quite an old product over 10 years old at this point so these were state of the art at that time.
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    DSD to PCM Conversion A/B Test Results

    Yes the last ADC (MSB Studio ADC) I designed was Delta Sigma, but definitely not DSD by any stretch. It used 4 seventh order differential delta sigma modulators per channel @ 6 bits 6.144Mhz per modulator with correlated digitally generrated analog dither added to the ADC references to linearize...
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    The Digital Director - A new MSB product improving everything from the source to the output

    All computer based digital filtering I have evaluated, PGGB, HQ Player, Roon, and many more…, is highly colored and imprecise in all settings and configurations, If you ”must!” have the color and grain they add then by all means you can use them, otherwise stick to unfiltered and unprocessed...
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    The Digital Director - A new MSB product improving everything from the source to the output

    It’s not vague. “Pass through” means the digital director passes through the data unchanged. The DAC works normally with the benefit of the superior isolation of the Digital Director. “Filter” means the Digital Director offloads all the digital filtering the DAC would have done in its onboard...
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