Theta CB III HD in the house (with my ADA Mach IV)! - Page 8

I use my Six Shooter every day for multi channel. For two channel I now use the Trinnov digital volume control and no preamp at all.

Come to think of it, I still have the 6 channel theta remote volume control collecting dust. Although this is supposedly inferior to the six shooter, it may be possible to configure this as a 6 channel switch as well. I believe it has one bypass input, and one volume controlled input. I'll check this evening - may even shoot Theta an email to ask if this would work....

If it can be done, I'm happy to send it to Jeff.

Yes. Those are as comparable to the rest of the high-end prepros I see. Good specs.

It's your proposal. You should do it. Surely you can live without it for a week or two? Love it that much? I have problems with the proposal exactly because I knew it would be difficult to obtain just one and certainly not two. Even it you contrbuted yours or your six channel EVS, that still only covers 6 channels. That's why I would have never suggested such an impractical idea. Both of my Six Shooters have been sold. The money went into my Gen VIII.

Depends on the model. The older ones are 16 bit. Also, i don't believe the other comments apply either to the older product.

Won't work. The multi channel volume control only has one input.

I removed my post to avoid confusion.

There are a ton of Bluray titles listed as 48/24. link

The front page has an article about Dolby moving to 96Khz. link

+1

After having my Gen VIII series 1 upgraded to series 3, I think I know what the problem is here. You are using the External Volume Control that Theta once produced for use with external third party dacs. That volume control is the same as used in the Gen VIII series 1. It's an inferior volume control. Personally, I would not use it. It's degrading the performance of your dac. You mentioned 8 channels of digital out? That would also mean the use of the older volume control. I took a look at the volume cards of the older volume cards. They are a lot different than the current method that Theta uses. I don't believe the controls you are using are in ANY current Theta products. The newer controls sound much better. If you had a Gen VIII series 2 or 3, you would have much improved sound because the volume controls would be so much improved not so much because of the dac change.

Your set-up is actually closer to a guy using a Six Shooter because like that case, your digital to analog conversion and volume control are external. It is closer t to a users comparing his Blu-ray player/Six Shooter to another prepro except the Six Shooter is a better volume control.

Theta does not have a better solution currently, meaning a newer external volume control. That might be a good idea to produce with the new Digi out card. Speaking of the new digi out card, reports there seem to be of significantly better performance. as well. Again, a significant different from what you are doing.

This is the problem with have so many possible platforms and combinations. One guy may have a CBIII upgrade with the, the Bland I and both agree, not so great Superior I cards. Another person may be using a CBIII HD with Xtreme dacs. Another may have a CBIII HD, new digital out card and Gen VIII series 3. Yet another, like yourself is using the older volume control and a CBIII non-HD. None of these scenarios is going to sound the same. In fact,quite different. We want simplicity and to just be able to compare, Theta's processor to say the Intergra, but it's really not that easy to make an accurate generalization that covers the many Theta scenarios.

So when is the big shootout?

Did you at least get listen to it? You got it like a month ago right

Or did the CB3 HD sound better so it went back before anyone else could hear it?

Lmao

Maybe the picture really was Photoshopped!

That's because you are not a real diehard enthusiast.,I would not have been able to sleep until I hooked up the new gear. Even before I had all of the cables, I would have been listening to whatever channels I could hook up. I luv this $hiz! I say,drive your fancy sports car real fast around Detroit, chop down some trees at the new camp, and stop ,"posing," like you are a diehard AV enthusiast.

Just wow.

This has got to be the "trollingest" thread I've ever read on this forum (and I've read quite a few).

What an attempt in "marketing"...
What a megalomania...
What a humiliating fail...

You are a joke!!!

Buckwheat? How old was Buckwhet? What adult chooses Buckwheat for an avatar ? This?! What you have done,borrow a 26k processor for a month and not even hook it up, is a "Buckwheat," move.

So we have a "non-enthusiast" attempting to do critical subjective evaluation on a couple of the most highly-regarded processors on the market?

I feel sorry for the workers at ADA, and Theta, etc., whose livelihood could depend on, and be damaged by, "golden ears" of complete amateurs like us. (This is no different from having *your* professional skills, whatever it is, evaluated by some no-name with possibly questionable motives, and then posted on the internet. Can't stop it, but not exactly right, is it?) The difference is of course I recognize my limitations and didn't create a thread announcing my finding with fanfare.

I don't want to be harsh but honestly, what a joke and no excuse. If you can't even have the enthusiasm to do a quickie 10 minute, 2 channel evaluation, then please don't even think about trying in the future. (I agree completely with Bulldogger: If I ever get a hold of great stuffs like ADA or Meridian, I would have the thing out in my listening room in the first 2 minutes of possession LOL!!!)

How many of us would have taken a day off work just to setup and have the first listen ?

When it comes to audio, the Bland is a joke and a huckster! We've known that for many years. Now you know it, too!

as opposed to everybody else who chooses to be an "audio/videophile" rather than spending time with their families...

Guys,

After all these years of The Bland Bashing us you have to laugh at this. Every person on AVS forum given the chance to listen to a 20K preamp in their system would have had it installed and running within 15 minutes of getting it in their hands.

Maybe ADA wrote him a check for 10K to not do the review

It would be like taking a Toyota Prius and running it up against his Porsche. Both very capable cars and they both get you to work everyday (Well most days with the porsche) but some people would say the Prius wins because of price and overall usability. For the guys that can afford the Porsche, well most of them have Theta Casablanca's. That i can tell you for sure.


Craig

Its not like he only had it for a few days!! I too would have stayed up until whenever to listen/compare.

What a joke! And using "family time" as an excuse!! PLEASE

After all this Thank you for the entertaining thread

-K

I think your friend DougWinsor gave you some photos of the CB3 HD. You never really even had it, did you? This thread was all your pathetic attempt at a somewhat late April Fool's joke!!!@@@

WOOPS! You started the thread on May 2nd!

Folks, whenever The Bland starts an audio type thread, it will be "May Day" at AVS Forum. Run. Hide. Do not bother to read. There is nothing worthwhile there other than laughs.

I'll give you a good example of a true addict's addiction. My other hobby is RC helis. I got two new kits 2 days before my phd defense .... can you guess what I was doing those 2 days :P