I have now gone beyond the 300 hour mark on my JVC. Since I've been travelling though, most of those 300 hours have been put on by sending an FM station through at vol 1, so I suspect I may have a some more real warm up time left to go.
I say this because I noticed last night that when I sat sown to listen to a serious source at a real volume level, it sounded good to start with; but got better after the first hour or so. I could have been imagining it; but that's what I perceived. The sound seemed a bit thin at first and gradually seemed to become richer and more complex in ways that better served the music.
A couple of observations on the various input options:
So that I could have my TT hooked up to the DVD-Multi RCA connections, I have my transport going into the digital coax right now.
Although most of you here have found the digital input inferrior, I'm beginning to wonder. If everyone feeding the digital connection is going staight in with their transports, and if perhaps there could be a jitter issue. Many good DACs do try to correct jitter. I'm feeding my CEC TL-2X firstly to a GW Labs jitter corrector, thence to the JVC. With this set-up I find myself being drawn beguilingly into the music, when I had only intended to put on a CD as background while reading. Last night a fascinating book on music by David Toop stayed suspended in one hand for an hour, since I couldn't tear myself away from the music. I've had this happen before using my Fi-X Fi-Y combo; but I didn't expect it through the JVC, especially using the Digital input.
When I go back to my DAC feeding DVD-Multi I may prefer it, I'll have to see.
I'm still trying to get my head round the technical reasons why the DVD-Multi should sound better than plain analogue for two channel. I understand it's meant to skip a decoding stage; but I don't understand why. DVD-Multi is named that way so that you can hook up multiple channels via analogue. As I said before I got a 'free' JVC DVD player with my purcahase and the manual states that that particular player cannot be used via DVD-Multi. This is nonesense because any old analogue connection can go into DVD-Multi. What they must mean is that the DVD player in question, only has stereo outputs and the only way to get multichannel out of it is via the digital output.
Anyway, I found that because I also have a scart input marked DVD-Multi I could plug the DVD player into that, select DVD-Multi and it would play through the magical DVD-Multi setting. So what would happen if I tried playing my TT )which is hooked up to the RCA's which are always DVD-Multi) at the same time? Answer: I hear both the record and the sound from the DVD player at the same time. Weird! I was hoping the JVC would detect an input on one and automatically mute the other.
This has given me a solution for playing everthing through DVD-Multi though. All I've got to do is get a Stereo RCA to Scart cable, run it from my DAC, send all digital sources to the DAC leaving my TT going into the RCA's.
I wonder if this is possible with the US version. On the Euro version any input that;s marked DVD can do DVD-Multi; but none of the others can be allocated to DVD-Multi.
Finally a couple of pages ago Carlman stated that
Comparing say a BC evo2i to a Panasonic XR-45 isn't even a comparison. The BC sounds as many times better as it costs.
That may or may not be true. Richard has spoken about Hi-Fi, Mid-Fi nd and Music and the differences between them. I've heard a lot of 'High-End' systems that do very impressive things, like allow you to hear the champagne glasses tinkling in the background and in that sense be very transparent and revealing; but they don't always make music.
Systems that have made music for me have usually involved Horn speakers and/or SET amps and now this little JVC and the TEAC,
When/if I can afford a Bel canto or similar high-end digital amp, I will put it up against the JVC and I tell ya, it better do a convincing job!!! Especially if the JVC is fully modded.
I think that would be a great idea for a shoot out, if anyone could organise it. Even if I couldn't participate, I'd love to read the results.
BTW does anyone have a recommendation for a good value RCA-Scart cable?
J North
I've just read your post. I've also got the Museatex BiDat with full mods and I suspect it may not be a good match for the JVC. I posted that before and your post makes me even more inclined to believe it. I'm not trying to let the JVC off the hook and you may well find you still prefer your other amp, whatever the DAC; just posting my findings that's all. The JVC is quite rich, full and complex and the BiDat also goes in that direction, in my experience of it. Try just feeding your transport via coaxial in with an anti jitter device between your JVC and transport.
As I say I'm not trying to be an apologiser for the JVC. It could simply be that I'm experiencing a particular set of synergies with my current set up which includes the Horn Shoppe horns.
Thanks
geoff
