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items: Too Many Choices
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Too Many Choices
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description: Does anybody remember the good old days when your only selection was between 33 or 45 rpm? Or when you placed a CD in the player and pressed "play"? My Soekris R2R ladder dac offers the choice of four user selectable filters: linear phase, linear/minimum phase mix, minimum phase, and soft minimum phase. It will accept a 16, 20, or 24 bit input signal at either 48, 96, or 192khz. The Cambridge Audio CD player I'm using as a transport offers a choice of straight through 16/48 or upsampling to any of the bit rates and frequencies the dac is capable of processing, plus a choice of dithering or no dithering. I'm dithering about which of the above to select, but it all sounds good.
creator: AudioFred
date: 2019-02-02T16:51:56-00:00

Re: Too Many Choices
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description: Yes, there are definitely too many choices. Sadly, I can't even hear the difference between the options much of the time, which makes me paranoid that my hearing is going bad. The exception is dithering. I usually fall into the no dithering category.
creator: musicluvr
date: 2019-02-02T17:03:02-00:00

Re: Too Many Choices
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description: Hi Fred, Don't you mean 16/44 not 16/48. 48 is midi and 44 is cd?
creator: gofar99
date: 2019-02-03T02:55:45-00:00

Re: Too Many Choices
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description: gofar99 wrote on Sat, 02 February 2019 20:55 Hi Fred, Don't you mean 16/44 not 16/48. 48 is midi and 44 is cd? Yes, it's 16/44.
creator: AudioFred
date: 2019-02-03T22:34:52-00:00

Re: Too Many Choices
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description: hi Fred I thought so. Why not just give in and get a used "Walkman" and skip the new stuff?
creator: gofar99
date: 2019-02-05T02:29:21-00:00

Re: Too Many Choices
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description: gofar99 wrote on Mon, 04 February 2019 20:29 hi Fred I thought so. Why not just give in and get a used "Walkman" and skip the new stuff? Or I could really go obsolete and replace the solid state amp with a tube amp.
creator: AudioFred
date: 2019-02-05T22:49:46-00:00

Re: Too Many Choices
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description: Not too many choices from my rig. 33 and a third with an occasional 45. The choices being what platters to spin. Pushed through some bottles.
creator: Rusty
date: 2019-02-07T17:18:33-00:00