Well what Alex? - Ozzie - Hi-Rez Highway

Well what Alex?

Posted by Ozzie (A) on July 3, 2006 at 06:42:42

In Reply to: Well........ posted by Alex Peychev on June 29, 2006 at 20:43:53:

So you would challenge Allen's players with one of your hot rodded 8 K players? I am sure you'll have your day. A couple of quick points. One, his player does not have good, lows, mids or highs. It does not highlight any part of the spectrum. It merely reveals the individual instruments in the music, nothing more, nothing less. It reproduces music without editorializing on the original signal.

Second, how much maximum should the ultimate player cost? The digital portion is but a handful of ICs that altogether should not cost more than 200 bucks. OK, 100. That leaves us with a power supply and an output section. Three transformers for the digital analog and supporting circuitry; 75 to 100 bucks. Throw in the latest over priced silver wire which really would not make any real difference to this circuitry, but it just might impress your audio geek friends; 1000 bucks. A hand full of diodes, caps and maybe we might even choose to eliminate the need for an overpriced power cord and go with some inductors on the input; 250 bucks. That leaves us with the analog output. A hand full of transistors, resistors, caps...; 150 bucks. Now tie the analog circuitry to the latest cool guy RCA outputs. Silver wire + outputs; 200 bucks.

I just can not for the life of me grasp why any digital player out there should cost more than say 5K. As far as someone like yourself taking an 8 K player and having to mod it, especially at your lofty prices... the manufacturer should be publicly humiliated for not including every concievable qwuality component in the first place. Anyone paying 15 thousand is either a por athelete, .com millionaire or a trust fund baby. This because anybody who had really earned it themselves will not be so easily separated from their money. Very few MDs that I know, and I know many, would actually purchase such a player.

Tell you what Alex, if you ever mod a player for someone in the DFW Metroplex, and can deliver said player, finished in a reasonable period of time to the potential purchaser... say less than 6 months, you are on.

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Topic - Player mod options ... tube or transformer outputs? - Thom 19:24:47 06/26/06 (16)

thanks all, interesting read :) ... nt - Thom 19:10:24 06/30/06 (0)

Thom, save your money and - Ozzie 15:19:15 06/28/06 (2)

Well........ - Alex Peychev 20:43:53 06/29/06 (1)

Well what Alex? - Ozzie 06:42:42 07/03/06 (0)

Re: Player mod options ... tube or transformer outputs? - Retsel 13:15:00 06/27/06 (8)

Re: Player mod options ... Sowter Transformers - MikeWI 09:25:37 06/28/06 (7)

I am very happy with Sowter transformers... - Allen Wright 10:46:07 06/28/06 (6)

Re: transformer outputs... - Retsel 11:43:39 06/28/06 (5)

Clock Upgrades - MikeWI 14:22:54 06/28/06 (4)

The nature of the clock generation in my player... - Allen Wright 00:02:43 06/29/06 (3)

Re: The nature of the clock generation in my player... - MikeWI 13:05:06 06/29/06 (2)

Re: The nature of the clock generation in my player... - Joe Rasmussen 07:35:35 07/05/06 (1)

Re: The nature of the clock generation in my player... - Christine Tham 17:07:25 07/05/06 (0)

Re: Player mod options ... tube or transformer outputs? - Dave Garretson 03:28:16 06/27/06 (0)

Neither... - Allen Wright 02:06:12 06/27/06 (0)

Tubes+transformer output. :)...........nt - Alex Peychev 00:41:54 06/27/06 (0)

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Well what Alex? - Ozzie 06:42:42 07/03/06 (0)

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