bpwalsh
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| SOS: Andy Bowman - Vintage Tube Services +1 on Andy. It can take him a while to fill your order but he gets it right. A no nonsense kind of guy and doesn't play games with availability and pricing like one well known guy on the west coast seems to. | |
| ARC Phono Ref 2 SE - Dealer Demo Unit Worth Price? If you buy a cartridge from the same dealer, insist on him installing and aligning it accurately, including azimuth adjustment (in my experience almost never level when viewed from the front), and included in the price. If he questions or balks at... | |
| Exogal Comet DAC Milpai, I'll give a tentative yes on bringing music on a USB stick or whatever to play. | |
| Exogal Comet DAC We will have the Exogal Comet on demonstration at the AXPONA show here in Chicago later this month. | |
| High End cartridges and the built quality Not surprising, but disappointing. I see all manner of cartridges in the alignment service I perform, and although one would expect more expensive ones to be built more carefully, which they often are, there is no assurance. A while ago I encounte... | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC A customer with a DS recently borrowed the Bricasti M1 and emailed me almost immediately upon hooking it up, shortly afterward deciding he wants an M1.I suspect upsampling everything to high rate DSD and then downsampling, using filters you have t... | |
| Turntable Setup by Ear? Adjustments done by ear are one thing and OK for an individual, but you can't always catch everything. I do a pretty fair number of setups both for people who purchase analog gear from me and for those who simply find out about the service I provi... | |
| Considering Bricasti and Lampizator The Bricasti M1 has had some upgrades along the way, including DSD64 and DSD128 capability, among other improvements. A realistic evaluation should be done with a current unit. Other reviews, including by publications that reviewed the earlier ver... | |
| Bricasti M1 USB Kodak805, I don't think so, but if it's a concern why don't you call Bricasti and ask? Brian is a straight shooter and will tell you why it's made that way. I haven't noticed any significant heat. The entire design is conservative, and the build q... | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Ricred1, you are reading and worrying too much. Step away from the computer, listen, and relax. :-) | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Jon2020, thanks for the links. I had not seen the Australian review.Bricasti's Brian Zolner and Damon Gramont will be here in Chicago at the AXPONA show in late April, showing in room 422. | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC Ricred1, you may be interested in the recently published review of the Bricasti M1 on Dagogo. | |
| Fozgometer Even more unacceptable when you realize the distributor has raised the price to $300. | |
| Where to find uni din protractor I don't know who 'Mike' is, to whom you refer. Either provide full details or withdraw your accusation and apologize. There's no gray area here given what you have already said.> Well, simply no "smear campaign;"If it walks like a duck and quac... | |
| Where to find uni din protractor I read this thread in its entirety with some trepidation since I use a SMARTractor for setups I do for customers and have exchanged quite a few emails with and have met Kevin Wolff of VANA Ltd., the US distributor of Acoustical Systems. In our int... |