Review request for: Bryston BDP-1 & other DAPs

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General Rants 'n' Raves
Submitted by hollowman on

Bryston BDP-1 is an all-in-one "digital audio player" (DAP). Not sure why Bryston pushes it to be used with their outboard DACs. Given the "rave" reviews other Bryston digital products have rec'd on this and other sites/rags, the subjective and (especially) mertics should be interesting.
Currently, I'm using a semi-portable QLS-350 -- a $200 Chinese WAV-only DAP. I also use the iPhone-like $140 Teclast TL-51 (also from China), which does FLAC, WAV, MP3. (Yeah, it sounds way better than any iPod or Cowon).

new age for audiophiles

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The Universal Pulse
Submitted by tmanwell on

Well...no one has said that this forum *isn't for New Age music, so I'll post my question here:

I'm putting together a sampler CD that, imho, is an 'audiophile showcase' of New Age goodies. IOW, I'm interested in tracks that both sound good AND show off the equipment....

I realize that this is an extremely subjective area, especially as so much of New Age music is generated electronically as opposed to acoustically.

Even so, here are a few that I have slated so far:

Ray Lynch: The Oh of Pleasure
Peter Davison: Turn to dust
Ginkgo Garden: Song from the treetop

Please Recommend. Entry level home theatre system.

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The Entry Level
Submitted by eviltigerpaw on

I already have a HDTV with HDMI and a Denon avr2310ci 7.1 receiver.

All i'm looking for is an entry-level budget Home theater speaker system. It is a small room, and I want to focus on quality over loudness.

My budget is around 800 dollars. What would you recommend. Size is a factor, and I would like the smallest possible speakers.

I looked at the ORBS. are they any good?

Thanks.

SB Touch and Levinson 390S

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Digital Sources
Submitted by cshelton4 on

I have a new Squeezebox Touch that I am feeding into a Levinson 390S, using the coaxial input to access the DAC. The Touch sounds good playing internet radio, streaming with iTunes and WAV files off a USB drive.
However, I have not been able to play any 24/96 files from a USB drive [the front panel on the 390S shows no input]. I have tried 24/96 WAV and FLAC files.

I burned a 24/96 file WAV file onto a CD and played it on the 390S- it sounded terible- very thin and small soundstage.

Listening #96

Listening #96

Dec 20, 2010
When you play recorded music, you have before you a work of art with almost no physical existence at all; reconstituting it requires electricity, which will itself imitate the musical continuum represented by the bumps in the groove or the zeros in the datastream. When you listen to recorded music, you are listening to your household AC, and better AC equals better playback. That sounds obvious to me and you, even as it sends the technocodgers into paroxysms of puritanical indignation.

Book Review: The Cello Suites

Book Review: The Cello Suites

Dec 20, 2010
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece, by Eric Siblin (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009); hardcover, 318 pp. $24.

In his lifetime, J.S. Bach (1685–1750) was an obscure figure. He never lived in a major city, he didn't work in the musical form—opera—that in his era could propel a composer to stardom, and his style seemed antiquated to many. Bach saw a mere nine of his compositions published; when his consummate masterwork, The Art of the Fugue, appeared the year after he died, it sold just 30 copies.

Eric Siblin includes these and countless other facts in The Cello Suites, a book that will fascinate anyone who loves Bach's music. He notes, for instance, that Bach's four musical sons kept his work in circulation, that Mozart was mightily impressed by a motet he heard at a Leipzig church, and that the 12-year-old Beethoven raised some eyebrows when he performed The Well-Tempered Clavier in Vienna.

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