big_greg
Responses from big_greg
| Is there any merit to assembling a same stack system to achieve excellent performance? There can be. Things like impedance matching for example should be a non-issue with items from the same manufacturer, and "voicing" should be the same. I had a pretty nice system that consisted of a hodge-podge of brands. It got a lot better when ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I have the LAB 2 and ST 200 also. I haven't listened to them back to back to compare. Might be a fun exercise. I thought they both sounded great when I played them. Both are NM-. | |
| What are you using as a streamer? Constructive feedback please. In my main system I have a Roon Nucleus for the streamer and an Aqua La Voce DAC. I have a TEAC NT-505 in two other systems. It's in your price range. | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Dominique Fils-Aimé - Three Little Words, Qobuz Hi-Res. She came up in one of my Tidal "My Mix" playlists. Check out her Nameless release, some great acapella including a really cool interpretation of Feeling Good. | |
| Merry Christmas to Me.....New tonearm on the way Congrats! Looking forward to hearing your impressions once you have it set up. | |
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report I picked up a few silver discs at Half Price Books today. Listening to a Nat King Cole compilation called The Love Songs. What a voice! | |
| Forum Updates 11/24/2021 First, I'd like to give props to Tammy and team for all your hard work and for being so responsive. I hope that you'll reconsider the way Captcha is currently being deployed. Having to click on pictures every time I post is ridiculous. I will ... | |
| .? Digital Reclocking and syncing clocks does anyone know the correct Answrrsb @jimob Wyred 4 Sound Recovery and MHDT Labs Orchid. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I can see your Roaring Silence avatar Steve. | |
| .? Digital Reclocking and syncing clocks does anyone know the correct Answrrsb I bought a well regarded reclocker and can't detect that it makes any difference whatsoever. Thankfully, it was second hand and relatively inexpensive. | |
| .? Digital Reclocking and syncing clocks does anyone know the correct Answrrsb To big_ Greg. The link you sent is in German which myself don’t know can you translate in and resend ? Thank you . It's actually Dutch. I'm not going to translate it for you, but Google will. | |
| Phono Preamp upgrade I'm not going to make any specific phono recommendations. I'll pile on and encourage you to consider a better turntable/cartridge. Your components need to be of similar quality. Adding a better phono stage would no doubt help with sound qualit... | |
| a remarkably basic question about Roon My interpretation of these results is that a quality dedicated streamer will be far superior to roon A dedicated streamer is just a stripped down computer in a different box. Roon is like a remote control. Its function is to control what gets... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Daft Punk - Random Access Memories I appreciate the efforts to curb spam, but if I have to keep clicking on photo Captchas for every post, I'm out... | |
| .? Digital Reclocking and syncing clocks does anyone know the correct Answrrsb If you're considering adding a word clock, I suggest reading this review. https://hifi.nl/artikel/26685/Review-TEAC-NT-505-DACnetwerkspeler-en-CG-10M-klokgenerator.html I have the components reviewed (TEAC NT-505 and CG-10M) and would not ... |