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| Best Sounding Passive Preamp You should look at Placette. Not as inexpensive as these others, perhaps, but state-of-the-art sonics. Plus, in-home 30 day trial. | |
| Rock and Roll Snobbery Good post, Jim. I often have very musical experiences with poor to middling stereos, even sometimes with my girlfriend's dreaded Bose Acoustimass, and certainly in the car. The sound gets out of the way, and I hear the musical line, the gestalt of... | |
| Tinnitus anyone? Not specific to tinnitus, but there was an item in the recent S'phile (I think) about the Audio CD from Digital Recordings (digital-recordings.com). This is a self-administered hearing test from 20Hz to 20kHz (audiology tests normally stop around ... | |
| Patricia Barber and Stereophile Even on Cafe Blue the drums are spread too far, IMO. | |
| Best Low Volume System Dekay, can you provide a pointer to that other thread? I also listen a lot a low volume and have wondered if maybe the high end doesn't need a good Fletcher-Munson loudness adjustment. And I echo the earlier recommendation of Quad electrostatics. | |
| Help learn diff.between SS and Tube Pardon my topic drift and let me ask the tube enthusiasts a question: I love the purity, clarity and focus of my Pass X-150. If I wanted to try a tube amp in my system (driving Spendor SP1/2) and did not want to stray far from these characteristic... | |
| PS Audio PP300 works great, but...... Sometimes it does seem as if there is such as thing as too clean. too black a background. Musicians should not sound as if they are playing in the vacuum of deep outer space (black though it may be), there should be some sense of the "ether", don'... | |
| Levinson 39 or Wadia 830/850/860 ? I listened to both and ended up with the No. 39, for what it's worth. | |
| SACD player as CD transport? This begs the question, is it worth the extra $1500 for the SCD-1 over the 777, considering performance as an SACD player and as a CD transport for use with externl DAC? | |
| SACD player as CD transport? Thanks Calloway. The Dodson is in fact what I have, so good to hear it works well. Have you compared it with other transports in connection with the Dodson? | |
| SACD player as CD transport? J&R price is $3299, by the way. | |
| SACD player as CD transport? Thanks. By the way, I can't find the Sony products at OADE.com. Any other opinions out there? Is it a contender as a transport with a serious outboard DAC? | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Fair enough, Frogman. Good post. I am mostly a subjectivist, have a lot of money invested in cables and hear a lot of differences between things that many argue must sound the same. I think being open minded works both ways. In this particular cas... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? Ask and ye shall receive. Frogman set off my BS detector. I'm open minded here and do no want to attack anyone personally, but a family resemblance suggests that the listener is projecting a family persona on the family members. Because the job of... | |
| Why do digital cables sound different? I share others' puzzlement here. Differences between coax and AES/EBU are perhaps easier to accept, but when comparing two different brands of coax, what can possibly be going on? In a conversation with a leading DAC designer earlier this week, he... |