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| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Mitch, Right now I am importing my favorite recordings, so I am using AIFF. I do intend to use ALAC for the more infrequently played music in order to conserve HD space. I think I will try a few wavs tomorrow, since I seem to be on a roll. I'd lik... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners I've been importing music like crazy for the last couple of days (without issue), and have had the ModWright HAPZ1 playing for another 15 -20 hours. I have had some pleasant surprises on a few transfers that sound far superior to the CD. The wonde... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Mitch, no problem. As all of you who have followed this thread from the beginning are aware, I have been favorably impressed with the sonic attributes of the stock HAPZ1. I tend to fall pretty quickly into a super type A north coast laser focused ... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners Nsirkin, I'm interested in your thoughts on the noise level using the external HD. I have an unused 1.5 TB drive sitting around, which I thought I would utilize once the internal drive is full. That may be awhile, since it is now my intention to t... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners It's baaaaack! Week 1 of ModWright HAPZ1 burn in. ~ 20 hours burn in.Summary:Reduction of grain and improved depth of sound stage over stock unit perceived. Improvement in dynamics and resolution to be monitored.Developed an album transfer strateg... | |
| Coincident Linestage vs CJ CT5 or Allnic L-3000 Charles, based on my experience, I'd contact Israel first. As you know, the WE's I got from Grant had issues not expected from tubes in this price range. Israel won't send you anything not up to snuff. | |
| What time do you wear? I have a couple of broken $50 watches around here somewhere. If I want to know what time it is, I pull out my trusty dumbest of all dumb phones and hope the battery hasn't run out yet. The retail value of my entire wardrobe is probably below 2K, i... | |
| Sell quality turntable to buy top CD player? Lew, good points. Back in 83 my $1200 system included not just the source but the whole works, speakers amps and all. I had a $250 tt, a $90 cartridge, and replaced it with a $350 cd player when the tt developed a hum I couldn't fix. I didn't have... | |
| Sell quality turntable to buy top CD player? Dentdog, good comments. You touched on something most of us who have gone all digital think about frequently. If one were starting from scratch (no pun intended) with a 5K budget for a source, would one do better with a vinyl set up or with one of... | |
| Any thoughts on removing a preamp from your system A few thoughts based on my experience, which over the last 25 years has followed a convoluted path, from integrated amp, to no preamp with no volume attenuation, to passive with buffer, to another passive with buffer, to endler resistor based volu... | |
| Sell quality turntable to buy top CD player? A few follow up comments on Lowrider's post. The ModWright Sony 5400 is a very good piece, and is certainly much better than the 840C, which I owned for a couple of years prior to the ModWright 5400. That said, progress in digital gear, whether se... | |
| Sell quality turntable to buy top CD player? SunnyJim, I haven't heard the Ayre or Ayon players, but the ModWright Sony 5400 is much, much better than the stock unit on both Redbook and SACD. If you could find a used ModWright Oppo 105, that, by all accounts, substantially betters both the m... | |
| Sell quality turntable to buy top CD player? For less than $2700, you should be able to pick up a used ModWright Sony 5400 or an MW Oppo 95. My guess is, if you want a cd player, either one of those players is going to be hard to beat in that price range if you can wait for one to come up fo... | |
| Sony HAPZ1 For prospective buyers and owners ERM, Thanks for the info. I tried twice to transfer AIFF files and neither of them went. When the HAPZ1 gets back, I will give it a try again, and if I still can't get it to work, I may send you a pm to dig deeper. I was generally happy with ALAC ... | |
| Resonessence Mirrus vs Sony HAPZ-1ES No experience with the Resonessence. I bought the HAPZ1 in early April, burned it in for 3 weeks and it is now undergoing the ModWright upgrade. In my opinion, the stock HAPZ1 was very good, and yes, the DSD up-sampling stayed on all the time. Dan... |