davide256
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| TT upgrade advice? Geoff85, vinyl is a recorded vibration and it takes good design and physics in a turtable to extract the dynamic range and bass out of a groove. Micro level chassis vibrations distort the vibration actually produced at the stylus, causing you a bo... | |
| Optimizing the Prima Luna Premium Integrated amp I may dabble with them at some point but the combination of the Amperex AT7's with the EL34's was like when you turn a knob and it clicks into place.... so many things were suddenly right I didn't feel a need to do more than fine tune the back 12A... | |
| USB to SPDIF Converters In the FWIW column I have since replaced the Vlink with the JK MkIII modified Hiface and using the Young drivers. This was an outstanding improvement but 4x the cost. | |
| Optimizing the Prima Luna Premium Integrated amp I've continued tinkering and over the last few months of tube rolling repeated, varied A/B comparison has led me to 1 inescapable conclusion. In the PL Premium Integrated while the GL KT-88's are wonderful tubes with tighter control than the stoc... | |
| Old TT vs New TT: Rebuilt Dual 701 or Rega RP3 on the rega arms the other major improvement is replacing the rubber 0-ring friction coupled counterweight with a screw down counterweight. This improves transient detail. | |
| Audiophile Speakers with 25 yr + Longevity I bought my Magnepan MG 1B speakers in 1985. They have been to the factory twice... the first time when I blew the tweeters because the fuse was bypassed and the second time 10 years later when the repair needed touch up. The speakers are now hand... | |
| Old TT vs New TT: Rebuilt Dual 701 or Rega RP3 Vinyl Nirvana has some rebuilt Thorens that might be good alternative options.Otherwise go for the Rega if you want high quality, reliable non suspension TT in the under $1.5K range. | |
| Comparing rips could it be the track information? The reason I use dbpoweramp is because it works at attaching the library track information for wav... others I have used had problems. | |
| Fidelizer phusis, i use JRiver MC 17, haven't shelled out yet for the 18 upgrade. | |
| PC audio with USB DAC sounds like you want to stay mainstream (compressed music). Consider the Sonos system with the Wyred4sound DAC upgrade. | |
| Fidelizer Phusis, you don't post your system but I see from one of your threads that you use the NuForce DAC-9... this has USB but its not listed as asynchronous. Without asynch usb computer audio is a lame duck. I run a PS Audio DLinkIII with the JKMkIII a... | |
| Fidelizer waste of time. Jplay blows fidelizer out of the water, assuming that you play lossless vs midfi quality audio files | |
| ASUS Xonar STX - Distortion (1)have you used the Asus control panel to make sure enhancements (ha!) are disabled? 2) Are you feeding analog out or using digital to a DAC? 3)Highly recommend that you use Jplay so long as your source music is lossless as that will improve vari... | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-10A mod experiences? since last post I have actually made 3 changes. (1) in general I prefer to stay within manufacturer specs and I was curious about the Obbligatos so I've swapped in a 0.15uf Obbligatto to replace the Rel RT 0.1uf. So far its nice, sweet sounding, n... | |
| Asynchronous USB input 24/96 vs 24/192 192khz music takes up twice the disk space of 96khz music and is still relatively uncommon. That said, don't worry about 192khz, just worry about how good the DAC is at 96khz and how well does it meet your system needs. |