Joey_V
Well-known member
Has anyone here heard or experienced this player?
So this one is straight from dealer with full warranty. Retail 25, this price is 16500 which is fantastic. I would love to jump on it... But maybe after the system is up and running for a bit. I want to try another source first.Both are rated very highly for sound quality and I absolutely love the looks of the Emm. When I asked my dealer about Emm labs he said he quit the line because he had issues with every single one he sold. Perhaps he just had bad luck, I don't know. I haven't seen anything else about their reliability, so I take his comment with a grain of salt, but it does put a little doubt in my mind.
, the Playback has a USB input and accommodates higher bitrates and word lengths than the EMM in PCM and will also do DSD. The USB port on the EMM is for firmware updates only, not asynchronous music files.
I thought the USB input on the Playback was a danky OEM thing that maxxed out at 48k?
Adam,
Do you know if that is true (danky OEM thing) or are you just speculating?
Gordon
With all due respect Adam, you throw out conjecture that is disparaging to a product without any knowledge to support your claim.
That's simply not right and is consistent with your apparent "hard line" about the superiority of computer based systems and is also consistent with your apparent bias against any other type of playback delivery.
Before you make these types of degrading remarks, is it asking too much for you to check your facts before posting? Seems like a responsible, reasonable thing to do. Other people should not have to do this for you.
Do the research and if you are wrong, you can tell us that you made a mistake and stand corrected.
Issue closed and now Adam, you stand corrected.
I've heard it a few times and it's well regarded. If I we're spending that kind of dough I'd probably gravitate more towards the Playback Designs MPS-5. Based on some other conversations we had in another thread Joey, the Playback has a USB input and accommodates higher bitrates and word lengths than the EMM in PCM and will also do DSD. The USB port on the EMM is for firmware updates only, not asynchronous music files.
There are so many great DACs out there and the technology is improving at a fast rate. So fast, that for me there isn't much sense in paying a lot of money for one. I think there are plenty of great DACs in the less than 4 or 5 thousand dollar range that come so very, very close to the current "best" and that price could quite possibly be even lower. As we know, as technology advances the lower priced spread sounds as good, if not better than the earlier high priced stuff. If that time period is measured in a few years, it might make sense to buy the expensive gear, but when it comes to DACs the improvements come rather quickly.
I don't really buy this super sound quality lift that is supposedly happening with DACs at an alarming rate.
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