ajahu
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| best recording for "Blau Danube" Carlos Kleibert and/or Harnoncourt and(or Willy Boskowsky in Vienna. | |
| Is it best to leave gear on or to shut it off? For saving the environment better to turn off. I always do so. | |
| Best sounding CD Player for $3K or less used? Mark Levinson no 39 (as dac and analogue preamp) and a TEAC VRDS cd player (as transport). Very good combination. | |
| Accuphase DP80L/DC81L I had the earlier, DP80 transport. That was one of the best transport I ever heard. None the less, a friend of mine, a D.I.Y guy, checked it once, and proposed to change some of the things inside (i think op amps) as they begun to dry up. After ch... | |
| Why are hi-end active monitors not more popular? Part of the reason that audiophil community does not aware of the benefits of active studio monitors that profirms are offering far less retail margin to their dealers as it is accustomed in the high end retail sector, at least this is my experien... | |
| Quality CD Recorder with Analog inputs,suggestion Korg Mr 1000 is a very nice machine, recording is practically the same as the original source. | |
| Transport mechanism maximum "life". Depending, really, how much you use it. Mine, using the machine daily 5-6 hours, had to replace after 5 years. | |
| Why spend megabucks on a tuner? I have just now replaced an accuphase T-105 with an accuphase T-101, bought for about 350 usd. Wow, what a difference, even on highly compressed pop-stations. One do not have to spend megabucks on FM-tuner, but it is worth to buy a good old analog... | |
| Best bang-for-buck purchase you have made? Philips MFB 545 active speakers for 1200 usd, made in the early eighties. 3 ways speakers, three in-built amplifiers (75 watts, 50 watts, 25 watts) with 12 inch woofers. Lovely full bodied sound of the seventies, with a good dose of dynamism and s... | |
| Speakers placed against back wall Naim speakers also designed to be placed against the wall. | |
| Best sounding LP nobody else has ever heard of... Mercury Living Stereo series, especially I like Dorato conducting Bartók and Kodály. They really deserve attention. | |
| Replace the Supratek Chardonnay with Accuphase? Instead of mixed salad, whose end-taste is really depend on your ability to mix and match the different tastes of each ingredients, you would have a salad dominated by the taste of one major ingredient. Now, an all accuphase system likely would ha... | |
| Firebird Suite LP: the famous Dorati as far as hifi fireworks is the best. | |
| Recommend a method of getting analog into my PC Try to look after Korg rm-1000. It is a 2xdsd hard disk recorder, with analog output and with option to shift recorded sound material with pc to other hard disk(s). Fairly identical record. Only problem, that its 40 gig hd contains max 6 hours 2xd... | |
| Philips VAM1202 Transport Problem- Need some help http://www.daisy-laser.com/ |