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| Oppo UDP - 205 No silver 205's are planned, according to Oppo. Also Darbee is at least 2 years away if they do it at all. If you have a silver 105D it's value just went up....I think an Oppo 105D will stream 4K so you may not need a 205 of any color, the way t... | |
| Question about new Oppo 4K player Ethos, question - what streaming apps come with the -203 player ? I use my 105D to stream a number of sources, including Netflix, Berliner Philharmoniker, etc.. (I have to use a Roku 3600 stick to stream Amazon, Hulu, etc.. )I was told that Oppo ... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 Lewm, Micheal Percy Audio sells some damping material called "EAR TAD Damping Foils" that 3M makes that is supposed to be the "cat's meow" for under damped tonearms, according to the dudes over at DIYAudio. It's relatively cheap, but the trick is... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 Raul,BTW, I also have a Mission Mechanic tonearm, (the one GB Tools built after the Zeta Black VdH), on a Denon DP-75 direct drive in a custom birch plywood / black acrylic plinth. This tonearm is like a Zeta on steroids !! Sounds pretty good fo... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 Raul, Good to hear from you. No arguments with your and Mr. Carr's observations, but I have just not experienced any resonant problems with my FR-64fx with any of the cartridges I've used it with, (Ortofon SPU, Shelter, Miyajima, Koetsu, Clearaud... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 Lew, I'm sure Ikeda likes his newer designs better. J. Carr apparently does too, and he is a pretty smart dude. I have never heard Ikeda say anything negative about his older arms, however, and the newer Ikeda arms are a refinement of the FR arms... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings Swampwalker - I drove an A3 Quatro - what a great car !! My son loves his A4 also, but what he really wants is a TT. Another sweet set-up is the turbo 4 Porsche just introduced in their 718 Boxster / Cayman twins. It doesn't sound as good as th... | |
| High End Amp Price Collapse musings I don't think Class D amps will replace Class A or AB amps anytime soon - they are simply not all the less expensive to build and have multiple problems, (sound just being one - they can play hell with tweeters life also). Now a turbo 4 IC engine... | |
| Comparing these CD players with my gear... The Oppo 105D is the Swiss army knife for the little silver disc, and it is also a very good streamer. In other words, it will play anything the cat drags in. I use mine to feed a Meridian G68 DAC / preamp via HDMI into a Meridian 621 hub for al... | |
| Fidelity Research FR-64 vs. FR-54 The FR 64fx is anodized aluminum where the FR 64S is steel. The big difference is the moving mass - 20 g for the 64fx vs. ~ 30 g for the 64S. The 64fx and the 66fx are the most expensive arms FR made. They are specialized arms intended for low ... | |
| How much gain is needed in a Phono Preamp for a 0.2 to 0.3mv low output moving coil? How much gain for 0.2 mv MC ? It depends on the gain in your line stage and your amplifier, but I would say 60 db is a good starting point....I wouldn't go any lower, unless your line stage has 15 db of gain or better itself. If you use a buffer... | |
| Best speakers for Pink Floyd? For the seminal albums, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were here, you need the 5.1 SACD mixes and a Vandersteen surround system (Quatro Woods, VCC-5, VSM-1, subwoofers of your choice - I like the Audiokinesis SWARM). Of course, for the stereo... | |
| Anybody else using a distributed array sub system? Guys, I'm not sure what is behind the numbering of Richard's speakers, but he is pretty deliberate in everything he does. The 4 was a bigger 3 with a separately powered subwoofer system - a predecessor to the 5. It must not have been a completel... | |
| Vandersteen Quatro CT Karl, I've got the ceramic Quatro Woods in black, also. They sound magical to me. I had a pair of the original Quatro cloth speakers, and found the Woods to be much more articulate, but still retaining the Vandersteen phase coherence and midrang... | |
| Anybody else using a distributed array sub system? Hi, Tim. To be honest with you, I can't tell the difference. In my opinion, a Class D plate amp is as good as a decent Class A/B amp for this application. TIM and all the other issues Class D amps have been associated with are really not that a... |