MarkSA

Is this still available? PM sent.

Hi Ted, Have received my "Jasonized" PS2 and would appreciate you sending me your guide. A related question - is there any advantage to using a CECHE01 vs. a CECHA01 or do they have exactly the same capability? Thanks, Mark.

Again, I would advise you to consider the KRK Ergo... The improvement given by the Lyngdorf RoomPerfect that it contains will FAR, FAR outweigh any sonic benefit that you will gain by changing DACs. On a scale of 1 to 100, changing DACs may get you to a 20, if you are very lucky. Adding RoomPerfect will consistently get you a 60-70 improvement. By FAR the biggest improvement you can make to your audio system. I have just replaced my ERGO with a used Lyngdorf DPA-1 preamp ($3500) to get the remote and additional inputs and the improved DACs that the DPA-1 provides over the ERGO certainly do make a difference but it is nothing, compared to the difference that switching the RoomPerfect between on and bypass gives to the sound. The ERGO has been moved to my (very inferior) home theater system in ADC -> RoomPerfect -> DAC mode, as well as to integrate a subwoofer to the system and it has made a _radical_ improvement to the sound of the home theater system. Night and day! And that is using an old Sony receiver, an old Kef subwoofer, and pretty beat-up Revel M20 speakers... My main stereo system consists of the Lyngdorf DPA-1 preamp, a Graaf GM-200 tube amp, Wilson Benesch Bishop speakers, a J.A. Michell Orbe turntable with a Wilson Benesch Act 2.0 graphite arm, an Ortofon Jubilee cartridge, and a Whest 0.20 phono preamp. Nordost Blue Heaven cables used throughout. Digital input is direct into the Lyngdorf from the digital output of a Logitech Duet.

You may want to look at the KRK Ergo - it has an internal DAC, RoomPerfect room correction, a volume control, headphone output, sub integration, and will accept two inputs, all for around $400. The only downsides are that the volume is not remote (I use a Logitech Duet to select the music and vary the volume - the room correction improvement easily outweighs this) and you can only have one input plugged in at a time.