I have a McIntosh 2100 that was performance certified in 1976 at a clinic. Now it needs service - one of the channels intermittently drops. Do they still have those free clinics?
My Pioneer PDR-04 standalone CD recorder collapsed and I decided not to go with the quoted repair bill of $900 Australian (about $850 US) ..... a tad more than the unit cost about eight years ago. I just picked up an as-new secondhand PDR-609 as a far more economic replacement. Just one thing though -- the 04 unit said it used 1-bit... more »
does anyone have a 'fix' on how to get the Pioneer CD burner to ignore SCMS so I don't have to rely on expensive and increasingly hard to find 'audio only' blank discs? I still have lots of my LPs to transcribe, so this would be really useful. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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My (limited) understanding is that what makes high-end CD players so good is their superior Digital to Analog conversion. So if you're going to take the digital output (optic or coax) from such players and plug it into a amplifier you're NOT going to get any benefit; you might as well play the CDs on a 20 dollar CD player. To really enjoy their superior... more »
November 2007 presentation at the U.K. AES is now on their website as an MP3 -- [link] it's also available in snippets on Youtube in 10 minute snippets. Jack
Hello, I am in the market for a DAC. And like most computer hardware, only a few manufacturers make DAC chips. Many people design different output stages for the DACs but even the best designed output stage is only as good as the source feeding it. So I got to wondering: who makes the best DAC chips?... more »
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