Anyone else feel like it’s the Wild Wild West?

Sure vinyl is simple but good to great vinyl requires a lot of parts too and that isn’t inexpensive. No it ain’t! We all know that list and what the ensuring costs are.(And what’s Beethoven’s fifth with out the ticks and pops?)

Great digital can be had “reasonably.” For $2200 on up you can get a used Lumin T2 or Mytek Brooklyn Bridge Network both with very good inboard DAC’s and the ability to connect directly to an amp with no pre amp needed. Compared to a vinyl rig or upper CD/SCAD this is far far cheaper. To tweak it up, linear power supplies and ethernet filleting can be used (and Bam!) but this is assuming all the rest such as your room, amp and pre or integrated, connects, power cleaned, speakers and the whole schmear is stellar. Digital steaming equaling vinyl costs less too. And yes Virginia, CD’s are digital just delivered on a player.

Vinyl does give one more exercise as you have to get off your duff a lot more.

There are also some all in one solutions like the Naim Uniti boxes that are good.

@ghdprentice Yes Digital into tubes. Right on brother!

It’s all about choices!

 

You Go To Your Church

You go to your church and I’ll go to mine
But let’s walk along together
Our fathers built them side by side
So let’s walk along together

The road is rough and the way is long
But we’ll help each other over
You go to your church and I’ll go to mine
But let’s walk along together

You go to your church and I’ll go to mine
But let’s walk along together
Our Heavenly Father is the same
So let’s walk along together

The Lord will be at your church today
But he’ll be at my church also
You go to your church and I’ll go to mine
But let’s walk along together

by Phillips H. Lord

 

Please don’t talk about me when I’m gone

Please don’t talk about me when I’m gone

Oh honey, though our friendship ceases from now on

And listen, if you can’t say anything real nice

It’s better not to talk at all is my advice

 

We’re parting, you go your way I’ll go mine

It’s best that we do

Here’s a kiss I hope that this brings lots of luck to you

Oh makes no difference how I carry on

Remember, please don’t talk about me when I’m gone

 

We’re parting, you go your way I’ll go mine

It’s best that we do

Here’s a kiss I hope that this brings lots of luck to you

Makes no difference how I carry on

Remember, please don’t talk about me

Please don’t talk about me

Please don’t talk about me when I’m gone

 

by Sidney Clare

 

 

 

@mapman bees knees! Copacetic daddy-oh. Made me smile.

You are right that many of the tweaks can be expensive and have incremental gains or ersatz ones. Non the less, I’ve found that taken all toughener it’s audible (how can blacker be audible?) for me. And many many many audiophiles love to tinker. I do. This forum is a gateway to getting equipment. N’est-ce pas, mes amis? Every thing counds better in french. The word for digital is numérique. Numérique. Oh lah lah.

Noise isn’t your systems friend be it from power or signal. Nothing wrong with going after it. For me the EtherREGEN was a stunner. Did I need the linear power, clock and fancy cables for it? Do cell phones need signal bars?