Recent content by jimmy.cross

I'm cosidering a system for my office. I don't really want to spend much money, but I am considering the following options: . A pair of active speakers like the Aktimate Mini's (I have an arcam rPac that could be used as source). . A simple Nuforce Icon-2 (really cheap now that they are...

Where can you buy the Sonos connect for £139?? It is an interesting price for sure.

Hi I tested the M51 (no preamp enabled) at home a couple of months ago. It was very good, very deep meaty bass and not a single hint of harsness in the treeble. However, when I compared it to the MDAC and I could not justify the price difference: they sounded very similar with my amp/speakers...

Good point. I just bought a new TV and I don't have a CD player or a BD player, but I do have a MDAC. So the idea was to get a BD player that gives good image quality and use it as a CD transport also. This lead me to a situation were I am trying to decide between the Sony S790 and Panasonic...

The conversion should be lossless, I agree (although lossless is one thing and bitperfect is a totally different thing). Just a question that made me think the oposite: If you use an external AV receiver to decode and process the digital sound (in 5.1 or stereo mode), the sound should be the...

Hi, unfortunately, most stereo dacs on the market do NOT decode DSD. The input data has to be PCM. I would assume that a s790 should do the job, IF the signal is only converted to PCM, however, if any kind of processing is done before the convertion, the sound will be affected. If I remember...

Ok, so let's say I pick the Sony s790. Shall I assume that it can output the pcm signal? Moreover, accoring to the WHF review, it is a limited CD player, but would it be a good CD transport for my MDAC? Cheers!

Hi, I am trying to find a relatively cheap bluray player (<£400) that could be used also as a CD/SACD transport for my Audiolab mdac. The cd part is easy but not as obvious with sacd. In principle, the player has to convert the DSD signal into a high-res lpcm stream, so the dac can process it...

;) It took me a while to find a good match for my CM7.

Hi, I spent quite some time figuring out a good amp for my CM7 about one year ago. In the end I narrowed my list to the Naim Nait 5i and Roksan Kandy mk2. The Naim Nait 5i with my CM7 sounded terrific!!! The Roksan was lacking detail in the bass, and it never went as deep as the Naim. In the...

Hi, good point...there is a very high chance that the MDAC unit I borrowed was not properly run-in, but I could only haveit for one night :-/ I will try to borrow it again...

Hi, I know I am not the first person asking this question, although the previous posts didn't really solve my question. I am planning an update of our old 26inch TV+DVD set. We have already narrowed down the TV to the LG {47,55}LM670T but I am a bit lost with the blu-ray player. I am used to...

Hi, I am using a Naim Nait XS-2 with the bigger brothers CM7 and the combination is fantastic. If it is too expensive, the Naim Nait 5i is also a very good option (very similar sound but a bit less refined in certain areas). The B&W CM series have the nautilus tweeter, which can be excited...

By the way, I forgot to mention that I used the Optical interface in all cases to compare the DACs.

For some reason (that I cannot understand) the Naim dac retails much more expensive than in the UK and the NAD much cheaper...in Sweden. NAD m51: 12990 SEK Rega DAC: 6000 SEK Audiolab mdac: ~7000 SEK (very rare to find) Naim DAC: 25000-26000 SEK (The exchange rate is 1GBP = 11 SEK) The...