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Name:
  Stephen Best
Details:
  Site Owner
Location:
  Australia
HiFi:
  SA-CD stereo:
Marantz SA-11S2
Musical Fidelity A300
B&W Nautilus 805
Sennheiser HD800 and Lehmann Black Cube Linear
Cardas cables

SA-CD multichannel, PCM, movies:
Denon DBT-3313UD
Denon AVR-3313
Apple Mac mini with Audirvana Plus
Apple TV
NAD M51
Peachtree Nova
Monitor Audio Silver RX6 x 4, RX Centre
Sennheiser HD800
Cardas and Supra cables
Email:
  stephen@sa-cd.net
Web:
  http://www.sa-cd.net
Posts:
  2721

 
 
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Latest Posts

Elgar/Payne Symphony no 3 (Naxos)
May 7, 2013
If someone wants to offer an amount that I can retire on I may be convinced to part with my copy. ... more
Discussion: Haydn: London Symphonies Vol. 2 - Bruno Weil
April 29, 2013
Yes, excellent news ... thanks. ... more
Universal Music 25 new "Blu-Ray Audio" format titles for May
April 29, 2013
If the original question couldn't be answered with some 300+ replies, I doubt it ever will. Personally I welcome new opportunities to buy music with great sound, but if they're mainly orchestral favourites I'll pass. My only interest here is to keep the site focussed. ... more
Really dumb question
April 23, 2013
DSD over HDMI is allowed because the connection supports copy protection (HDCP). This enables transfer of the bitstream to receivers etc. The reason that there's a plethora of DACs offering DSD is that the off-the-shelf chips used already likely support it and it's fairly trivial to add it to the feature list. Whether software availability ever ... more
Really dumb question
April 22, 2013
Interesting, if true. Though it already does such a great job with PCM (at any sampling). Adding DSD would at least allow you to pay more for your downloads ... ... more