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  1. Old unit used to use the Vifa as did PMC in some of their speakers. Recent ATC's use a Seas Excel 25mm fabric dome. Synergy is more important than spec.
  2. I am currently using one of the new Twisted Pear Buffalo 2 dac's driving a pair of ATC SCM150ASL's. Its the best the system has ever sounded; have tried various dac's and CD players (Linn Ikemi) including the Benchmark Dac1, the TPA Buf32 was preferable to the Dac1 and was my front end for some time but their new one is a significant step forward. You can use it with the volumite controler to drive the ATC's direct. No loss of resolution using this digital volume control due to ESS 32 bit dac chip. I believe they are working on a proper controller board for the dac to be released soon which should offer IR remote volume, balance etc. Does require a bit of diy but well worth the effort! My 2c
  3. A summary of experimenting with PC as primary source for anyone who is interested.... I have read these forums for some time; encouraged enough by what i read i started to look into using PC as a source. Primary motivation being the convenience of having all my music on a HDD but initial concerns of a quality trade off.. Didn't want to jump in head first with dedicated media pc and high end dac, had a use for a sound card / mic pre for SMAART live use / DRC experiments, decided to try a high qulaity fire interface with decent dac's. After much research and extensive A/B testing at home between of the TC Electronics Studio Konnekt 48 and Steinberg MR816X setteled on the Steinberg. Sound card cost £570, providing digital out from laptop via fire wire and 8 channels of DAC (forgetting the hig quality mic pres and AD). Getting to the point i am very impressed witht the quality of the sound i am achiving with foobar / media monekey asio output to the Steinberg, i have extensively compared to my current front end a Linn Ikemi / Bryston BP25 and 9/10 cant clearly state one is better than the other, ocasionally the Linn / Bryston fractionally improves but its very subtle. I'm impressed. Some pro reviewers are comparing the MR816 with Lavry DA10.. FYI my two playback systems used for testing are: Bryston 4BSST and PMC IB2's and a pair of ATC PA65's, SL bass driver, latest spec Seas tweeter, identical guts to SCM150ASL, soon to be re housed in 150l reflex cabs. I have read much about the effects of digital volume control; recently experimented with MR816 driving both setups direct and throught the BP25, the test didnt last long, sounded better direct to AMP / ATC's at any listening level...i understand the Yamaha hardware used in the MR 816 has software controlled volume so in theory their should be a difference. Out of curiosity i opened up the stienberg and founf it uses the TC Electronics DICE JET chipset for the fire wire interface. Looking forward to building a dedicated media PC and trying it with a high end dac, initally using the firewire / MR816 as the digital out. In summary i can highly reccomend the MR816 as a reasonably priced option for getting your music out of your PC and to your speakers.
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