Jan

In Germany there is a well respected diy concept called Pico Line http://www.hobbyhifi.de/Archiv/07/05_07/05_07.html. It is an advanced "Lense". Better in bass. Cost per pair some 200$. Get someone to build the enclosure (maybe 300$) and you will be better of. Thats 1200$ profit for 47labs. Not bad. I run a pair on the ceiling of my bedroom, with my head in the sweetspot. Foottaping a bit difficult, but wonderful listening. Cheers Jan

I tried quite a few. Some of those really sounded. But would I really buy an amplifier that sounds? The biggest advantage of a car amplifier is the PSU. Its a batterie capable of delivering up to 1000+ Ampere. Show me a PSU that is delivering that much power. The secound is that good car amps are mono. So I have 4 amps. 2 for mids and highs(pasive crossover 6dB at 5000Hz) rated 100w, +-3dB 25-100000Hz. And there is lots more for the woofer. But this is not the point. Ether it sounds right, that is natural, or wrong, that is harsh, soft, colored. So amplifier sound? Hopefully not. PS: Power does not translate into "speed"( could it be headroom) just into max output. Cheers Jan

I am following this forum for about 16 weeks, some topics are fun some informativ. But always better than what my wife watches on TV. For a long time, the closest to audiophile I could get was caraudio. I could drive the 50m to the beach and enjoy music, without disturbing anyone. Then I moved into the house construced and build my speakers driven by car amps. I never had any problems with sound. If I compare my father siting in the room playing his Ovation or a recording of him, it sounds alike. The only way, it may be different is the image and the dynamics. Lets talk about image. The best I experienced was Grieg; Per Gynt; Sir Thomas Beecham, played on a Burmester system. There was the orchestra playing 5 to 6m infront of me, well expanding into the next room. Than Brigitte Nielson appears 2m infront of the orchestra singing just wonderfull. This is what I am after. And now dynamics. I dont mean loud. If you are looking for that, go to a car audio show. I mean something like Huge Masekela; Hope, Stimela. Even if you know the cry is coming you have to be scared,surpriced by it. This has more to do whith speed, as if you could hear a squarewave to be square. To me audiophil is more that sound. And it is defintely more than headphons (if you dont listen to dummy head recordings). By the way, I hate backgroundmusik. If i want to meet Carlos Santana, I will listen to Havana Moon. And if I read your coments, I dont want to hear anything. I hope you will tell me(us) what sound is for you Jan

Yes. For Windows it works great. No driver issues. Stable for a beta. But what I would like to read in this forum is the audio features. Cheers Jan

I just saw Windows 7 at a freinds place. Did somebody try it yet?

Hi, the green I smoke is superskunk, everything alright with that To be serious I had the great pleasure to hear some of the best audio equipment one can imagine. Burmesters big transport dac combination is incredible. Close your eyes and you can focus separate singers in the chorus. But there is something missing. The shock when you hear the cry in “Stimela” on Masekela “Hope” for the fist time on a Phonosophie Impuls 3. But time are changing. Computer based audio is much more satisfactory. Just no one ever bothered to build a real audiophile audiocard. I mean, clean power, separate supply for digital and analogue, high end analogue output ect. And this is what is missing to give computer audio a push. When I start, I buy a soundcard that is just a bit inferior to a dac. When I find I need more, I invest 300 $ in a power supply and some 500 in the analogue part and have the value of a 3000$ dac. No digital senders and receivers needed. Intriguing idea ? And always remember, it is about music. You have to hear Beecham perform Peer Gynt. Or Ella and Louis love songs. … Cheers Jan

Hi there, my cd-transport just broke down. So get a computer. Rip your cds. Prefect world. Maybe some high bit downloads and some lp-recording. On top I love the idea of just one machine standing on top of the amplifiers. So I decided it has to be a soundcard. It will be a Juli@. It should beat my parasound dac by quite a bit. But. The weakness of soundcards is the power source. Power from pci has to be very polluted. And it has to be not enough. The high end DACs , I know and tried all had multiple and big power supplies. Would it be possible to build a cable pci-risercard with separate input for a second power supply. Cheers Jan