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| What steps forward were actually steps backward? Sold my Mcintosh MA6900 to "upgrade" to the more "audiophile" route. It was an interesting detour but I came back to the Mcintosh and eventually upgraded to tube Mcintosh separates. Just so damn musical. I got annoyed at losing money, but the expe... | |
| Source for JVC XRCD What are some favorite XRCDs? | |
| Source for JVC XRCD Check out Elusive Disc. I don't know how extensive their offerings are, but they have a lot. | |
| Dilemma: LP or SACD? Try analog only to give up? You guys aren't much help! I want clear black and white answers. I'm only kidding : ) Actually, this is what I was looking for; personal thoughts and opinions from experience. I keep going back and forth. I don't know that SACD is the answer becau... | |
| Which of these turntables for a new kid in town? Thanks for all of the input. This is an interesting endeavor for me. Turntables seem much more mechanical than other components and I'm looking forward to learning more about them. I have not decided on anything yet, but I'm leaning towards the VP... | |
| Couple of questions on the Merlin VSM speakers... 2.1x balanced | |
| Couple of questions on the Merlin VSM speakers... Thanks guys (or gals). My wife reminded me as she heard me speaking to a local dealer that i had promised not to upgrade anything else in my main system until my bday in October. She is very much against consumerism and our disposable society and ... | |
| Too Bright Big Blue Meters : Re: McIntosh MA6900 I always thought they were a deeper blue too but they seem to be more of a greenish color now. My Mcintosh amp and preamp have switches to turn off the meters. i don't remember if the MA6900 has that feature. You could always unscrew the bulbs, bu... | |
| EMC-1 Owners Spider Alert I may be interested. Exactly how does the spider work, meaning how do you insert a disc? Same as before? | |
| Tube Preamps with Bass? Mcintosh C2200 | |
| need headphone amp recommendations Swing up for a Ray Samuels Audio XP-7 without the power supply (use batteries). Check out Head-fi.org. | |
| Audio Logic tube DAC vs Wavelength tube DAC? The WA Cosine DAC is great. I have it in a headphone system and it is very smooth and natural sounding. I can't tell I'm listening to headphones except for the obvious compression on my head. It may not be as dynamic as the AN DACs, but I have not... | |
| 1x Oversampling Dmitrydr has a point. It's not solely the zero sampling that makes the AN DACs and others sing. It also must be the use of vacuum tubes and transformers plus overall system design. I've heard it said that the transformer-based AN DACs are uniforma... | |
| 1x Oversampling The sound is open, 3-dimensional, dynamic, natural, smooth, engaging. I have an AN 2.1x balanced DAC (also a Wavelength Audio Cosine DAC in my headphone system, uses the same concept). Best digital I've ever heard. Nothing I don't like except perh... | |
| I want digital audio Rsbeck, I just did exactly what you have set up, but it's not working as I intended. The iBook I'm using is one I had laying around and the hard drive is only 20 GB total. I purchased a large external hard drive to store the music files (around 40... |