I am not an audiophile. Not anymore. My spare time became so limited that I
listen to music just when I am doing the work on my comp. I have been cruising
through the threads (all kinds) as am in a new system building. Even the front
loaded horns will be gone (i attached the pics - they look cool in the evening -
I attached a light into the back). They employ a modified fe206e with truncated
wheezer (made into a 11-ray-shaped star) and all other mods you can dig out on
the net. I have been into the hi-fi madness for 13 years and had several systems
(but mostly into all kind of Fullrange speaker projects with monachor, fostex,
eminence, tangband etc...al from OBs to horns and Br, sealed...)and heard some
very intersting ones too. The chase for the new system began after my modded
marantz cd53 became unstable and my MF A1 slowly passing away. Since then I
listened only to UCD180 amp and felt like it is a sonic amp (in short:better
soundstage and imaging then most amps I heard, great bass leading maybe not so
tuneful as A1 but quality jumped up, very undistorted sound, even the fostex did
not scream at loud volumes, very coherent, some problems with the reverberation
and note decay a bit truncated there, maybe too sharp for the utter involvement
but I do have horns so maybe bit a more mushy speakers) without the music singing
quality inherited. That turned me away a bit and started to look to some SKA kits
and new Aksa LF55. These week will probably listen to some more amps, including
aksa 100 N+. The choice here is to be made yet. But with turning the head to the
new source the problems rise. I can listen diverse amps but the music sources
here in slovenia are very limited...that is what I can only rely by your posts
and your likening. So... I pointed down the Arcam diva 73T, Shanling T80 and
maybe used JVC 1010 or meridian 506II after a lot of reading. My budget for the
source is up to 500$. I am not the kind of guy that wants the best for the buck,
I learned that priorities should be made if one wants to track down the right
component when it comes to a budget. Listening session years ago taught me that
companies do have home sound character to all units and some are doing also the
balanced approach (if their amp is analitycal and they know it- as they wanted it
to be, they make cd player a bit more lush sounding so the pair goes hand in hand
and you buy synergy from one brand- they know that balanced product, neutral
sounding with high resoulution, highly transparent and blablabla are
characteristics for their top notch range...). Listen to NAD, listen to ARcam,
listen to Sony, listen to Linn, Naim, Musical Fidelity (ther is a bias!) listen
to Micromega... They are all doing it and they all prefer one kind of sound over
the other. therefore mine would be: transparent and lush, colourful and musical,
bass quality not as important then highs and mids. 3D imaging must be good, a
sense of real musician playing in the room is prefered over the small illusion of
the projected soundstage. hence the horns. That is why I can live with
fullrangers I guess I listen to all good music and prefer musicality over
technicality (UCD will be banned probably just because of this simple reason, but
is a moajor one when you listen for the uisc all the time).
But... like I said- my computer is turned on all the time, my collection of mp3s
is getting bigger and bigger and I was wondering- is it possible to turn the PC
to a music database without loosing to much against these cd players? For 500$
there must be a great soundcard and s/pdif combination somewhere? I searched the
forum but could not find anything on these (except some PS2 and ipod threads).
These solution I find the best as is a transit one. The media will change, the
amps will change and in five years (that is usually my period of changing,
upgrading hi-fi) I will be ready. I would be really glad if this solution could
prevail as a new Cd player still sounds like a minor step and PC based music
store as a major one. But music first, technology second.
realy thanks.
tine
listen to music just when I am doing the work on my comp. I have been cruising
through the threads (all kinds) as am in a new system building. Even the front
loaded horns will be gone (i attached the pics - they look cool in the evening -
I attached a light into the back). They employ a modified fe206e with truncated
wheezer (made into a 11-ray-shaped star) and all other mods you can dig out on
the net. I have been into the hi-fi madness for 13 years and had several systems
(but mostly into all kind of Fullrange speaker projects with monachor, fostex,
eminence, tangband etc...al from OBs to horns and Br, sealed...)and heard some
very intersting ones too. The chase for the new system began after my modded
marantz cd53 became unstable and my MF A1 slowly passing away. Since then I
listened only to UCD180 amp and felt like it is a sonic amp (in short:better
soundstage and imaging then most amps I heard, great bass leading maybe not so
tuneful as A1 but quality jumped up, very undistorted sound, even the fostex did
not scream at loud volumes, very coherent, some problems with the reverberation
and note decay a bit truncated there, maybe too sharp for the utter involvement
but I do have horns so maybe bit a more mushy speakers) without the music singing
quality inherited. That turned me away a bit and started to look to some SKA kits
and new Aksa LF55. These week will probably listen to some more amps, including
aksa 100 N+. The choice here is to be made yet. But with turning the head to the
new source the problems rise. I can listen diverse amps but the music sources
here in slovenia are very limited...that is what I can only rely by your posts
and your likening. So... I pointed down the Arcam diva 73T, Shanling T80 and
maybe used JVC 1010 or meridian 506II after a lot of reading. My budget for the
source is up to 500$. I am not the kind of guy that wants the best for the buck,
I learned that priorities should be made if one wants to track down the right
component when it comes to a budget. Listening session years ago taught me that
companies do have home sound character to all units and some are doing also the
balanced approach (if their amp is analitycal and they know it- as they wanted it
to be, they make cd player a bit more lush sounding so the pair goes hand in hand
and you buy synergy from one brand- they know that balanced product, neutral
sounding with high resoulution, highly transparent and blablabla are
characteristics for their top notch range...). Listen to NAD, listen to ARcam,
listen to Sony, listen to Linn, Naim, Musical Fidelity (ther is a bias!) listen
to Micromega... They are all doing it and they all prefer one kind of sound over
the other. therefore mine would be: transparent and lush, colourful and musical,
bass quality not as important then highs and mids. 3D imaging must be good, a
sense of real musician playing in the room is prefered over the small illusion of
the projected soundstage. hence the horns. That is why I can live with
fullrangers I guess I listen to all good music and prefer musicality over
technicality (UCD will be banned probably just because of this simple reason, but
is a moajor one when you listen for the uisc all the time).
But... like I said- my computer is turned on all the time, my collection of mp3s
is getting bigger and bigger and I was wondering- is it possible to turn the PC
to a music database without loosing to much against these cd players? For 500$
there must be a great soundcard and s/pdif combination somewhere? I searched the
forum but could not find anything on these (except some PS2 and ipod threads).
These solution I find the best as is a transit one. The media will change, the
amps will change and in five years (that is usually my period of changing,
upgrading hi-fi) I will be ready. I would be really glad if this solution could
prevail as a new Cd player still sounds like a minor step and PC based music
store as a major one. But music first, technology second.
realy thanks.
tine
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I use a PC (good power supply - Antec)with a modded EMU 1212m (replaced caps with OSCON SEP ) sound card, SPDIF out to this dac , into UcD400 and Infinity RS II speakers. Sound is very airy and musical, musicality has to come from the source, the best amp would be a wire with gain as somebody said.
that is great news
thank you for what I think right now is a support of thinking in the right direction. Had you compared the resolution of sound you get from PC to the one from a good CD player - is there any kind of loss of information? I am sceptical abot this just because I compared the sound through my headphones from the several copied audio CDs (TDK, SONY, MITSUMI,... with different coloured plates) and found that any CD I burnt from hard disk back had some loss in one or more areas. TDK was far greater thn others. I remember Sony being the worst (smeared dynamics, some details were totaly obsolete from music, softe highs, no bottom grip - it really reminded me of their CD XB900E I had). Does these occour when you store data on HD also and which software do you recommend? I heard some good things about Nuendo today (from a friend musician) but did not "investigate" futher. Oh, I am becoming the same ____phile again.
Nice sounds to all!
thank you for what I think right now is a support of thinking in the right direction. Had you compared the resolution of sound you get from PC to the one from a good CD player - is there any kind of loss of information? I am sceptical abot this just because I compared the sound through my headphones from the several copied audio CDs (TDK, SONY, MITSUMI,... with different coloured plates) and found that any CD I burnt from hard disk back had some loss in one or more areas. TDK was far greater thn others. I remember Sony being the worst (smeared dynamics, some details were totaly obsolete from music, softe highs, no bottom grip - it really reminded me of their CD XB900E I had). Does these occour when you store data on HD also and which software do you recommend? I heard some good things about Nuendo today (from a friend musician) but did not "investigate" futher. Oh, I am becoming the same ____phile again.
Nice sounds to all!
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