"herr dirigent" wrote in message
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: Andy Evans ha scritto:
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: I can only report some subjective evaluations taken from
the Net - it's
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: Thanks!!
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I have just been through this and nearly bought the
Benchmark unit myself.

I've ended up with this
http://www.cec-web.co.jp/products/dac/dx71mk2_e.html

I am extremely impressed with this unit.

Regards TT

I've ended up with this
http://www.cec-web.co.jp/products/dac/dx71mk2_e.html
I am extremely impressed with this unit.

It looks great. To my mind this really is the way to go - the
DAC-Preamp. All your digital sources go into it and there you are.

Can you give us a fuller description of how it operates and sounds, and
in what ways it was better than the other equipment you had before or
tried out?

I can't find any reviews of this, so the above would be welcome.

"Andy Evans" wrote in
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I've ended up with this
http://www.cec-web.co.jp/products/dac/dx71mk2_e.html
I am extremely impressed with this unit.

It looks great. To my mind this really is the way to go -
the
DAC-Preamp. All your digital sources go into it and there
you are.

Can you give us a fuller description of how it operates
and sounds, and
in what ways it was better than the other equipment you
had before or
tried out?

I can't find any reviews of this, so the above would be
welcome.


Apologies for the late reply.

What I have been able to achieve with this is to "shorten"
the chain of gear and hopefully keep the signal integrity
more intact. So I now use the CEC as a DAC and a pre-amp
using it's balanced outputs direct to my Australian made
ME850's balanced inputs. So when I feed an AES/EBU (as
opposed to SPDIF) signal to the CEC I can use it's onboard
Clock and the result is IMHO quite spectacular. I really
never thought garden variety red book CDs could sound so
good. I will need to do some DBTs to compare to the
SACD/DVD-A equivalents now to confirm some this of course.

Doing a comparison with my Marantz DV8300 (multi player)
using SPDIF/TOSlink and then through a pre-amp I could not
tell a difference until I swapped the CEC to pre-amp
function as well.

The biggest gain I have noticed is "magically" that
fatiguing CD sound has gone and it has that more natural
SACD/analog sound.

It is still early days and I am still tweaking (playing
around) with this thing but my initial opinion is that it
really is something special.

BTW I am using this to feed the CEC


http://www.creative.com/products/pro...roduct=1 5189

So I can output a AES/EBU digital signal up to 192/24 and
set the preferences to allow for an external clock i.e. the
CEC's. So I keep a faithful digital signal all the way to
DAC/pre-amp.

I hope some of this helps. My suggestion is try to get hold
of a unit and demo it for yourself.

Regards TT

I hope some of this helps. My suggestion is try to get hold of a unit
and demo it for yourself.

I'm alright for a DAC, but I do have to get a sound card to input midi
to my computer since I want to put down all my songs in MIDI. 16 track
would be just fine. Do you use yours for home recording off a keyboard?

"Andy Evans" wrote in message
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I hope some of this helps. My suggestion is try to get hold of a unit
and demo it for yourself.

I'm alright for a DAC, but I do have to get a sound card to input midi
to my computer since I want to put down all my songs in MIDI. 16 track
would be just fine. Do you use yours for home recording off a keyboard?

No. I have just about finished putting all my CDs on HD. I am using it as
a computer to hi-fi interface. Also because it has a RIAA phono stage as
well I can also transcribe LPs.

I chose it because of the very high pro specs.

Regards TT

"TT" wrote



The biggest gain I have noticed is "magically" that
fatiguing CD sound has gone and it has that more natural
SACD/analog sound.


*Ding Dong*........

;-)

"Keith G" wrote in message
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"TT" wrote



The biggest gain I have noticed is "magically" that
fatiguing CD sound has gone and it has that more natural
SACD/analog sound.


*Ding Dong*........

;-)

Despite years of the Great Arny Krueger trying to convince me "that *all* CD
players the same and *ALL* DACs sound the same and that an external DAC is a
complete "waste" of time I believe I have found something that works
exceptionally well.

Regards TT

"TT" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote in message
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"TT" wrote



The biggest gain I have noticed is "magically" that
fatiguing CD sound has gone and it has that more natural
SACD/analog sound.


*Ding Dong*........

;-)

Despite years of the Great Arny Krueger trying to convince me "that *all*
CD players the same and *ALL* DACs sound the same and that an external DAC
is a complete "waste" of time I believe I have found something that works
exceptionally well.



Arny's usually got a lot to say about many/most here, but at the end of the
day he's the one who just don't *ever* learn*....!! ;-)