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In Reply to: RE: DACs, DACs, DACs!!!!!!! ???? Why are there so few good ADCs? posted by Timbo in Oz on November 13, 2016 at 13:20:16
I've been very happy with all the ADCs I've owned over the years. Which ones did you own that you felt were not good?
My first ADCs were in Sony DAT recorders and they satisfied me at the time. Later I bought a TASCAM DAT and a TASCAM CD recorder, both of which had good ADCs as far as I could tell. Next, I graduated to an Alesis Masterlink and now I have a TASCAM DA-3000 DSD recorder. I can't say I have any complaints about any of the ADCs in any of those digital recorders. Of course, I'm most fond of recording vinyl in DSD 5.6M with my TASCAM DA-3000, which seems to have one of the best sounding DACs I've heard, too.
Best regards,
John Elison
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I am interested in getting one - to play 2Ch analogue recordings through in real time.
And run that output into a room DSP, crossover and delay box, and absolute polarity switching. Say from Mini-DSP with a nice big PSU.
I doubt I'll be buying an ADC before a year, or even two, is out.
I will be seeing how I go with swarm subs from 150Hz down (3rd order Lpass) and 1/3rd octave analogue Eqr's for the bass only, for the near future.
Instead I will be buying more recordings, and might buy an SACD player for the sound system. I'll be installing a spare pr of speakers for rear sound, using derived L-R signal plus differential delay. Until / If I have a lot of MCh. music.
The HT system in the family-room kitchen might get a universal MCh AV player, and sooner than the ADC and DSP kit.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
if you are going to do DSP.
Perhaps checkout DEQX a one-box ADC + speaker DSP correction + room DSP correction. And they are Australian - how can you not like that combination?
Regards
13DoW
And difficult and slow to set-up.[I have a friend who has had a used one for ages - and still hasn't Dsp'd the room response with it. !!?! yes!]
Especially considering that it seems that the right Mini-DSP box / boxes can do what I want for far less. Even with the price of RTA SW for my tablet, and a test signal source / test CD, and a suitable mike. I have a stand already.
Noting that I doubt I will be eq-ing the 63s much or at all, as they are dipoles,and won't be doing much in the bass. Even if their amps are being fed by a DSp/DAC output signal, I don't want to damage their impulse response with Eq.
The most I am likely to use is a slope-control ? > < to adjust the whole sound for over-bright or dull (old?!) recordings. And that might go in the analogue pre, if Mini-DSP's range can't meet that need.
Or there's D-Speakers latest room-eq device, which does have a slope control?
I Hope to learn a lot from the analogue 1/3rd octave Eq and Diy Swarm subs. There are three stages to that. All using 1/3rd octave eq per channel / even per bass source, when I can scrounge some more.
Stage 1? will use two pairs of the *Audiosphere 3s in an arc from and behind and back to the QUADs, *the speaker I bought instead of a pr of 57s back in the late 1970s. Plus another pair bought since. Two of which IME(&O) do a good enough job on 32ft organ pedal reeds with some room-gain. Their Fb being 38Hz with a QB3 slope. I won't be using the 20Hz sliders on them, but I will see if a touch of boost at 30Hz helps.
Stage 2 is when I add two sealed DIY (clam-shelled P-P driver) subs, and can give away the newer pair of Audiosphere 3s. It's then that I will need at least a fourth 1/3rd octave Eq.
Stage 3 is when I add two tall TL subs using a recent Martin King design and KEF B139s. And can use my original pair of 'sphere 3s for rear surround duty.
For an ADC - and DSP - I will still have to save up, so it will be a while. :-)!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 11/16/16
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