dgarretson
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| How good is the Obsidian plinth of Technics SP10 ? I'm a believer in Stillpoints in some applications, but in the case of an SP-10 Mk IIa in the obsidian plinth, three pairs of good ears had difficulty detecting any meaningful difference between stock footers and Ultra SS. This may have been beca... | |
| SP10mk2: OMA Graphite plinth vs.Dobbins plinth @pani A reliable audiophile friend of mine installed an IEC inlet in the SP-10 Mk2 PS and tried several high end PCs. No difference. | |
| “Sharp Objects” Tonearm/ Cartridge More interesting perhaps, is that inside the plotline her step-father has a high-end rig of VPI TT and some very fancy separates(Classe, Chord, or Sim Audio?) that he calls his "new toy," his absorption with which signifies estrangement from the t... | |
| Better CDP or network player? +1 sbank . RIP silver disc. For $2K an uRendu + RAID NAS is the way forward. | |
| Help with streaming Tidal's Master tracks I’ve compared many Tidal MQA 24/96 first unfolds of ECM and Blue Note jazz titles to those titles ripped at 16/44.1 from CDs. The Tidal MQA 24/96 versions are superior. | |
| Elvis Costello/Cancer As Costello is on record as considering himself a lapsed Catholic, the God reference is a stretch. I am a big fan, and wish him the best. | |
| CDs Vs LPs 8^( the physical media is only thing of value to me. Everything else (gear) is easily replaced.@ct0517 I said I'll "eventually" sell off the physical media-- meaning sometime before the final curtain... | |
| CDs Vs LPs I’ve been recording vinyl to DSD128 for awhile now. That’s the best of both worlds. The process has stimulated me to raise the quality of both analog and digital front ends. It has led to more care and discipline cleaning vinyl, and increased prec... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Wilco, The Whole Love, and Uncle Tupelo, Still Feel Gone. What a family tree! | |
| Thumbs up for ultrasonic record cleaning If not filtered out after each cycle, visible particles definitely settle to the bottom of a US tank, aggregating into long chains of grey fluff. Some remain at the bottom, and some agitate into the middle and upper reaches of the tank during use,... | |
| price of Oppo players threw the roof So bad that I threw up through the roof. | |
| Music Server Recommendation I read a pro review of an Ayre DAC someplace(which IIRC was the first DAC to market with a native Ethernet interface), in which the reviewer preferred the USB input to the Ethernet input. Its likely that a native ethernet interface may have varia... | |
| Streaming Music and being able to keep them as your personel files Revisiting my hi-res recording of a streamed Tidal master off the digital output of a DAC, it appears that the recorded file survives intact and is playable through Roon, provided that the Tidal version of that album is not tagged to the Roon libr... | |
| Streaming Music and being able to keep them as your personel files @zyac39 Well, I guess I raised more questions than I answered. Several hours after copying that file into my NAS for replay through the Roon core, the file and its folder mysteriously evaporated! However, it still resides on the PC to which I or... | |
| Streaming Music and being able to keep them as your personel files I can confirm that a Tidal stream-- including Tidal MQA masters that decode to 24/96-- can be digitally copied from the digital output of a DAC. That's all she wrote... |