BigAl87's Home Theater

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by aces high

Just thought you might be interested in the measurements of how much power your amp makes, quite a bit actually.

Are you sure your Totems can handle that power?

Yes they can since they are 8 omhs load, sorry it tok a while to answer i was away in Lac St-Jean

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by bz1080p

HHD & happy 4th Olivier

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Originally Posted by zepherman

TGIF Olivier!

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Originally Posted by bz1080p

Good afternoon Olivier

Originally Posted by bz1080p

Hope all is well Olivier

Originally Posted by sandman922

hope all is well Oliver we haven't heard from you in a while .

Originally Posted by zepherman

Happy Hump Day Olivier!

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Originally Posted by bz1080p

HHD!

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Thanks a bunch guys I am back from vacation, Seth, Bill thanks again for the nice wishes and B E A U tyful pix

Sandman I am cool man I will rock that Bryston tonight

[BigAl87]

Reenabled my HT ratings,

[Almadacr]

Hey Olivier , how are you buddy ?

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by Almadacr

Hey Olivier , how are you buddy ?

Bien et toi Fernando? Did a nice trip in Lac St-Jean it was a fun visit

[Almadacr]

Originally Posted by BigAl87

Bien et toi Fernando? Did a nice trip in Lac St-Jean it was a fun visit

Nice , i'm getting ready for my vacations ( going to Canada Wonderland ) and i hope i can meet John .

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by Almadacr

Nice , i'm getting ready for my vacations ( going to Canada Wonderland ) and i hope i can meet John .

Hehe, As of next week My sister will be in Marineland Niagara Falls. must have been really hot in GTA today.

[Almadacr]

Originally Posted by BigAl87

Hehe, As of next week My sister will be in Marineland Niagara Falls. must have been really hot in GTA today.

In the last 10 years i went to Niagara about 3 times and went once to Marineland when my kid was younger now he only talks about rides and La Ronde

[ldgibson76]

Hello BigAl.

Man, I have a whole series of questions regarding your DAC and it's implementation. But it's been a long day and I'm exhausted. I will post the questions tomorrow. Have a good evening, my friend.

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by ldgibson76

Hello BigAl.

Man, I have a whole series of questions regarding you DAC and it's implementation. But it's been a long day and I'm exhausted. I will post the questions tomorrow. have a good evening, my friend.

You too and get some rest :

[callas01]

hey bud, did you go to a lake? hopefully you got some vag while you were on vaca.

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by callas01

hey bud, did you go to a lake? hopefully you got some vag while you were on vaca.

yup went at around 350 miles from home but did not actually go on the lake, a lot of places with history in that area I went the lake I went to is quite big it's about 21x18 miles so around 400² miles

[ldgibson76]

Hello Oliver.

First off, welcome back from your vacation. Judging from your recent posts, it looks like you had an awesome time.

I do have some questions for you regarding the implementation of the your Arcam rDAC.

Being that you have an HTPC with hi-rez files, how do you have it connected to the rDAC?

Do you also run the HK DVD-48 thru the rDAC?

Have you had the chance to compare the rDAC processing to the AVR-400's?

How does the USB upsampling to 96 kHz compare to sending a high rez signal from the HTPC via optical or coaxial or HDMI to the AVR-400?

Ask all of these questions because I just received my PS Audio Digital Link III. I haven't had a chance to connect it because I'm in NY working! I won't get a chance to see it until late tomorrow evening.

Being that the DLIII's USB stage is not asynchronous, it can only up-sample to 16/48kHz. I was planning on connecting my 1st Gen. Apple TV via USB because it maxes out at 16/44.1 (ALAC) anyway. I've read on several Hi-fi forums that despite of the DL III's lack of a asynchronous USB, it still vastly improves the quality of the signal. I'm also going to experiment with the optical connection of the ATV to see if the DL III's up-sampling to 96 and 192 sounds better than the USB connection. I will connect the HTPC via coaxial. Currently, I'm sending the hi-rez audio via HDMI to the Rotel, which it can detect and accommodate both 96 and 192 kHz signals.

I may even connect my Denon DVD-3930CI to see if there is an improvement over the it's PCM-1796 DAC's.

I also purchased a Pangea USB 4% silver cable and a Pangea Powercord PC-14 along with a 1M pair of AQ King Cobra interconnects. The Pangea cord and cable are entry level products, therefore inexpensive, but better than the Monster Cable USB cable and DL III stock power cord. I will most like upgrade both to the higher models. Audio Advisor's prices are pretty fair.

I know, long post. But I do appreciate your knowledge on the subject.

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by ldgibson76

Hello Oliver.

First off, welcome back from your vacation. Judging from your recent posts, it looks like you had an awesome time.

As you you, I have some questions for you regarding the implementation of the your Arcam rDAC.

Being that you have an HTPC with hi-rez files, how do you have it connected to the rDAC?

Do you also run the HK DVD-48 thru the rDAC?

Have you had the chance to compare the rDAC processing to the AVR-400's?

How does the USB upsampling to 96 kHz compare to sending a high rez signal from the HTPC via optical or coaxial or HDMI to the AVR-400?

Ask all of these questions because I just received my PS Audio Digital Link III. I haven't had a chance to connect it because I'm in NY working! I won't get a chance to see it until late tomorrow evening.

Being that the DLIII's USB stage is not asynchronous, it can only up-sample to 16/48kHz. I was planning on connecting my 1st Gen. Apple TV via USB because it maxes out at 16/44.1 (ALAC) anyway. I've read on several Hi-fi forums that despite of the DL III's lack of a asynchronous USB, it still vastly improves the quality of the signal. I'm also going to experiment with the optical connection of the ATV to see if the DL III's up-sampling to 96 and 192 sounds better than the USB connection. I will connect the HTPC via coaxial. Currently, I'm sending the hi-rez audio via HDMI to the Rotel, which it can detect and accommodate both 96 and 192 kHz signals.

I may even connect my Denon DVD-3930CI to see if there is an improvement over the it's PCM-1796 DAC's.

I also purchased a Pangea USB 4% silver cable and a Pangea Powercord PC-14 along with a 1M pair of AQ King Cobra interconnects. The Pangea cord and cable are entry level products, therefore inexpensive, but better than the Monster Cable USB cable and DL III stock power cord. I will most like upgrade both to the higher models. Audio Advisor's prices are pretty fair.

I know, long post. But I do appreciate your knowledge on the subject.

As for the HTPC, I had it connected 2 different ways, USB and optical, USB was causing a bit of a headache as the rDAC seem to have a problem resuming properly after the computer went on sleep mode, all in all the USB sounded great, no complaints there, as for optical, a lot of audiophile will tell you not to use the optical connection as it has the higest jitter. To remedy to the situation I decided I would connect my DVD48 through Digital coax cable using a good quality cable with a 75 ohms impedance until I get a real music server.

You can read about jitter here.

http://www.stereophile.com/reference/1290jitter/

So far I answered your first 2 questions.

I have not tested the built in DAC on the AVR400 but I am positive it wont be better than the rDAC just looking at the configuration, the dac of the rDAC is better than the one found on the AVR400. I believe the rDAC is not upsampling the signal but that does not mean lower SQ, it actually sounds great as long as the clock is stable with the digital coax. For SQ Digital coax is great if the clock is good and you need a quality 75 ohms cable for that USB is probably the second best for the rDAC because of the async jitter reduction re-clocking circuitry , third would be the optical despite the great jitter reduction of the rDAC.

The best is to experience an you will find out what works best with the DL III dac.

[zepherman]

TGIF Olivier!

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[DangeRuss]

Good Morning "O"

And welcome back

Originally Posted by zepherman

TGIF Olivier!

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I'm on the Job

[bz1080p]

Welcome back Olivier

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[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by zepherman

TGIF Olivier!

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Originally Posted by bz1080p

Welcome back Olivier

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Thanks guys

[ldgibson76]

Hello Oliver.

I have a question for you.....

Are you familiar with this Morrow Audio? They are a audio cable manufacturer, similar to Blue Jeans but caters more to hi-end.

Morrow Audio

The reason I ask is because, they make some interesting claims regarding the performance compared to other high-end makes and obviously, for less money.

[BigAl87]

Originally Posted by ldgibson76

Hello Oliver.

I have a question for you.....

Are you familiar with this Morrow Audio? They are a audio cable manufacturer, similar to Blue Jeans but caters more to hi-end.

Morrow Audio

The reason I ask is because, they make some interesting claims regarding the performance compared to other high-end makes and obviously, for less money.

I do not know them but they do seem to have nice cables, one thing about cables is to try and experience if they work well with your audio equipment, I like to go to my dealer as I get to try several brands and models of cables such as XLO, Audioquest and Nordost, let me tell you I am a fan of Nordost at the moment but I might give a try to the Audioquest Speaker cables.