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| Jeff Rowland's Continumm Well Coffeey, if you're going to depend on reviewers to tell you what to listen to, then Rowland is probably not for you. OTOH, those that listen for themselves should step right up. Of course, our friend Guido is a reviewer. Maybe you should list... | |
| Review: Playback Designs MPS-5 CD Player Thanks for the great review Mike. It may be time for me to take the plunge.What happens when you insert a DVD-A? Does it try to do anything, or just sit there glaring at you? Have you tried any other file formats?Do you know anything about the tec... | |
| mastering vs room and synergy of equipment Oh, I forgot, do you have a link to your system description?Dave | |
| mastering vs room and synergy of equipment Mike, could you tell us about your DAC and transport. A friend (Ric Schultz) told me that you replaced your EMM equipment with something new that's a stunning advance.I'd like to read all I can about the best in hi rez digital. I've been relativel... | |
| Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus - best LP? Yeah, if you could find the AP 45rpm, it's the one to have IMHO. I see that Acoustic Sounds is back ordered."Way Out West" is great. "The Bridge" is my other favorite, pehaps thanks to Jim Hall accompanying on guitar.Dave | |
| Confused and unsure about upgrading my speakers. Here's a good rule of thumb, don't follow rules of thumb. Follow your ears instead, at least in this hobby.You seem to have put musical enjoyment first and ended up with a system that should be very good at your investment level. Don't worry about... | |
| Jeff Rowland Pre with Pass Labs X350.5 or X600.5 Yes, the old manuals for the Synergy and Coherence are still on the web site. I believe that the Critereon will have similar functionality and more. Rowland considers the Capri his base preamp.Dave | |
| Jeff Rowland's Continumm I'm finding Colorado, by and large, a little more politically correct than Texas, as you might imagine. (If we could throw out the Republic of Boulder we would swing way back toward "normal"). Anyway, that 'optically disabled' handle is a new one ... | |
| Jeff Rowland's Continumm Very funny G. We're all looking forward to "blind testing" you the next time you're in Colorado. Please forgive me.Jeff's manuals actually say that his components should sound good right out of the box, but when you talk to him personally he think... | |
| Jeff Rowland's Continumm Pinkus, you have a right to your position about burn-in, but if you're going to write reviews (you did, despite its brevity) you owe it to the makers to take the effort to burn-in. You'll notice that the "pro" reviewers routinely mention burn-in. ... | |
| Does anyone out there NOT hear a difference in CD With practice it gets easier to hear differences right away, BUT there's nothing like going back to the original to make things crystal clear, assuming there is a difference.Dave | |
| Jeff Rowland Pre with Pass Labs X350.5 or X600.5 06-02-08: Tvad said:"I require a fixed level output, like that in a tape loop output. I cannot use a line level output to the transceiver."Ok, the Capri doesn't have that.Dave | |
| Jeff Rowland Pre with Pass Labs X350.5 or X600.5 Yes Tvad, you can use both Line Outs at the same time with the Capri. The Bypass Input can be used as a third input for your Transceiver which, in turn from what I understand, can accept additional inputs. So you've got three line level inputs on ... | |
| Jeff Rowland Pre with Pass Labs X350.5 or X600.5 I use the bypass on my Continuum to send a line-level signal to my headphone amp. I think you could use the Capri's bypass to send that signal to your transceiver. There's not as much room on the back of the Capri, so you'll have to look at the ma... | |
| Jeff Rowland's Continumm BTW Guido, Soundings loaned me a Solo Crystal Oval IC to try with my Continuum's phono-stage. OMG, I couldn't believe the bass. I didn't take the effort to measure it, but it was so obvious that I swear that I could have measured it with an SPL me... |