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| The new dCS Varese DAC...it is so good that all others are now relegated to history?? It is a judgement. When I go out and buy what I call expensive equipment, I judge myself. I don't have an audio budget, it all comes out of the common fund which includes wife, daughter, grandaughters. In the review, Michael Framer pronounced the ... | |
| The new dCS Varese DAC...it is so good that all others are now relegated to history?? $250,000. That's a quarter of a million! Should we only decide what to purchase with excess money in the audio world? Wait. Who am I talking to? Who is DCS talking to? If somebody wanted to show me their system and it had a $250,000 digital front ... | |
| Is there usually a dramatic difference between $5k and $10k cartridges ? The big question is can you enjoy your $10K cartridge more than I enjoy my $2K cartridge? I ask because I have never enjoyed a system more than my $100 Sears Silvertone suitcase stereo when I was in college. It must have had a steel stylus. Smoke ... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? jwei, I purchased a VPI Prime Signature 21 and am very happy with it. It’s about $9K with Fatboy Arm, decent isolation feet. Heavy platter and powerful motor. Standard VPI stuff. I don’t think I could justify spending more on a turntable. IMHO VPI... | |
| Thinking of changing things up. Need advice on DAC/Streamers I purchased a Moon 280D DAC/streamer with a slick "Mind 2" user interface. It was the bottom of Moon's line at $4K. At the dealer I compared it to a Linn at more than twice the price and I could not hear the difference. Probably if I'd sat with th... | |
| When to change a cartridge? Thank you. I'll look for it on Quobuz and/or Tidal. I'm testing them one against the other to see which one I want to keep. | |
| When to change a cartridge? whart, 12,000 is a whole heaping lot of records! I can understand why you thinned them out. I have about a tenth that many, and that's a lot. Like most people, I will go back to certain records many times before I play a more obscure record. Some... | |
| When to change a cartridge? ghdprentice, what brand of streamers and DACs would you recommend to compare to analogue? I owned a Moon CD player that was fairly expensive and I did not like it at all. It exaggerated the midrange, sounding pretty good at first. It took me a lit... | |
| When to change a cartridge? whart, I wish I could warm to digital. Perhaps I have not spent enough $ on it. I recently bought the least expensive Moon (280D) streamer with DAC. I compared it against a $9K Linn and hardly heard any difference. When I put on a record (varying... | |
| When to change a cartridge? The guy at Phono Cartridge Retipping, a retipping place suggested by mofimadness, said that he would retip my EMT which has a "super fine line" stylus with a "medium fine line" stylus. He said, however, that the word "super" is subjective and his ... | |
| When to change a cartridge? 301oil, did you send your EMT cartridge back to Switzerland to have it refurbished? My online dealer gives a 20% discount for trade-in. I wonder if that would be just as good a deal, since I don't have to pay shipping both ways. Thanks. | |
| When to change a cartridge? unreceivedogma, I think air versus analytical instrument placement against a black background is one of the major breaks in the audiophile community. I go to live jazz and classical concerts and air is everything. A sax hovering in air, drums poun... | |
| When to change a cartridge? BTW, with this new amp change I am beginning to understand the difference between overly "analytical" systems in which the instruments are well separated, but they lack air. With my Hovland Radia, there is a definite separation between instruments... | |
| When to change a cartridge? whart, yes there are so many variables in improving a system. I inherited my Hovland Radia amp from an audiophile friend of mine who passed away. I was using a McCormack DNA-1 upgraded to the top level by Steve McCormack just a few years before I ... | |
| When to change a cartridge? elliottnewcombjr, thank you for that great diagram. It made the point clearly. |