richidoo Wrote: > DUDE~! I am so jealous of you! What a great receiver. Im sure you have > read the reviews in Stereophile last couple of months, column is "In > the Round." He is very favorable as are all the honest reviews of > Denon's big guns. I would hope you would take a minute to report how > you like the sound from an audiophile perspective. Might have to let > 'er break in a bit huh? > > Anyway, I play my SQB through an extremely revealing preamp/amp and > speakers, so I hear every minute tweek. Upgrading the power supply from > the stock unit was the biggest improvement in sound I have heard in my > system for a long time. That includes swapping input tubes to NOS > goodies. It is obvious and very worthwhile. It is cheap for the amount > of improvement. I had a cheapo CDP before, so I was happy the SQB could > sound so great with tweeked PS. If you can build your own, look at my > post from few weeks ago. If you want plug and play, there are a lot of > posts here about upgrade wall warts. You will not be disappointed. > > After PS upgrade, be sure you have good connector to Rx, even if you > are using optical Toslink, get a good one. All digital cables are NOT > the same. Reviews consistently report that upgrade digital cables, > optical or coax sound better than The Shack's. > > I would spend some serious time with new PS and otherwise stock SQB > before you send it off for surgery. You will probably find that it > sounds pretty damn good as is. I have compared mine to $1000 CDPs and > found it in the same ballpark. Adcom 850 DVD player was a little nicer, > but it costs $1000, Quad CDP nice, not as smooth or dynamic as SQB, when > ripped with EAC. Make sure you analyze it with recordings that demand > incredible fidelity and always listen critically to WAV files, not mp3, > flac or any other compressed format. My imagination CAN hear the > difference. I like to use Chicago SYmphony's recording of Holst The > Planets, it has a little of everything. Another good one is Maria > Schneider Concert in the Garden. Very subtle delicate textures > simultaneous to rich power big band chords. Nice music. Great stereo > recording. > > Enjoy your new toy! I might be just behind you in that 4806 line. > Waiting to see how they mod the 5805 to handle new HDMI 1080p stuff. My > speakers can take bi-amped 5805 into 4 ohms. > Rich
FLACs are not lossy compressed. They ARE WAV files with a lossless algorithm. -- mamsterla ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mamsterla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=469 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21333 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
