cundare2
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| Current or Previous Harbeth Owners… Let me add my voice to the chorus of high praise for the C7ES3. I originally chose that model because more than one Harbeth employee mentioned off the the record that upper management considered the C7 line the "best-sounding" of what Harbeth had ... | |
| Are new Mark Levinson Preamps better than old? @triwhiz You mentioned upgrading ML DACs. Are you talking about migrating from a DAC1 to a DAC2 module? If so, can you provide a little detail about the ways in which the DAC2's SQ was an improvement? And in retrospect, do you consider that dif... | |
| Do speakers need to be re-broken in? Like so many things audio, my best guess is that anybody who tries to definitively answer this question "yes" or "no" really has no idea. I can say from personal experience that speaker break-in does exist. But I can’t define with any credibilty ... | |
| Physical degradation of CD's There are a lot of reasons why CDs fail to play correctly. A case of "CD rot" -- i.e., oxidation of the aluminum layer -- is very, very rare in all but the earliest replicated discs. It can be identified with the naked eye as black layers of oxid... | |
| T+A's new R 2500 R integrated amp https://darko.audio/2024/10/ta-r-2500-r-video-review/ I just discovered this R 2500 R Darko review, which covers most of the points I outlined above, even confirming some of the reasons why an old monoblockhead like me, for the first time, chose ... | |
| Friends hi-fi system not very good, what do you do or say? The OP can answer this question him (or her) self. Reverse the situation. You invite a buddy to listen to your great, great system, one that you've spent years tweaking. Your friend has her own spectacular system, which cost her about the same,... | |
| Sub suggestions please There are some great suggestions in this thread but, not surprisingly, nobody is mentioning the exquisite Perlisten line. Perlisten has a low profile on Audiogon, perhaps because the company rarely submits its products for review. But make no m... | |
| Help Deciding On New Speakers For Small Room, $10k budget exley_99 +1 I’m in very much the same situation as the OP. I’m older and not able to handle heavy components, live in an isolated area & unable to travel to shows or dealers to hear before I buy, have a relatively small (14x17) listening r... | |
| Physical degradation of CD's Many years ago, when I was a contributing editor to various mainstream tech publications, I did a large feature on disc rot. Spoke at length with engineers, large manufacturing & fab facilities, the whole nine yards. At this point, I don’t rem... | |
| Qobuz and Tidal comparison Long-time (content) Tidal user here. But I'm always open to other opinions. I have a lot of obscure musical interests (like 1970s Soviet and Eastern European jazz & progressive rock) that Tidal serves surprisingly well. But I have one big i... | |
| Looking for more advice on purchasing a new turntable. And now for something completely different. A few years ago, I ordered a GEM Dandy Polytable in your price range, a table that was suggested to me personally by no less than Michael Fremer himself. Despite the witty name, this table is pretty ser... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @richardbrand Yes, the brain works in mysterious ways. I think we could have a long conversation offline or in another thread about psychoacoustics. | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @richardbrand You may be able to tell that my last response was posted before I’d finished editing. There was a lot more there, which would take me too long to reproduce. But the gist of it was that you can find outstanding recordings used if y... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital @richardbrand D:\Gr - Vid\QUADRichard: As I’m sure you know, "KoB" is one of the most highly respected releases in that particular genre, and it’s a good entry point if you’re not already a fan. But I can understand your reaction. I remember many... | |
| Recommendations for a jazz record which demonstrates vinyl superiority over digital This is based on nothing more than my personal experience -- like every other personal opinion posted here -- but in the interest of full disclosure, I've been buying records, without interruption, since the mid-1960s, probably 5-10,000 sides. T... |