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| The best amp for $2k tube, solid state or hybrid I just got the Butler 5150 for my HT rig to replace my Anthem PVA-7 and it is really sweet. As people are prone to say around here, the difference was not subtle... I totally agree with Rlwainwright - this is a solidly built piece - the binding po... | |
| Herbie Hancock, River: The Joni Letters Many years ago I worked with Herbie on a track for one of my clients. The man is meticulous. Besides that he works in his choice of facilities with his choice of engineers and musicians. But mostly he is meticulous.So after reading your post, when... | |
| Storing Cd's on Hard Disk Tim - home run.Talk to Gordon about the silver/no silver and your tastesJust be sure to have a second hard drive to back up the first. Given how inexpensive hard drives are, I would recommend Terabyte drives. Buy the enterprise rated drives not th... | |
| Best SSP - Upgrade from Integra DTC 9.8 Xlnt news Guy - I love a happy endingFWIW Integra is Onkyo's is upmarket brand. I would assume that they share engineering and manufacturing resources.They do seem to have completely independent service/support groups here in the US | |
| Storing Cd's on Hard Disk you must mean converting from AIFF to Lossless... | |
| What would you buy Sub $350 Firewire/USB DAC Pacific Valvel certainly does put a US face on the product. The primary thing that came up when I researched them is that the products they sell have been properly specced and built for the US market - 117/60. At the time one could order the same ... | |
| amp platform suggestions... Fiddler - for a long time people recommended - and as far as I know still use Vibrapods between two pieces of material like Lexan. | |
| amp platform suggestions... Yes WOW - that's why the constant caveat YMMVThe Polycrystal, Symposium Ultra and Black Diamond Racing have all sounded good for me, as do the Sistrums. The Silent Running gear is supposed to be awesome. But you are in a different budgetary league... | |
| What would you buy Sub $350 Firewire/USB DAC Well drubin - I don't know - I am not flogging the Hagerman (always upfront about what I have owned or tried) just trying to provide some historical context. If you have spent the time and money messing with two box systems you know just how hard ... | |
| What would you buy Sub $350 Firewire/USB DAC The USB to SPDIF box need not be an arm and a leg. There was a brilliant small device called the Waveterminal U24 which helped launch this whole evolution a few years ago. Trick is that it got its power from the USB cable which carries 5v - ergo n... | |
| amp platform suggestions... Like Zephyr I have noticed that certain types of isolation devices work better on certain kinds of materials. Granite is very unforgiving of brass points, BDRs etc. Granite is excellent if your goal is to isolate your component from any wall or fl... | |
| Storing Cd's on Hard Disk Tim -the CD reader does not impact quality (so long as it works) because it is reading data files not pits - that's the big reason that a hard drive transport sounds so much better then a CD player - none of the electro-optical-mechanical problems... | |
| What would you buy Sub $350 Firewire/USB DAC The upsampling is a beast of a different color entirely - my only extended experience with it was with the TriVista. It was very smooth with no obvious artifacts but one day I just got up and turned it off. I just didn't like it.Since that experie... | |
| Best transport for $500.ooish Oppo - why spend more | |
| Used MF Trivista 21 or Benchmark Dac1? I owned the TriVista with the full Parts Connexion mods - it was a fabulous piece. Heirloom quality - hard to imagine anything ever wearing out.Even the tubes - urban legend has it (backed in this case by fact) that MF actually has enough tubes in... |