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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Of course! by Chirag on 2005-06-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: BiDat: One more output in Didital Things  5 Replies 
Hi Romy,Bidat IS quite a bit better than any dac i've used in that upper range (or any where else), but there is a bit of hardness there that I have problems killing off in my system.  Its not possibly enough to motivate me to do actively do som...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Thanks by Telstar on 2008-02-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Reference Recordings “digital master” and Berkeley's new DAC in Didital Things  13 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have heard 2 positive comments from a people who used the Berkeley Alfa DAC. One of them is in sales and obviously off any credentials. Another person is just a user who used reportedly the DAC at CES (prototype version),...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Lavry/MSB by coops on 2007-12-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DA architecture: True Multibit vs. anything else. in Didital Things  17 Replies 
Romy Hi sorry to have wandered off topic, I  am listening at the moment to an MSB Platinum Dac III, hoiping to get the lavry back for comparison, I believe the MSB is multi bit based on a ladder resistor , with 4 24 bit DAc modules,tremendous re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #27: Source to preamp by Bill on 2023-09-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy the Cat's Audio recommendation: the biggest bang fo... in Audio For Dummies ™  46 Replies 
if there is only one output on the source, it should feed the main speaker preamp or Dac. The preamp or dac digital or analog output would the feed the pre-pro or receiver with auro 3d capability which would then feed the ambiance channels.If the sou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: What does it mean" the best DAC"? by Romy the Cat on 2015-12-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Really Expensive DACs? in Didital Things  29 Replies 
Well, this is a big subject. Kind of. For sure a better DAC produce better sound. How much a better DAC shall cost? That is a complicated topic that has absolutely no relation to how the DAC sound. I remember a dealer that I know pick up a new spe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Maybe I will not order the Pure Teflon capacitors after all. Or the up... by oxric on 2011-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Memory Player Box? in Didital Things  2 Replies 
I thought I would look at the Memory Player specs and was surprised to be greeted by what is in my books an obscene price list. But it may be quite cheap for others. These things are all relative of course.Best regardsRakeshThe Memory Player 64 T...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Still only a thought bubble by anthony on 2019-04-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Still, I feel that methodologically it is not right way to build a playback.   [/quote]No disagreement from me on this point.  This is all just a thought bubble for now.  Even if I wanted to press go on this project based ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: USB or do not USB? by Romy the Cat on 2008-09-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Gordon Rankin, it is the guy who promotes the silver-wired transformers? Oh, yes I need to put him my news section…. On the serious note I do not know if your IT people are correct as it might be too deal question to them and average corporate IT pe...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #120: Bypassing the DEQs DAC... by scooter on 2009-02-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
No question the Behringer has a ton of functionality, especially at under $300. The simple RTA is useful on the fly. I think and hope this tool will help with the MiniMe development. I always wondered why the DEQ sounded so veiled but suspected ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Installation by peter foster on 2008-07-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Tuners and digital noise from DAW, A/D and D/A in Off Air Audio  10 Replies 
The Lavry DA-924 and Sansui TU-X1 are on separate equipment legs/chains and only come together at inputs to the amplifier.  They also are on separate uninterruptible power supplies that are on separate legs of our wall supplies.  Also,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Recording options: Pacific Microsonics vs. Lavry Gold. in Didital Things  24 Replies 
As a new concert season is coming up with BSO opening night next week I was sprucing up my recording studio. The machine is 3MHz with 2G memory – plenty run SoundLab5. The SoundLab just record and play, I do absolutely nothing else in this software, ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: DAC 4 by Amir on 2017-02-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: EAR Yoshino DAC 4 by Tim Paravicini in Didital Things  24 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f6-dac-digital-analog-conversion/ear-yoshino-digital-analogue-converter-4-digital-analog-converter-31735/#post638728 [/quote]OK, you can completely delete this post...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: Dacs and transports by steverino on 2014-12-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Shopping for DSD Converters? Here's One From the Lampizator.... in Audio News  18 Replies 
I am no expert on digital although I certainly read a lot on DSD and DVD-A back in the day. However, once you use the standard D/A chip as lampizator acknowledges, you are at the point of a tweaker for the rest. It is like a speaker manufacturer who ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: 176/24 Track by DOT*SYSTEM on 2010-02-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog Transfer: the first draft. in Didital Things  19 Replies 
OK Romy, I get it. You may believe that the act of the DVD-A creation software will alter the music bits as seen by the transport/DAC. I believe the software is only encapsulating the data into the DVD-A binary image. My current PC music streamer, a ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Modded Denon by Jorge on 2011-09-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A contemporary great CD transport for under $100. in Didital Things  5 Replies 
I have a Fosell transport for some years now I upgraded from a CEC TL-1 which was miles behind...I use an EAD 7000 III  DAC which I kept after having both the 9000 and the 7000,  the mian difference between them is the preamp section of the 9000, so ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Internet radio by RonyWeissman on 2012-05-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Why I hate computer playback. in Didital Things  17 Replies 
At the risk of sounding like a  yahoo, can i ask you romy if you have used your PC for internet radio playback. , as opposed to cd or other forms of digital playback ? My cd collection played out of iTunes to my DAC sounds lifeless, pointless.  Howev...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: I still have a real aversion to SACD players, but... by manisandher on 2012-04-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To buy an SACD Player? in Didital Things  7 Replies 
... am intrigued with DSD DACs. And for three main reasons:1) If you look at the attached jpeg (taken from http://www.korg.com/services/products/mr/Future_Proof_Recording_Explaine...), DSD recording appears to have a simpler path than most modern PCM...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Some comments and fantasies. by Romy the Cat on 2013-07-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DAC Recommendations in Didital Things  44 Replies 
It is astonishing: what “scooter” wrote in his “Ultra box” post above is what I would write myself. Anyhow, Charlus when you wrote about “single DAC possessing virtues entirely harmonious with all three sources” then I very much understand wh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: The Multibit vs. Multibit by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: DA architecture: True Multibit vs. anything else. in Didital Things  17 Replies 
Jim, do I know you? I ask because I know one Jim near Boston who has Lavry DAC and who has the new Thorsten's Abbingdon Music Research. The Thorsten's DAC should be Multibit as. It might be very interesting and I assure you very educational for you ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: RE: the "New" DAC by Romy the Cat on 2007-10-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A littlie D-War: Bidat vs. Lavry Gold in Didital Things  14 Replies 
I was under impression that it was obvious what the new “investigational” DAC was. It was the Pacific. http://www.euphonix.com/post/products/converters/model_two.htmThe link to the entire thread about the Pacific was linked to the current thread. In ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #47: Was it preamp or DAC’s volume control? by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
Cyrille, thanks for the comments. The KOtriode’s 6C33C preamp is certainly a unique thing and not a lot of people have reference how it might sound. Not it is too complex but rather not a lot of people have balls to make preamp out 6C33C. In fact yea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Get rid of the V-Link by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-16 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Asyncronus USB in Didital Things  12 Replies 
[quote user="David"]I think for a start there are so many different ways of getting a sound that is acceptable to the listener it pays not to be too dogmatic.I am in the early days of developing my system with speakers from 4 different manufacturers ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #169: Digital recording/mixing/mastering by Amir on 2022-05-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"]Interesting that problems Harley isolated in this case (pits and lands; turntable) were physical/mechanical, utimately "analog", in that sense. I'm glad someone has stayed after it, but not sure how to put this revelation to work...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #25: only digital in by op.9 on 2007-02-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Barn Conversion - James' Project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  28 Replies 
Thanks Romy, very interesting thread.I've never tried the analogue inputs for the DEQ2496. If I want analogue in (which is rarely) I use a mytek a/d which sounds quite nice (but oneday when I get the time I'm going to modify it with i/p transformers ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #927: Too complicated but who knows by joaco on 2011-12-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Yes , romy I understand completely about how you feel with dc i feel the same way when thinking on all my system , to put dc on an amp , directly can be great but not practical , will requiere lot of space , a big battery bank etc etc , so not practi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: AMR DP-777 Bit Perfect I by Amir on 2018-11-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Paul McGowan. tubes in preamp in Audio News  12 Replies 
I have listened to AMR DP-777 DAC (SE versio and upgraded nos tubes) many times.in my idea the best sound of AMR dac come from "Bit-Perfect I" filter if you listen to good records. if i put bad records then there is no difference between filters and ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #32: No brainer by manisandher on 2009-06-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]... but for a person who works in the marketing you sound too naïve...[/quote]Well, I didn't say I was any good...[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Somebody with knowledge how Pacific DAC works need to overview this…[/quote]Surely...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: CEC equalization... by scooter on 2009-09-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: CEC TL0-X: by no means an in-depth review in Didital Things  17 Replies 
Mr. Lapmpizator is a character. From a technician's standpoint, he should get credit for tearing apart the CEC transport and sorting out the SPDIF trace. Loved the disguised motor, where the costume cost more than the crappy chinese motor (new $4, le...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #34: Noise? Go optical... by tuga on 2008-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
[quote user="alexd"]Hi all.We are small company, dedicated to creation of highest quality audio products. Analog and Digital. We have auditioned many music servers on the market.However most of them do not sound as good as good quality 16Bits cd tran...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Yes, this is very interesting indeed. by Romy the Cat on 2013-12-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A CD player of today… 20 years after TL0 in Didital Things  32 Replies 
The new reference Lavry that eventually does 4X  is a very cool idea. The volume control is a bit damn thing to have in there, particularly for pro unit but it is what it is, thank God it is analog volume control anyhow. The mono switch is also a coo...
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