Mono and Stereo - Senior Contributing Reviewer turntable: American Sound AS-2000; tonearms: SME 3012R, Bergmann Audio Odin; cartridges: ZYX UNIverse Premium X-SB2, Air Tight Opus 1; tape: Studer A820 Mk II; phono stage: Aesthetix Io Eclipse; line stage: VTL TL-7.5 Series III; amplifier: VTL Siegfried Series II; loudspeaker: Gryphon Pendragon; cables: MasterBuilt Ultra; stands: Vintage Audio Nothing racks, Herzan TS-140/Taiko Tana for Io, Stacore Basic+ for amps; power: Torus AVR60BAL; room: 19' wide X 24' long X 14' tall; acoustic treatment: ASC IsoThermal Tube Traps, Lumitex drapes. CH Precision Basic Digital Stack - D1, C1, X1 Dual Board What I have presently is part of the original CH runs. The C1 is fully loaded with all of the optional boards of the time and the units likewise have the firmware of their generation. By that I mean they do not have the newer CH-Link boards and until I upload the new firmware which I already have onn a USB stick, they can't be seen by the current CH App. By Basic I mean I have the stereo as opposed to mono layouts and I do not have the T1 clock yet.
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Can someone please rotate this for me? I have no idea why it did this! My preference when it comes to digital playback is a little bit different. While I have been a tube guy for the majority of my immersed audiophile life, I have always gone for SS DACs. This is not to say that there aren't any tube DACs that I could very well live happily with. There have been a few I have been enamored with like those from Zanden and Lampizator.
I suppose this is the case because while I did my share of analog recording, mixing and post, I spent far more time in the digital domain with Protools and Neve. The challenge was always to get the sound glitch free and natural since I was doing sound for TV and film mostly. I guess that imprinted on me a set of standards for digital playback where I really want to hear what the engineers did. That is probably why I used EMMLabs for a very long time.
Yet, later still, I figured my preference lay in Ladder architecture by a slim margin over Delta Sigma converters just as I am the oddball that likes DSD for what it is but generally prefer 24/96 for general listening. I won't go into the features of the stack as the website is pretty thorough as well as the fact that many reviews have been written about this generation of CH products. They lock on easily with any input and are simply hassle free once you get a hang of the concentric ring controls. Sound wise they are quite transparent/colorless as is my preference. They are brutally honest. The downside to this honesty is that it will spill its gutts not just about the recordings but will do so with regards to how poorly or how well you've address your power.
Classic studio equipment behavior. Great recordings sound great and bad ones, well, bad. The D1 playing discs beats my W20 albeit I use the W20 much more often because of pure convenience with regards to where the heck I put my CDs and SACDs in the first place. Besides I am a vinyl guy first when it comes to hunkering down so my standards adjust accordingly.
Suffice it to say that the C1 shares the CH house sound and it is a sound I like. The Da Vinci Dual is more weighty and dense just as the EERAs are but again the CH wins out on spatial projection. That bears repeating here because this spatiality is the offshoot of the unit's very high level of resolution. While the sound is truly digital, as opposed to some other DACs that are voiced to sound more like good analog, it bares the care taken in every recording or transfer. It is also good enough that I can swap between LP and Digital with only minor mental adjustments just because I think the units play to digital's strengths while mitigating a lot of the weaknesses.
The X1 mitigates these further as will the addition of the T1 clock which adds density and weight. The T1 will definitely be in the cards for me when my poor bank account recover.
Mono and Stereo - Senior Contributing Reviewer turntable: American Sound AS-2000; tonearms: SME 3012R, Bergmann Audio Odin; cartridges: ZYX UNIverse Premium X-SB2, Air Tight Opus 1; tape: Studer A820 Mk II; phono stage: Aesthetix Io Eclipse; line stage: VTL TL-7.5 Series III; amplifier: VTL Siegfried Series II; loudspeaker: Gryphon Pendragon; cables: MasterBuilt Ultra; stands: Vintage Audio Nothing racks, Herzan TS-140/Taiko Tana for Io, Stacore Basic+ for amps; power: Torus AVR60BAL; room: 19' wide X 24' long X 14' tall; acoustic treatment: ASC IsoThermal Tube Traps, Lumitex drapes. Hallo to everybody,sorry to repeat,my first tube was in 1979,ARC D 90 B,and the last Kondo Souga in 2015. I loved all my tube amp i had,ARC D 250,Arc M 300,Jadis 30,80,200,500,Carver Silver 7,for one week,Klimo OTL,M&A TVA1,Hal AMP,Counterpoint,Panthere,Yamamura,all top Audio Tekne,FAL integrated,top Dissanayake,ANJ M10,Kageki,Baransu,Neiro,Neiro Silver,Ongaku Gakuon,Mactone M8V otl mono,Shindo Petrus,300B limited and Shinonia,ANUK Jinro,Leak tl 12,QuadII,Radford sta 15,Mc Intosh MC 240,MC30,MC60,MC75 all very beautiful,but now i love my CH and i don't want change with anything. Speaker: Wilson X1 + Velodyne DD18+ Source: Zanden 4-Box Digital Amp: CJ GAT2 + Gryphon Colosseum Cable: TA Opus - Gen5 & MM2 + PAD 25 th + Sablon GCUber 16 'Isolation Sandwiches': Under:HRS+Stillpoints+Auralex Top: HRS+Artesania+Entreq+EAT+90kg Mass Damping Power: 7 + 16A Furutech + Burmester 948 + NordostQX4 Ground/Shield: Tripoint Troy Sig w/Thor + Entreq Atlantis / Entreq Receivus+Everest+Wrap Room/Tube: Stillpoints Apertures / Amperex + Mullard Headphone Setup: Sennheiser 650 + Arcam rHead + Apogee Groove. About us. What’s Best Forum is THE forum for high end audio, product reviews, advice and sharing experiences on the best of everything else.
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