In Reply to: RE: Long time no hear :-) posted by Ted Smith on October 24, 2010 at 21:04:08:
I'm probably going in the opposite direction (most of the music I listen to these days are MP3 -v2 ~190 kbps on cheap Sennheiser earbuds so in comparison 16/44.1 sounds like heaven)
I do miss DSD though. Unfortunately, my XA777ES haven't really worked properly for a few years now (it's been to the shop a few times, and they have replaced the laser, upgraded the firmware, replaced the DAC op amps, and I can't remember what else but it still doesn't play very well)
I now have a Oppo BDP-83SE NuForce Edition. I like the NuForce sound, but the PRaT is not as good as my custom music PC, and somehow the overall sound is a bit too overblown/larger than life for me. But for watching Blurays it's fine and the exaggeration kinda works :-)
I'm not a big fan of USB audio but have learnt to live with it since I'm still using my old Edirol SD-90 in my DAW. It's quite noisy (since it's a US model and the power supply does not filter the Aust 50 Hz artefacts very well) but for monitoring on headphones and sending to my powered monitors they seem fine.
I also bought an E-MU 0404 USB on my last trip to the States. The playback was a tad disappointing but the recording is fantastic - I have been using it to record my LPs at 24/96.
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- RE: Long time no hear :-) - Christine Tham 21:45:48 10/24/10 (0)