Recent content by MLGrado

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    VPI Scout Jr.

    I know its very, very new, but curious if anyone has had a listen yet. Wondering how it compares to the Traveler, and also the likes of Clearaudio Concept...
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    Bryston Announces BDA-3 DAC with DSD 256

    Anyone know anything about the new AKM chips and how they handle DSD? To the best of my knowledge, current AKM chips digitally filter DSD and then 're-modulate' to whatever flavor of Delta Sigma AKM deems best. Pretty much par for the course these days with DSD DAC's, with some notable...
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    Nagra HD Dac

    "From him Nagra commissioned a custom ceramic board. The heart of its circuit is a Xilinx FPGA coded to operate as a true 1-bit DAC since commercial true 1-bit chips no longer exist." From the 6 moons review. This is misleading, in my opinion. While true 1 bit 'only' commercial DACS, like the...
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    iFi iDSD Micro DAC and Headphone Amp

    Hello everyone. Below is a copy and paste of my review from another site. iFi, a division of Abbingdon Music Research, has created a feature packed, great sounding bargain bombshell, the iDSD Micro. What kind of company do you get when one of the 'legends' of the DIY audio community decides...
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    Fun With Digital Resolutions: Reel To Reel Dub and Needle Drop

    Does the Korg MR-2 use the Burr Brown PCM4202 ADC? If so, that is a true 1 bit converter. So, when comparing these files, keep that in mind. Meaning the PCM files are essentially converted from DSD whether you do this internally in the Korg, or externally with software. Meaning, that the DSD...
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    Lampizator Amber?

    Hmmmm... but there is someone in North America with one, apparently.. I assume there must be some low noise 'audiophile friendly' stepup transformer that one could conceivably use.. hmmm I have a family friend in Germany... might have to have her order an Amber and let me know how it sounds...
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    Hiromi Alive--- will we be seeing a release on SACD?

    No my comments do not come from a direct comparison. I understand and agree that any one recording could sound better or worse for reasons other than delivery format. All I know is this. The master is 1 bit DSD. The 24/96 PCM is second generation. Conversion losses are inevitable. For...
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    Lampizator Amber?

    well then... I assume it will happen at some point. but scratch it off the list for now. Shucks.
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    Hiromi Alive--- will we be seeing a release on SACD?

    I wouldn't say amazing. It does sound good. But having heard the same musician in the same studio recorded by the same engineer on the same workstation, in native DSD, the loss in conversion is readily apparent. Not to get into a DSD/PCM debate, I always want to get the closest thing to the...
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    Lampizator Amber?

    oops! didn't see that there was already a thread Sorry! Already a thread on this one.. http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?15011-An-affordable-Lampizator-Amber-Lampi-DAC
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    miss my VR-4 jrs

    Yeah, I do. Briefly owned a pair back in 2006, purchased from the now defunct and slimy as hell Sound and Cinema in Knoxville TN... ( the owner, that is. His employees were good as gold, putting up with daily police and collection visits, and the more than occassional bounced payroll check)...
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    Hiromi Alive--- will we be seeing a release on SACD?

    Just downloaded from HDTracks the new Hiromi Alive album. l love Hiromi. And this one was engineered by Michael Bishop, who was responsible for Hiromi's excellent native DSD SACD's back when Telarc was making some of the best sounding DSD recordings you could get. Michael Bishop used...
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    Lampizator Amber?

    Any one have information on this new offering from Lampizator? I am VERY interested in the DSD only option. Am I right to assume that its DSD engine is the same design as the original, the differences being PCB rather than point to point, and less exotic tubes? If so, sounds like a...
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    Auralic Vega DAC

    I am curious if anyone who has heard 'true' DSD playback, that is, with no DSP, like Lampizator, certain Burr-Brown Dacs, etc... has heard DSD on the Vega, or on other higher end ESS Sabre based DACS. ESS uses DSP on the DSD stream for volume control, filtering.. etc. Am just curious if any...
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    Lampizator DSD DAC

    Download ASIO proxy, latest version from Soundforge from this link. ( I am not sure if you need to have foobar installed first, you may or may not.) http://sourceforge.net/projects/sacddecoder/files/foo_dsd_asio/ Install ASIO proxy on computer. In Jriver, under AUDIO DEVICES, you will have...
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