Up for sale is a Benchmark DAC1 Pre. This is the unit with USB and an analog input, but no remote control. Unit is in excellent condition, 9/10. I am the original owner, I purchased the unit new in 2009 and have been using it in my...
Jim Anderson does great work, much of it for major labels. He works almost entirely with jazz artists tho, whose recordings generally haven't suffered from the loudness wars as much as pop albums have. Jim was just made president of the...
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Originally Posted by Scrith
I think a much easier approach to this jitter problem (rather than resampling to work around it) would be to create a buffer (perhaps 1 second worth of audio at the current playback...
I can't speak for the SA8001, but I got an SA8003 in for review earlier this week. At some point I'll schlep it over to my Benchmark-owning friend's house for a comparison, assuming he'll have me.
So far the unit sounds quite nice,...
Jim Austin compared the SA8001 to the Benchmark in Stereophile last October:
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To my ears, the SA8001 (in "Red Book" mode) was every bit the equal of the Benchmark DAC-1 (using the SA8001 as a transport) ......
Much depends on what headphones you are using. I compared The CD5001 headphone output to my Gilmore Lite...with Sennheisers HD-580s (high impedance, voltage hungry), they were about equal. With Grados (low impedance, current hungry),...
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Just by using the words "To test whether the sound improves upon that of a belt-drive unit" as opposed to "a Thorens TD125II" surely he is making exactly such a...
