I'd watch out for the ATV2.  Whilst it can output a digital signal, it seems to do it at 48khz... which is quite infuriating if you're trying to do bit-perfect streams of lossless 44.1khz files.   The Airport Express never behaved like this. Being brutally honest, I can't hear much...

  I smiled very wide at this post.   Many of us, whilst trying to cultivate good taste, have a limited exposure to good audio equipment and have to rely too much on the written word of experts. Unfortunately, the audiophile world is rife with snake-oil salesmen and "Emperor's New Clothes"...

Now I've finally had a chance to do the sound-off between the two systems:  PM75 and Onkyo NR807, which from a DAC point of view makes this a TDA-1541a and Burr Brown PCM1690 comparison.   I'm using an Airport Express to provide a Toslink connection to each amp, streaming a variety of...

Hey Arlekiin,   I don't think that this thing can take a 24bit 48khz signal as such, but it might do various oversampling techniques on the signal. To be honest, I'm not normally a headphone guy, so this probably isn't the right forum for me, but I'm generally down with some of this...

I've got a Marantz PM-75.   I was quite pleased when I picked one up on eBay about 3 years ago. A flashy hi-fi store in the city had one of these as their flagship amp when I was a kid.  The idea of using an optical cable to connect the cd-player to the amp blew me away back in 1990 (when...