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Zurv, once you have received your balanced cable may I get you impressions on se vs balanced with the hd800 and ha1.
fine!!!
.. first this site makes my buy the ha-1 and now.. i guess it is balanced cable time. Honestly, up till now a lot of this dac stuff was a bit of the emperor's new clothes. I've spent $1000s and $1000s ... and he was still looking pretty naked
yes, stuff in the past was better than not using a DAC. but no way close to the 1000s i spent (well.. still isn't.. that is a lot of money) yes it was a little cleaner but not a big jump. The Oppo should be in the same class (but better) as was what i used before (the audiolab M-Dac and fostex HA8.) But damn the oppo is good
So i ordered up the official balanced cable for the HD800 Hopefully they have an impact (damn they cost a lot just for a cable)
Now to find more hi res music. Sadly much of it, say opera, has new high res versions, but the performances themselves isn't as good as the older ones I wasted $50 on Cosi fan tutti yesterday from HDtracks - yeah.. high quality but.. not very good singers
Which Cable did you order ??
Doesn't the Home Theater Bypass take care of that for you?
Has anyone tried the HA-1 remote control on your PC? You have to be using a USB source but it controls the basic play controls! I thought I had ghosts in the house the first time I pressed the pause button just for kicks and the audio stream paused.It's all on page 16 in the manual but I found that out after it happened a few times.
Something else I tried. I hooked up my Mjolnir amp to the xlr pre outs of the HA-1 and tried the Home Theater bypass mode. Sounded great but I still prefer the "Standard" mode with variable volume control. I set the Mjolnir's volume control at around 11:00 oclock and used the HA-1 to control volume. I'm lazy and prefer to remotely control the system. That's why I went with the HA-1 in the first place. The MJ was a good pairing with the Sabre dac. Very resolving and musical but so is the HA-1 on it's own.
The remote works with VLC on a Mac. Just tried it.
Audirvana, too.