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| Music Servers VS Excellent Transports? Davemitchell, thanks for the review of the Olive.Have you heard DSD copies of vinyl? I'm making 1-bit 5.6MHz copies of my D2D vinyl with incredible results. You can't tell the digital from the vinyl. It's easier to identify cable swaps (which you ... | |
| Music Servers VS Excellent Transports? Davemitchell said:"A couple of disagreements: 1. No CD playback can equal the sound of the best vinyl."Agreed, but digital can be get extremely close, particularly DVD-A and SACD. Olive has a higer rez Music Server, but, unfortunately the onboard ... | |
| Audiophile turntables of the 60's and 70's I had a Lux after my first Garrard. See a very interesting thread at http://forum.stereophile.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=32003&an=0&page=0#Post32003Of course, Linn was around then. I might have bought one except Igor, Ivan wha... | |
| Vinyl or wait for the new stuff?? I've been reading Peter Aczel on and off since the mid-1970s. IMHO, he shouts to make his point of the day, but is as likely to flip-flop as a fish in the bottom of the boat. Yes, CDs can sound pretty darn good and digital can sound extremely good... | |
| An Audiophile Goal Well Acoustat6, I think that I see your problem. You've got a seriously flawed system. If listening through your computer is superior, then you've got really big problems. Your speaker placement probably has you speakers behaving badly and literal... | |
| Where are the female Audiophiles? I think that women DO hear better and that is part of the difference. They immediately hear how sad our systems are, no matter how much we've spent on silly cables, monstrous speakers and glowing tubes. They hear the intermodulation distortion goi... | |
| Music Servers VS Excellent Transports? 12-20-07: Audioengr said:"... Digital is better than most people's experience, actually capable of surpassing the best in vinyl. Did you have vinyl before, or still?"Steve, I just wanted chime and say I think you're right. I think we're on the cus... | |
| An Audiophile Goal Bob, you gave it a mighty try, but I'll need to agree to disagree. I seem not to have budged you one bit and I still think your goal will not yield fruit.Thanks for the fun discussion and happy holidays.Dave | |
| Parsifals vs Mahlers - best for what I got? The Ovations retail for about 2.5 times the Mahlers with the same finish. For that kind of price differential, it'd be worth taking a trip to a large city where you could hear both. Denver would be such a city with non-stop air service from many c... | |
| An Audiophile Goal Acoustat6 said:"I do believe that all LPs can/should be played back at the same level, if you like the sound of the LP is another question entirely or if your system is capable of the dynamics."I guess that I should have asked this earlier (I've r... | |
| An Audiophile Goal Acoustat6 said:".... As a now confirmed audiophile, now that I have a realistic and perhaps more importantly a measurable goal, I could start figuring out which albums sound good and which do not. It was easy, every LP is played back at the same g... | |
| An Audiophile Goal If "there is only one correct volume level for any particular piece of music" is true (I agree that there is a range, but would disagree that there's one exact level, but let's forget that for now), then how can referencing your playback system to... | |
| speaker/room bass modes I agree with everything said so far; however, I'd like to add that interaction with the wall behind the speakers is hypercritical, particularly if the speakers have rear-firing ports. You can excite a node and then attenuate it by moving a speaker... | |
| All about the bass Within your $5K budget, I'd recommend the Vienna Acoustics Beethoven Baby Grands with a REL sub woofer. You only mentioned tight/powerful/fast. If you go with the setup I'm suggesting, you'll get that plus you'll hear the true character of the bas... | |
| Good turntables w/o record clamps 12-17-07: Lewm said:"The clamp is kind of a "tweak". As with all tweaks, there will be some who swear by it and some who hate it or are indifferent to its use. So, in the end with any table, it will be a matter of your own opinion based on your ow... |