blues_man
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| Is Audio Research PH3 phono the best for today's price? You can get great tubes for $50 - $60 each from eiher Upscale Audio or Vintage Tube. I use Mullards. I would only buy tubes from a respected dealer or with some sort of documentation. | |
| Mo Fi box sets To follow up on the 2 sealed Beatles MoFi box sets that the dealer had: They were bought by several foreign collectors. They went for $500 each. They got an additional 10% off for spending over $5000. They totally cleaned the store out of any good... | |
| How many of you have heard the Tenor Audio amps? The ML goes from 5 ohm to 0.9. It's really steep. It's also not very sensitive. If they won't drive well, I don't want the dealer to get them in and waste our time. | |
| Is Audio Research PH3 phono the best for today's price? With good tubes, probably 4 to 5 yeras. | |
| Is Audio Research PH3 phono the best for today's price? It depends on what you want. I had a PH3 loved it. Being tube based (Not all tube) it had some noise, but it was very minimal. Great detail, if you find a used PH3SE for $400 - $500 more, it's worth the upgrade. I now have an ARC Ref Phono, it's n... | |
| Redbooks: as good on Sony SACD as on Cary 303? There have been some improvements in hardware, but mostly hardware has become cheaper not better. I still think that the HDCD system is the best and should be used by all manufacturers for CDs. Digital filters are getting better. They couldn't get... | |
| New Transport Approach This would be one of the easiest things to pirate, and maybe that's why the CD mechanism was set up that way 20 years ago. I'm sure you can already do this now though with regular CDs. When the music industry decided on digital, they probably figu... | |
| Redbooks: as good on Sony SACD as on Cary 303? People get caught in the hype. That's spelled BS. You're right. The upsampling vs oversampling vs this chip vs that chip is all marketing crap trying to get people to blow their money on different products and then spending absurd money on the sof... | |
| New Transport Approach These methods are not new. They've just not been done with CDs. Two of my systems used this. One allowed you to preview CDs in the store and had tens of thousands of songs. Sampling was at 32kHz if I recall. Another system was used by a Jazz magaz... | |
| New Transport Approach Unfortunately Merridian has simply spewed some vague marketing terms. On more than one occasion I have found what I believed to be intentional misleading information. The worst was about "true" 24 bit machines. But not to stray here. What they've ... | |
| How many of you have heard the Tenor Audio amps? Has anyone ever tried them with Electrostatics like Martin Logan Odysey? It has a rather steep impedance curve which may not work well with an SE OTL amp. | |
| Burned CDs can sound better than the original? The work it would take to do a single copy isn't worth the effort. You really do need the source tapes to do this. | |
| Burned CDs can sound better than the original? Everything you mentioned could happen in a burned CD also. I'm open to the possibility, but I want to do tests both on audibilty and measured differences in the data stream. Then I'll be willing to agree that the burned CDs may be better. | |
| help jitter, toslink, and DVD question The advantage of the optical connection is that you don't get electrical noise through the cable. I have a Toshiba DVD and have compared the outputs, the coax gives you much better sound. The transport though is not very good whwn compared to a go... | |
| Is the quality of the AC in canada is better than USA ? To really check your power, you need a high quality poer analyzer. These are expensive $10k-15k, But you can often rent one for a day at a cost of about $60-75. Make sure it has been recently callibrated. The power monitor will produce a graphic r... |