Replacement for my Upgraded SCD777ES (a bit of a ramble!)

Posted by fmak (A) on September 10, 2009 at 02:23:15

the 777 ES got too tempermantal for me and I decided to find a replacement.

I now have two!

First a Twisted Pear Buffalo dac powered by 7 'super regulators' fed by dsd signal lines from a Pioneer DV-757 playing sacds. Very nice sound and better than I2S pcm at 176.4k or 192k from a well developed PC playing native or upsampled material in terns of overall 'musicality ie balance between hf and lf'. This has still to be boxed.

Second, I have a Pioneer DV 989 with an Audiopraise pcm/dsd card. This removes the retricted 96k digital output and converts dsd to 176.4k pcm.
The card sounds good and much better than the Pioneer output with the OPA 2134 replaced by LM 4562s and the output caps replaced by BGNs. However, I'd heard that the LME49720 metal cans sound better and recently I fitted these. What a surprise, the unit with analog Pioneer output now rivals the Audiopraise 176.4k output fed into my UA2192 dac. In fact I am now listening to Dvorak 9 on the Pentatone DSD recording and it is as good as anything I have heard; again by way of balance in presentation and not ultra clarity or bass impact or whatever hifi term that are often used.

I now have two DV989s (the second one 65% cheaper new!) which are very well made and I plan to have dsd output only with the second unit which would work with a boxed Buffalo and my dCS954 dsd only. The first and original unit will provide the ability to ouput hirez pcm from dvdas and pcm converted dsd.

This way I should have a very flexible hirez system that also sounds very good.

PC audio is simply not the press and play solution I want, although I shall still play with my systems and use these for more casual playing while I work.

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Topic - Replacement for my Upgraded SCD777ES (a bit of a ramble!) - fmak 02:23:15 09/10/09 (27)

and how is this simpler than PC audio? - hermanesque 12:01:02 09/11/09 (11)

RE: and how is this simpler than PC audio? - fmak 12:39:17 09/11/09 (10)

I disagree, where is the clarity of process in an SACD player? - hermanesque 14:13:14 09/11/09 (9)

fmak has clearly grasped the key issue. - Tony Lauck 17:37:52 09/11/09 (8)

RE: fmak has clearly grasped the key issue. - Dawnrazor 23:24:44 09/14/09 (3)

A minimal network DAC. - Tony Lauck 05:05:55 09/15/09 (2)

AFAIK that has been done - Dawnrazor 07:35:06 09/15/09 (1)

RE: AFAIK that has been done - Tony Lauck 08:16:29 09/15/09 (0)

RE: fmak has clearly grasped the key issue. - fmak 06:44:42 09/12/09 (1)

RE: fmak has clearly grasped the key issue. - Tony Lauck 07:50:01 09/12/09 (0)

I think you are looking at it from the wrong angle - hermanesque 18:54:06 09/11/09 (1)

RE: I think you are looking at it from the wrong angle - Tony Lauck 07:05:28 09/12/09 (0)

RE: Replacement for my Upgraded SCD777ES (a bit of a ramble!) - audioAl 23:49:03 09/10/09 (0)

Explain that again Fred - Panelhead 18:32:54 09/10/09 (13)

RE: Explain that again Fred - fmak 22:08:03 09/10/09 (12)

RE: Explain that again Fred - Tony Lauck 09:40:43 09/11/09 (11)

RE: Explain that again Fred - fmak 10:27:02 09/11/09 (10)

RE: Explain that again Fred - Tony Lauck 11:43:19 09/11/09 (9)

RE: Explain that again Fred - fmak 12:48:02 09/11/09 (8)

LME49720HA TO99 - PS Yeo 22:24:46 09/13/09 (1)

RE: LME49720HA TO99 - fmak 23:07:58 09/13/09 (0)

Fred, where do you... - Allen Wright 03:26:51 09/12/09 (2)

RE: Fred, where do you... - tailspn 12:31:43 09/12/09 (0)

RE: Fred, where do you... - fmak 03:33:57 09/12/09 (0)

RE: Explain that again Fred - Dave Garretson 15:30:01 09/11/09 (2)

RE: Explain that again Fred-why? - fmak 06:47:18 09/12/09 (1)

RE: Explain that again Fred-why? - Dave Garretson 08:05:36 09/12/09 (0)

Replacement for my Upgraded SCD777ES (a bit of a ramble!)

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