@bruce19, I can’t tell you how many times when I went crate digging I specifically looked for Rudy Van Gelder’s work. I’d say about half my album collection is from Verve, Riverside, CTI, KUDU and other Rudy Van Gelder produced vinyl.
It’s so interesting and funny you should mention this about the cd/album ’syndrome’. How many times over the years have we and others been through the selling of our albums when cd’s came out. Or even vice versa, some years ago too.
Not to mention some few years ago young(er) folks started getting into albums and buying turntables! And all of a sudden the album was back!
Now I think the reason cd’s are back in vogue is because of two things. High quality separate low priced streamers, and high quality separate low priced cd transports and dacs. And even though it’s in digital form, those mediums can be effortlessly connected to any analog rig.
Check out this post I made a fews weeks ago.
tyray
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@hbarrel, yeah I don’t care about DSD cd’s (SACD) either. I’m just a used cd crate digger and could care less about an uber priced cd. I’ve got thousands of cd’s boxed up as I’ve been a phono head for some years now and like so many of us did some years ago sold our cd’s or albums, I did not, I held on to them.
I’m really curious to see the Laiv streamer when it comes out too.
Here’s correspondence I got from Soon from Laiv about the Laiv pinout mode intelligent auto-configuration and passed the specs on to Brad:
Dear Tyray,
Good Day!
You can use Laiv mode for the I2S connection with the Shanling ET3 transport. We have many customers using the Shanling ET3 transport with our Laiv Harmony DAC via I2S and getting great results.
Nice right up @bruce19