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You can't necessarily go by that...lots of companies partner up and share a room at audio shows. I"m sure it works....the question is whether what is essentially nothing more than a PC worth 7 large.
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You sound like you need to investigate a Meridian Sooloos System. The Sooloos can import all your 11000 songs with ease (I am up to about 23,000 I think) and pass it digitally to the 808.3 CDP or 861 processor. Then it can pass it digitally onto the speakers if you want to keep it in the digital stream.
The 808.3 can accept up to 6 digital inputs and the 861 way more than that since it is customizable. howie |
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Data de-correlation... this again is nothing new, "logic" has to extract the audio payload found in the USB packet, move the data to a buffer and ship it to the DAC in either SPDIF or hopefully I2S bus. There are three modes of isochonrous transfers that USB Audio Devices have to pick and use: Synchronous, Asynchronous and Adaptive. By design Asynchronous and Adaptive requires the USB DAC to provide it's own clocks, where adaptive just needs one clock. For all three types, audio data is sent in intervals with hopes the data arrives safely and on time. A continuos sequence of 101010101 is a clock in the "digital" world, this is nothing new, everything has this. I assume that their USB DAC is resynchronizing the data to reduce jitter and they just don't know how to state that. Perhaps fluff sells? Every dealer demo with Classe I've done has been been a mix bag, sounds great, but awful to use. When the dealer handed me the remote I quickly got annoyed as each time I changed the track on the CD player, it changed the input source on the pre-amp as well. Dealer couldn't figure out how to fix it either. |
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I own a PWD w/ Bridge and a SSP-800. Granted, the SSP does not do what the CP-800 will do with digital files directly, but I have compared the PWD run directly through the SSP on bypass (without DACs in the loop) and with it using bass management and the PEQ (which engages its DACs) and I think the PWD sounds better on bypass. One of the issues I have with both Classe models is that subwoofers can not be used when the bypass option is used, consequently I have just purchased a dedicated 2-channel preamp (Parasound JC-2) so that I can use my JL Audio subs with my Vivid B-1s. I'll be hooking this up this week. In my room, the subs may not really be needed, but I hate not using the f112s. Chad - let me know if you have more questions about either Classe or the PWD. BTW, Classe says that the CP-800 is their best sounding preamp yet, but I'd expect them to say that since it will be their only 2-channel preamp going forward. |
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