charles1dad
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| Why Does All Jazz Sound The Same? Hi @kijanki, Got It!😂. Honestly it's hard to tell sometimes when communication is limited to text and in addition knowing that in reality 'some' would actually feel /believe that in regard to jazz.Charles | |
| Why Does All Jazz Sound The Same? @kijanki, I don't know if your comment is tongue in cheek or not. If your serious see my post above. Those musicians sound nothing alike playing the same songs. Very different approaches and improvisations. Probably you are posting in the same spi... | |
| Why Does All Jazz Sound The Same? @snackeyp, I'm not sure what you're listening to. Listen to the following small sample.Piano, Theloneus Monk vs Oscar Peterson.Guitar, Wes Montgomery vs Jim Hall.Trumpet, Clfford Brown vs Chet Baker. Alto saxophone, Paul Desmond vs Charlie Pa... | |
| Got a Node 2i, what's next? @midareff, Nice observation. Particularly, 'It’s easy.. do cheap bottom tier digital and you get cheap bottom tier digital sound. No surprises there.'Charles | |
| Upgrade entry level or start over? @goofyfoot,Agree with your example, reasoning and math. I’ve heard many examples of both very good sounding analogue and digital based systems (I'm not into the tiresome analogue versus digital battles). Analogue IMO has a higher cost point of ... | |
| Upgrade entry level or start over? Good variety of worthwhile upgrade suggestions. Any one of them would result in sound quality improvement. I believe that a better quality phono stage is a very good move. As I think it is the "weakest link" bottleneck item in this audio system. ... | |
| Mirage M1 with SET amplifier @donpen21, I own a 300b SET and understand your interest. No doubt the Tamura output transformer is very high quality. I have to agree with other posters here that this is Not a particularly good pairing. To drive an 83 db sensitivity speaker is a... | |
| Thiel Owners @dsper, In regard to the fuse you were recommended, flip the fuse in the other direction and compare. Usually one direction/position of the fuse will sound noticeably better than the other. A simple step but folks have noted the difference. Some... | |
| Does a Tube Dac make sense? @jjss49 and mahgister, thank you and I appreciate your gracious comments. @dletch2, You are correct, it is not the 1970-1980s. Science and technology have advanced significantly since then. Yet discovery and rigorous research continue to reveal ev... | |
| Does a Tube Dac make sense? Understood,Some listeners will say they can not hear a difference, with the same DACs other listeners can easily perceive sonic differences. This shouldn’t be surprising as a fairly wide spectrum exists as to what people are able to detect and dis... | |
| Does a Tube Dac make sense? @melvinjones,Precisely! There's no neutral audio device. If a tube is a so called "tone control" so is a transistor. Just different versions of distortion. The idea that solid state is the default neutral choice is not logical. Listen to a half d... | |
| Does a Tube Dac make sense? @stibin, You can have an all tube audio signal path or an all transitor audio signal path and be happy with either. Just depends on what type of sonic presentation you are seeking. Within the realm of tubes there’s very noticeable variation in wha... | |
| Does a Tube Dac make sense? Hi @stibin, You wrote,I have the Musical Paradise MP701 mkII and it does have significant sound improvement on my system. That just confirms my position that tube DACs can sound terrific. If you decide to move on from a tube DAC you'll be able to ... | |
| Does a Tube Dac make sense? This is why when discussing an audio product the final arbiter is "how does it sound" and do I like it. Tube colorations? Sure, either that or one may prefer transistor coloration. Both active devices have their inherent distortion profile and cha... | |
| Does a Tube Dac make sense? @stibin,I’ve heard a number of tube DACs and they can range from just okay to superb, same exact experience with transistor DACs. The sound quality will be determined by the talent of the builder, design, part quality, attention to detail and impl... |