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    The SA-3.1-An overlooked gem

    Hello Kcin If you read my previous post I did something similar... well, a technician did the psu for me. do you think the cathode follower in the 5.1 really ads something? My impression is that the SS B+ makes more difference. What do you think about it? From your pics I saw you installed...
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    The SA-3.1-An overlooked gem

    Sorry, no I'm not wrong. I think I am right 100%. Please read again what I wrote: I haven't said that it doesn't work with an input impedance below 100KOhm, I said you that with >=100K it "really sings". I experimented with input impedance as low as 30K and it works, it even sounds good. But...
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    The SA-3.1-An overlooked gem

    Oh! This is an old post but I want to contribute somehow. Because I think I have a good contribution for this. I have been an happy owner of Counterpoints 3.1 and 5.1 preamps. I bought a used a dirty cheap Counterpoint 3.1 in 2005 just for curiosity because a "venerable" local audiophile that...
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    6SN7 and SRPP line stage

    Dear Friends, I have an audio research SP9 preamp, which did a great job for a decade now. After I visited a collegue audiophile making a 1-to-1 comparison with its preamp I discovered that the SP9 lacks something I like. He has a 6SN7 line stage done by a French guy who recently passed...
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    Flac

    I think that the most important reason why to support FLAC is decoding speed. This is especially important for hirez files... think about 24bit/192Khz. Pico
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    Flac

    I think 0 is still compression. Try yourself. The compression level 0 allows the fastes deconding time. Best Pico
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    Music File Naming

    I am a Linux guy but I agree that JRiver is the best out there... unfortunately I can't cope with MS Wins any more. You are right about tags, but ripping and organising something like 2500 cds is really a big job, so I focus on flexibility and maintenance. If some standard changes I want to be...
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    Music File Naming

    Hello Dears organizing an efficient music directory is not an easy task... at least I now see that there are a number of choices to be done. I saw many website talking about how to tag, but I ask myself whether there is a standard way of naming files. For instance I HDtracks does 1-song...
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    Audio Soundcards

    Hello Bruce, I have a modest, but well done card, the ESI Juli@ which I use for spdif output over a good toslink connector. The only think which is not clear to me is how internal noise (psu, noise and mechanical noise) can affects the digital output. Peoples keep saying that USB is superior...
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