dgarretson
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| We are buying and reviewing gear all wrong @cd318 I’d like to believe in ATC as a full-service supplier, were it not for a dealer demo I heard several years ago with ATC speakers fed by an ATC preamp. The combination was opaque and sterile, whether owing to the speakers or the preamp I kno... | |
| Best MM? I have a Sonus Blue Gold, acquired NIB in the heyday of Raul's MM/MI thread. It's the highest compliance cartridge in my collection of vintage MM/MI. Mounted to a TransFi Terminator it was magnificent except for lightness in LF. I need to try it... | |
| We are buying and reviewing gear all wrong At various times in the odyssey I've gravitated to several components from a single manufacturer(first BAT and more recently Pass), but this pretty much ceased after discovering that almost anything can be improved or successfully re-voiced with D... | |
| Qubuz feedback and membership Plan Suggestions Since yesterday I’m noticing that some Qobuz titles (e.g. Stones Mono box, Springsteen on Broadway) that are shown by Roon as hi-res at 24/96 or above, are actually coming through at 16/44.1. | |
| Qubuz feedback and membership Plan Suggestions The only glitch with the Qobuz trial so far is that this morning the glorious 24/192 Stones mono box set crapped out in the middle of Disc 5 and now produces an error message instead of music. Hopefully they'll get their act together so I can mov... | |
| Where would you sell your vinyl collection? Contact the Presidents of the Philadelphia Area Audio Group and the New Jersey Audio Society and invite their memberships to a garage sale. Princeton Record Exchange will give you only pennies on the dollar. | |
| Pass labs XA-160.8 monos - or - Mark Levinson 536 monos for Magico's I’m completely satisfied with an AtmaSphere MP-1 into Pass XA-160.8 monoblocks. It’s a super clean direct coupled differential balanced tube sound. Give Ralph a call. | |
| New Bluesound's Node 2i I’ve been using a Node 2 as a Roon endpoint in a minimalist second system. The Node 2 benefits from a better power cord. I built a silver PC with Furutech and Oyaide ends. Also, it can definitely sound better through an external DAC. I took from s... | |
| Qobuz. @lalitk In the beta version, so far I've found at least several dozen 24/192 albums in the pop and jazz genres. (I have not checked out Classical.) The Qobuz and Tidal search functions to find them are similarly unwieldy. Roon's search engine do... | |
| Qobuz. Just today I was approved for the Qobuz beta free trial and have been poking around and comparing hi-res Qobuz to Tidal MQA streaming within Roon. There are fewer 24/192 titles than hoped for on Qobuz, but they sound amazing and are a clear notch... | |
| Spam threads gone wild... It's simple. Any new member's first post should be moderated, and the member deleted if that post is spam. | |
| Doug Schroeder Method, Double ic I made another 2M Schroeder balanced IC, this time using Oyaide Focus 1 XLRs(instead of Bocchino) with a double run of Connex/DH Labs BL-Ag, between AtmaSphere MP-1 preamp output and Merlin BBAM line-level equalizer into modified VSM-MX speakers. ... | |
| Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt, on tour Saw their acoustic duo last year at McCarter Theater in Princeton. Great though well-rehearsed repartee and contrast/synergy between Haitt's Memphis/Nashville and Lovett's Texas roots. But Hiatt is the grandmaster... see him while he's still here. | |
| Quality of music after 1st MQA unfold In my system Roon does the first MQA unfold of Tidal into a Roon-compatible SOtM EN/USB renderer, into the USB input of a non-MQA Esoteric K-01X CDP/DAC. The first MQA unfold to 24/96 or 24/88.2 is a meaningful improvement over 16/44.1 streaming-... | |
| KLE RCA plugs are the real deal!! I accord with grannyring. I've made ICs with these and can confirm that they sound great and hold up after many reinsertions. For a solderless connection, the more expensive Bocchino RCAs are preferable, but with KLE it is still possible to make... |