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- From: caudle@owlnet.rice.edu (Chris Aaron Caudle)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio.high-end
- Subject: Re: Mark Levinson Digital Processor
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:05:43 GMT
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- In article <1j6fvnINN9qt@uwm.edu>, peterh@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (huang peter suway) writes:
- |> I was wondering what the function of a digital processor is and how it is
- |> implemented into an audio system. Is anyone familiar with the Mark
- |> Levinson No. 30 digital processor? Is it worth anything near its price
- |> of $13,950?
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- "Worth" is a relative measure. If I had $100,000 to spend on audio
- equipment, and I had a dedicated listening room/studio, then yes, I
- think that a Levinson No.30 would be worth $13000. I have seen several
- reviews of the No. 30, and every one found almost no flaw in the no. 30.
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- Most of the cost probably comes in in the fact that Levinson (the company,
- not the man) spent five years researching and designing the convertor, it
- has probably the best power supply built for non-instrumentation grade
- equipment, has custom digital filter chips, uses two convertors per channel
- for balanced operation, and is just generally built to impeccable standards.
- "Is it worth it" depends on how fanatical you want to be about having the
- best available equipment.
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- BTW, I haven't auditioned the No. 30 yet, so I offer no comment on it's
- actual sound quality. As an electrical engineering student, I can say that
- electrically and mechanically, it is probably the best designed and built
- digital audio equipment on the market.
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- Chris Caudle
- caudle@owlnet.rice.edu
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