Millercarbon I know this is more expensive, but the Walker Talisman for CDs and LPs is much easier and faster to use than a demagnitizer. $200 but saves so much time and effort. Time is both money and there's too little of it.
I’m gob smacked. What were you’re aha moments?
Had a productive couple of weeks on the used gear market and today has been digital demo day (Analog arrives next week). Added a Bryston BCD-3 and original Tara Labs Prime I/C’s to my system at very good prices.
I don’t have “golden ears” by any stretch but I’m gob smacked at the results.
The BCD-3 is replacing an Oppo UDP-205 w/ DHL BL-1 I/C’s. Rest of gear is an Anthem STR integrated and ML Monti’s. My bass has easily doubled, maybe tripled. I can feel the pressurization in my room and it’s tight not bloated.
I think this has been the biggest jump up in SQ I’ve experienced. What were your biggest surprises/improvements regardless of budget?
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Spending my university scholarship money in 1970 on an all-AR system: turntable, integrated amp and AR-3A’s. Blew me away and was the best system in my dorm, by far. Helped inspire further crazy spending by friends over the next few years leading to a great setup loved by us all: Thorens turntable, Crown preamp, Crown DC-300’s and bi-amped RTR speakers: many memorable parties in ‘73 - ‘75! Then, while living in the UK, Musical Fidelity class-A amp and speakers in late 80’s. Purchasing an Ohm Acoustics MicroWalsh home theater setup in 2004 and then enjoying the “Concert for George” DVD - knocked out everyone who saw and heard it. Now, using a Crown Audio XLS 1502 to power my Ohm’s (instead of the Denon AVR) - a revelation in openness, effortlessness and bass taughtness and extension. |
mg16"Infinity QA speakers with emit ribbon tweeters." You are confused, disoriented, and distracted or ignorant, misinformed, and incompetent because the EMIT transducer as designed, manufactured, and applied by Infinity Systems is not a ribbon transducer by any standard, definition, or reference. |
First musical gobsmacked moment was hearing Pink Floyd live. WOW! I'd no idea music could sound like that. Second we hearing a true audiophile system at a shop in Apeldoorn. They had a Musical Fidelity separates with something from B&W. They had to kick me out of the shop cause I wouldn't stop listening. Just switched from Tidal to Qobuz and set up Roon - I've been in an constant state of gobsmacked-ness over all of it. Like a kid in a candy shop. :) I'm also gobsmacked that autocorrect is correcting this correctly :) |
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