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| EMM Labs on Bad Redbook Hi Metralla,Well, there are a number of categories:1. Plain bad sounding CDs (beatles, early pressings of led zepplin, etc.).2. There are a number of bad sounding CDs whose remastering made them sound better which indicates that it was the orignia... | |
| EMM Labs on Bad Redbook VVrinc, VVrinc, VVrinc, ...If we don't sell it, it must be crap.This "blanket statement" would perhaps be a truism, regarding digital, if we ever add the Burmester, Meitner, Ensemble, MBL, Zanden, Weiss, and perhaps the Northstar and Audio Synth... | |
| EMM Labs on Bad Redbook Don't know how well the Meitner does, but I can say that it is not a truism that the better a system gets the worse badly recorded CDs sound. Though I also had this misconception, over the years we have found that, like everything else in this hob... | |
| Vandys 5A Avalon Eidolon Wilson WP7 Aerial 20 All of the speakers mentioned are very nice speakers. All will sound good within a good system. Only a few however have the capacity to sound great within a great system.If you are *not* going to put together a 'great system' for awhile (defined a... | |
| Repair a warped record? I hear ya, 4yanx. We do not have a heckuva lot of warped records either, but Neli wants one of these (they ARE kind of cool).If we do get one we will likely end up flattening warps out of LPs for everybody around here who knows we have one, lol.So... | |
| DACs: Burmester vs. Meitner vs. dcs To the above we might as well add the Zanden and the Audio Note 4.1x Balanced (we carry Audio Note).I agree with mikeL that one can tell quite a bit about equipment at shows, especially in excellent sounding systems (one can hear deep into a syste... | |
| Repair a warped record? Hi 4yanx,Well, you daredevil you, you did actually dare to ask....In todays rapidly changing international audio market, it is as one might expect these days: it is around $1700.00. What really hurts is: now that we know of the flattener's (Disc F... | |
| Repair a warped record? Air Tight is coming out with a record flattener device. Not sure how well it works or anything, but the construction looks top notch and it sure seems like a great idea...Took a picture of it at CES 2004:http://www.audiofederation.com/catalog/show... | |
| An Evening with David Livesay of Wisdom Audio Thanks, Fred!It seems there are several approaches to address the system / room interface issues:1. Using an equalizer such as the Accuphase you mentioned or the Rives. This has the disadvantage of usually having some negative side-effects on the ... | |
| Does anyone use Lamm M1.1's in their system now? Hi Brooksl,I have only heard the Tenor 300 hybrid, in both its prototype incarnation and it recent incarnation, and only at shows. However, based on these experiences and what I know of the design and designers of the two amplifiers, I would say t... | |
| Does anyone use Lamm M1.1's in their system now? SETs are very, very nice for the right speaker and there are a variety of designs (including the LAMM ML2) and tubes to chose from: 6C33C, 300B, 845, 2A3 etc. If your speaker can be driven by a SET the sound is very hard to beat.But if your speake... | |
| Anyone listen to Emmlabs DCC2 plus new transport? We heard them in the Tenor room at CES (the transport was a prototype). Didn't hear enough to determine much except that they were pretty good. Great? Better than the DAC6 / Phillips combo? This I do not know.Perhaps someone else who has access to... | |
| Meitner Dac 6 vs. Theta CCll Extreme Dacs How resolving is the rest of your system? Sometimes the differences between two components can be obscured because they are 'filtered' through the cables and other components and the speakers in the system. Also, switching 'back and forth' only te... | |
| What gets better as you go up in Audio Note DACs? OK, I'll take a stab at this. We only had the 3.1x Balanced for 3 (very looong) days and have had the 4.1x Balanced for two months or so. Have not heard the 2.1x balanced. We have tried them with both the Accustic Arts transport as well as the Aud... | |
| Mark Levinson 33H vs Edge NL10 I agree with most of what was said above, living now with the NL10 a few years and having auditioned the #33 for a few hours, and the #33H for a little bit longer (though that was a long time ago in a galaxy.... well, you know). I owned (and still... |