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| Turntable upgrade recommendations: SME vs AMG vs Technics vs other @solypsa I am looking at the top end of the manufacturers: so I was considering the Technics SP10R or SL1000R, the AMG Viella V12 (or similar), or the SME 30/2 or similar. If all the turntables are as good as another, then I suppose I would ... | |
| DAC - DCS Bartok or the new Berkeley Alpha DAC 3 It appears that most of the DACs are not set up to receive 2 channel input from a CD transport. They all have 2 channels out, but just various connections for streaming, but nothing for transports. How would I connect a transport to one of these? | |
| DAC - DCS Bartok or the new Berkeley Alpha DAC 3 I know almost nothing about DAC, except that there are at least two different approaches to DAC: a delta sigma approach, and an R2R approach. Are all of these DAC's (ARC, Berkeley, and DCS) delta sigma DAC's? | |
| New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning I just used my ultrasonic record cleaner today for the first time, and I will have to agree that the results are amazing: extreme clarity, transparency, lack of pops and crackles. I just used distilled water at room temperature, and didn’t even tr... | |
| Two surprising things I found that improved my imaging and staging... @captbeaverWhen I go to that Cardas site, it only tells me distance from side and rear walls, but nothing about toe it, etc. Did you just experiment with toe in?Thanks. | |
| Two surprising things I found that improved my imaging and staging... @sns I have a hard time understanding why anything between the speakers would affect the soundstage: the sound doesn't come from between the speakers, but rather from the speakers on each side, which, in stereo make it sound like the sound is com... | |
| The Most Philosophical Song You Ever Heard I know that this will be a real outlier: how about the JS Bach Cantata, "Ich habe genug", translated as "I have enough"... I’m rather certain that Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau performed it best. | |
| In praise of isolation. I have had limited exposure to isolation options; my amplifiers are on a concrete slab, and my components are on a solid walnut sideboard. At this point, I’m somewhat skeptical that isolation would make much of a difference, except for possibly th... | |
| DAC - DCS Bartok or the new Berkeley Alpha DAC 3 @gerryah930How does the Esoteric sound compare to DCS, ARC in your opinion? | |
| DAC - DCS Bartok or the new Berkeley Alpha DAC 3 Just curious, how would an Esoteric streamer/DAC, such as the $20k N-01XD compare with the $15-20k DCS, Berkeley, and ARC DAC's? Thanks. | |
| Room rearrangement. Cable question @steakster If you're interested, I think that the blind study with power cords was done in October 2007, and is on the AVS forum. I'll see if I can post a link: Observations of a controlled Cable Test | Page 2 | AVS Forum | |
| Room rearrangement. Cable question @hilde45" there are some things that just aren't done; such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs” Perhaps. . .perhaps not. I remember reading abo... | |
| XLR or RCA cables? @vanson1In my very limited experience, I have found XLR to be quieter cables than RCA cables, tending also produce a truer sound, without significant coloration. With a truly balanced system, supposedly you're not supposed to hear a difference be... | |
| Room rearrangement. Cable question @millercarbonI've never heard of suspending speaker cables. . what's the rationale behind that? (I understand some rationale behind keeping electrical cables separated from audio signal cables, but if they are shielded, which most are, I don't kn... | |
| Authorized Rega Service Center in New York @yogiboy Yes, Alma and David are great people. Yes, I purchased the new Linn Krystal cartridge from them, and they are installing it and aligning it, and will ship it back to me. . . the shipping isn’t a problem, just an extra $50 each way. The sh... |