@Headdie Hi there haven’t been here in quite a while— I have an old Yamaha c750 dvd-a sacd cd dvd changer that still works fine— had it refurbished BUT no longer have 5.1 system and I use digital out to new Schitt Yggy GS DAC to new Rggy 2 amp to a 2 speaker LEGACY Studio HD monitors- my DVD-A...

hello y'all see my post #25 above I didn't Google the DAC info on those changers I have but if my memory is correct I think all had Burr-Brown chips for certain the Pioneer Elite did and as I said after getting them all 'refreshed' new belts cleaning laser dust and oil removed they all sound...

I would get the Schiit Yggdrasil GS if still available has everything the more expensive new Yggdrasil has(and hundreds$ less) but has analog 1 I bought it with Schiit Ragnarok 2 just the amp---WOW

I have 2 cd changers a 2005 Yamaha c-750 cd/sacd/dvd-a/dvd changer had it 'cleaned' up by a vintage HiFi shop works great the other a Harman/Kardon fl8370 HDCD changer must be from from 1990's or early 2000's had it cleaned up by the same shop and it is great for direct headphone listening to my...

I would add Meridian Explorer 2 to that list and from what I have read the Cobalt doesn't really add much so stick with AQ DFRed I have both ME2 and DFR

@jpnz if you don't like the one you bought try any of Schiit Audio DACs

@Monolaf I have a yamaha c-750 it is a 5 disc changer plays cd/sacd/dvd-a/dvd have had it since 2005 play it through a new Ragnarok 2 which(BTW) is one schiitload of a head phone amp/in its previous life it was a true multichannel connected to an outlaw audio ICBM bass manager to my Yamaha AVR/...

sorry @bdmez my Rggy 2 is 'just the amp' my DAC is Yggdrasil GS not the DAC that is in 'fully loaded' Ragnarok 2- probably 'not as good'(whatever that means when talking about Schiit products) but it's all subjective bobbmd

@bdmez: IMHO(purely subjectionist) that Ragnarok 2 of mine is one SCHIITLOAD of a headphone amp second to none just ask Jerry and the boys they never sounded so clear, separated, black and distinguished(even my archives.org download of their first time ever performed songs '66-'95 all 162 of...

@saddleup YIKES! i wouldn't drive 550 'clicks' for anything including Schiits and those UPS/FED-EX fees even here are exhorberant (SIC) my new YggyGS and Rggy 2 cost almost as much to send to upstate central NY and one of the stops was Walton, Kentucky so i wrote them and said " 'nite John-Boy"...

@saddleup just a question are you near the border and have friends in USA have them buy the Schiit you pick it up or do you have to pay custom fee even if the Schiit is 'used'/

just like my CFO says 'old manitis'/"you never read/listen to anything all the way through" so I LOL great play on words

@johnjen Hey thanks for your perspective also - still playing with all different aspects of those 2 Schiits of mine especially the amp--- is the ROK amp you refer to is that the Schiit Ragnarok or something else and what is MOAR knob is it the stepped volume knob---what i have found is that...

@tincanear thanks that is basically where i have found the volume for the best listening and with the gain at first lowest level thank you bobbmd

@Alexnova @&@grapefarmer: trying to follow all this but am low intellectual Schiithead so to speak(but also high intellectual Deadhead) I have a brand new Yggdrasil GS(in black) and an equally black Ragnarok 2 (just the amp) can y'all simply explain 'gain'. There are 3 levels of gain on the amp...

@Pietro Cozzi Tinin: I agree with YOU-plus not really that great a place to refer patients either and all it takes is an 800# and records-- costs patient a gizzlion$ for travel staying there plus so much testing if you or I did it we would investigated for 'over/needless testing' by cms/bcbs etc...

@golfbravobravo Yes I did it !! made a ROON folder of the files went to 'focus' typed in mp3 grateful dead etc and UP they came and they sound great-- the signal path is poor/low quality ( yellow dot) but is 'upgraded' to gray/blue star and in the 'last rodeo'/system my CFO allowed me to buy...

@quimbo thanks that's exactly where i got my DEAD lists from am going to try @Roy G. Biv's suggestions and also go back to Archive.org and see if i missed something on how to download them to something other than music files like i said i did it for schiits and giggles and some are really POOR...

@Roy G. Biv hey thanks for suggestion will try that-- basically downloaded those 'original first time played' dead songs for 'schiits and giggles' but it is interesting how they sounded 'way back' when... but some are really awful sounding! bobbmd

@ev666il thanks for the reply—i probably didn’t explain this correctly-i have all those dead files and can play them one at a time in ‘FINDER’(they show up as music files one song at a time)i tried to transfer them to first TIDAL as a playlist and then to ROON and A+3.5 but couldn’t— i can’t...

@tafens 'CATS' speaking of cats just got panned by both the WSJ and the NYT and the NYPost(that has to be a first) if any of you have these subscriptions or the actual papers the reviews are hilarious just made for this thread you will LOL bobbmd

@oryan_dunn Hi I used archive to download ALL the dead's first/original songs first performed on stage some were good great or really bad depending on who did the 'boards' BUT I could never transfer them to say Qobuz/TIDAL/even my iTunes library/or to A+3.5 or ROON they just sit in FINDER --do...

where exactly is Mike's thread on this august body of work? I didn't realize he had one also(sometime difficult to get around here)