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[quote user="Paul S"] What are you using for pre-amp chores?
Have you tried phono sources yet?[/quote]
I do not use analog for now, since my preamp is being rebuilt, I hope I will have it back this week. Well, I was listening today the life MET’s b...
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Thank you very much for your responses guys. I'll see if I can get a S&B to try with the EAR and listen how the music benefits or not from it. Romy: I understand things in the same way you do, I mean that I mainly listen to the music, you may rem...
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Thanks, Peter
This is an interesting and in a way controversial subject, let us to view it in details.
[quote user="peter foster"] It may be worthwhile to check what transformer is installed in your DA924 because Lavry did change over to torroid tr...
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Do you REALLY need one?
Why SHOULD you need one?
A buffer is "simply" a device for converting impedance from high to low to drive cables but every such device loses information in the process.
With a 47R ouput impedance surely your Bidat has ...
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I do not know. People say a lot of words about jitter and speculate a lot about the topic. I never heard from anyone any real definition how a high level of jitter sounds in realty. I heard 4 (!!!!) complete contradictory descriptions how high level ...
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I brought today my Lavry’s AD122 MKII processor and decided to conduct excrement feeding the ADC with “live” feed from FM broadcast and outputting it directly into my Bidat DAC: WHRB 95.3 FM 8:00 pm San Francisco Symphony orchestra “IN CONCERT”...
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Rony,
Actually I did try to drive Melquiades from different source. My old tube buffer, my phonostage and any other not DC-coupled source were not able to drive it. The 6-ch Melquiades is pain in as to drive. It has around 5K input impedance ...
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[quote user="Alex Yakovlev"]Romy, would you mind elaborating on specifics of your power supply? My Bidat is going to John in a couple of weeks and I am finalizing my thoughts. Thank you.[/quote]
I do not have any “specifics of my power supply” as I ...
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[quote user="Vance"] The Shunyata cord PLUS the Hyrdra conditioner represent the single best upgrades to my system aside from John's mods. I was skeptical about power cords and conditioners, but I'm a bit of a fanatic about it now. The testimonials f...
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[quote user="el`Ol"]Sorry for being so nasty, Romy,but I meant connecting the CEC TLO with the Lavry 924 via the dCS 974.[/quote]
I do not see you being nasty, where did you get this from?
May I ask you- what you proposed to drive CEC TLO into dCS ...
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I have been lurking for a while as I am a Bidat owner without being able to help. I have been building computers for more than 20 years and I may be able to help. When you start building machines with lots of drives I think it would be bett...
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I think this topic is very very interesting to me and it is a opportunity those 90% audiophiles (like josh) think more about their objectives .I have pointed it many times in my weblog that romy recommendations (both methods and components) can not h...
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Referring to my post in the Electivity themed:
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=8020
I was tempted today to listen one CD that I brought from my work, so I fired up my CD player (I do not think I use if for a couple month, since th...
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[quote user="Paul S"] I wonder how many cities have good FM programming and broadcasting? Los Angeles was great, back when I lived in Venice, with interesting stuff going on around the clock. San Diego is quite limited, and I get Bupkis f...
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[quote user="TonyB"]Re: Pity[/quote]
I was not looking for the card to do any buffering; quite opposite I was looking for ONLY I/O interface with no logic aboard. To use PC as the music CD server? What for? It might be a WAV files server, but only t...
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[quote user="cv"]I wonder if it is the reactive components (blocking caps etc) that are to blame here, seeing as much of the problem is in the lower bass.[/quote]Chris, what you said made me to think.
Look, the output of Bidat and a SS buffer that b...
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There was a big room in there with big Schweikert speakers (with thier grainy and insultingly confident Sound), some king of not particularly good electronics and the entire EMM Labs’ front-end. Many rooms at the show used EMM Labs so-call preamplifi...
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Hi,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I heard 4 (!!!!) complete contradictory descriptions how high level of jitter manifest itself subjectively – interesting that they all derived from the engineers whose credibility is very high (not juts the audio-tweaker...
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Well, I do not think that I would be able to recode it to CD witch appropriate level of quality but it would be interesting to be able to load it to hard drive and to see if FM level sound still might survive on HD. Also I would be able to writhe a f...
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I looked today at Site Statistic Page and paid attention that the site has 628 unique visitors from Poland that all came to this thread. It looks like someone “Peter Daniel” turned the Polls attention to Synopsis cable.
http://www.audiostereo.pl/for...
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[quote user="Paul S"]OK, I'll be the one who breaks down and asks: Romy, please share about how the system is sounding these days.
I figured you had your hands full with channels integration and balancing, but as I recall you did have one Chan...
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[quote user="Serge"]Well, I always noticed that 'universal' transports which spin the CD at 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x (faster each year) sound much muddier and grainier then the dedicated CD ones. Unfortunately nowadays there are hardly one or two commerc...
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Hi Romy[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
... I decided to listen my native feline instincts and go with them. So, decided to buy a Lavry’s Gold AD122. ....Now, the biggest problem remains what digital I/O PC interface to use after the Lavry’s digital...
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In the Bidat there was a question about the possible price for off the wall DAC that performs well.
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=7159
That lead me to think wider – why do not we base our pricing policies and strategies ...
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I need to say that I did not do any experiments with any commercial audio equipment for a looooong time. Partially I have no needs as I do not buy anything and partially I have no interest. It is not that I have anything against commercial audio ...
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Well, the added benefits of cross-source validation is that some of the sources are stable but others are less stable and might vary in its basic quality with time. For instance digital is very stable and since you once set it up properly then it rem...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Those who do not know how audio sound during the Super Electricity Days they do not know. I do know and I wonder: are the Super Electricity Days have own after-mark. I kind of pissed that it did not hit me early as I mi...
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[quote user="Antonio J."] I really can't understand how a company selling a power regeneration device priced well over 2000 or maybe 3000 USD could send you 5 units and being al them "defective". Did I miss anything here? [/quote]
Nope, you do not m...
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[quote
user="N-set"]…in particular TU-X1 tuner needs quite some
amplification….
[/quote]It is not necessary the
case. My TU-X1 has nigh output, no different than all of my other front ends.
If you look at the schematics of the TU-X1 then you mig...
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I never hit such a huge jackpot as I just did with the Lavry DA-924. The most funny in that even that I did it absolutely blindly. I had some minor beef with DA-924 sound: upperbass/lower midrange and the slightly too much extended HF (very very clea...
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