User Details - AmonRa

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Name:
  Amon Ra
Details:
  Photographer/videographer with audio recording as a hobby and semi-professional sideline
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HiFi:
  OPPO BDP-103 for SACD as transport only
Denon Professional DN-500AV pre-pro for SACD and video, SACD DA-conversion
Tascam CD-200i rack player for CD (does CD-TEXT) as transport only
Crane Song Avocet class A monitor controller and 24/96 DAC for CD and audio/video editing
Genelec 7071A subwoofer
PMC DC-001 mono class-D power amplifiers
PMC IB2s transmission line monitor speakers
ADAM A7 nearfied monitors at editing desk
Heed Canamp
Sennheiser HD800 headphones
Audio Technica ATH-M50 monitoring headphones

For MCH: front channels PMC IB2S, center channel ADAM A8X active monitor, back channels ADAM A7 active monitors. All routed via Genelec 7071A bass management

Audio recording and editing: Sound Devices 722 field recorder, Prism Orpheus 8 channel ADC/DAC, Maselec MMA-4RX 4-channel mic-preamplifier, Pyramix, Reaper and Audition audio workstations for PC, Reaper, Boom Recorder, Wave Editor and Sample Manager for MacBook Pro/Mac Pro, a collection of microphones from Soundfield, Sennheiser, Sanken, DPA, Gefell, Pearl and Audio Technica.
Email:
  amonra.ramona@gmail.com
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Latest Posts

And thanks for all the fish
September 16, 2015
On the SA-CD.net nobody knew I was a dog. ... more
DACs - the core of your system
September 6, 2015
While CD players have improved, they were not crap when they first came out. Audiophiles just lost the endless tweaking possibilities offered by turntables and cartridges, this is what those rags seized. All major classical labels who could afford it switched to digital even before CDs came out. This was for sound quality reasons, not for ... more
DACs - the core of your system
September 6, 2015
I find it both funny and sad that some people actually think ANALOG recording methods were somehow better than even the early digital systems of the eighties. Analog just means TRYING to emulate the vibrations of the air with a wiggly groove on a LP or fluctuating magnetism on a tape, not that it is nowhere near an accurate copy. Far from it. Even ... more
DACs - the core of your system
September 2, 2015
What would be the point of archiving SACDs in DSD256? About that Positive Feedback article on NACAD: they clearly state that DSD can not be edited or manipulated, but apparently Synergistic Research Active Ethernet SE cables are able to do that with their tuning modules, even without first forming a DSD soundstream out of the ethernet packages, ... more
New site up
August 19, 2015
Here is a calculator which tells you the level of the resistor thermal noise at different temperatures, resistor values and bandwidths (bigger bandwidth causes more noise): http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-noise.htm If you believe in quantum physics you'll notice that even the theoretical 24 bit resolution is not reachable in real ... more