In Reply to: REVIEW: Enlightened Audio Designs OVATION Preamplifier (HT) Review by Miguel Avila at Audio Asylum posted by Miguel Avila on October 6, 1999 at 09:23:27:
Great review. Just a couple of things:1.EAD converts analog signal to digital on the inputs (using high quality A/D converters though) and then converts it back to analog. You may consider it weakness or may not depending on whether you are running analog sources or not and to what degree you are fanatic about purity of analog signal.
2.Some of the owners experienced a problems with a random loud pops when playing DVDs.(check the link to encore users list below). I had them as well. On the other hand after EAD upgraded a software, all problems are gone and unit works great. If you are planning to buy one, make sure that it got latest software.
3. Just to clear things about software upgrades. Even if they will have an upgrade to DVD audio format it couldn't be just software. Now Ovation uses 20-bit D/A converters. So it will be hardware upgrade and it's gonna cost you… But again nobody knows what format we will end up with.
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