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| Trenner & Friedle ART/Ella or Devore 9 or O/93? I really enjoy my O93s. To my surprise I like them even better than my Verity Parsifals. I drive them using a Coincident 211 Dragon Monoblocks.I heard the T&F Pharaoh and the O93 at RMAF 2013 both in different rooms with different electronics.... | |
| AMR DP-777, what am I missing ? An update.I think my AMR needed more burn-in time. It really sounds fabulous now.For Mingus in Bohemia record. The CD and LP versions are almost indistinguishable.Williewonka,Replacing my slowwww imac with a dedicated mac mini also really helped.I... | |
| First Turntable Advice I started with a Clear audio Concept, and then moved to an Rega RP6.For a beginner I loved it. It does all the important things well. No VTA adjustments is actually great for me.Its very musical and richAm now moving to a Rega RP8. | |
| Pre-amp recommendation Coincident statement line stage and the trl dude preamp are quite liked in this forum at that price point . | |
| AMR DP-777, what am I missing ? I am currently evaluating using a iMac 4GB with regular HDD, vs mac mini 8GB RAM and fusion drive.Do not hear a difference worth changing to mac mini with more memory and SSD. Next up will be trying a USB/SPDIF converter.Thanks Williewonka, I will... | |
| AMR DP-777, what am I missing ? Williewonka,Looks like the USB cable you mentioned is sold out.Any ideas on how to get a cable like this elsewhere.Thanks | |
| AMR DP-777, what am I missing ? Douglas, ElsnebIt would certainly make me a very happy camper if a simple USB cable solved my problems. I am surprised with all the talk about USB Power supplies, SPDIF converters with clocks in them in the other threads that you think they harm t... | |
| AMR DP-777, what am I missing ? Other dacs I have tried are: triode labs dac, nad m51, benchmark hgc, wavelength cosecant. Amr in my memory seems the beat of the lot.The usb input is async for sure. Yes I use usbDouglas, can you recommend some usb systems, I am assuming you mean... | |
| AMR DP-777, what am I missing ? John,That's cause a lot of music I listen to are not available on vinyl only CDs :( | |
| AMR DP-777, what am I missing ? I was afraid that was going to be the answer.Was considering selling my analog setup to reduce the number of stuff I own, but guess not yet.Redcarerra, I am considering getting the ifi usb stuff to see if that could help. Mattshipln huge thread ha... | |
| Speaker for Coincident Dragons Mk 2 ? Help. Subframe, Hard to say, I heard them at different times and with very different equipment. All I can say is that I liked them both: Verity and Orangutans.I missed out twice this summer, suffice to say if either (parsifal, orangutan) of them come up... | |
| Speaker for Coincident Dragons Mk 2 ? Help. Hi Charles,Thanks for your reply. Yes I have ruled out Coincident, heard them at RMAF, they didn't grab me. I love the Orangutans for sure, am wondering if the Silverbacks might be more transparent yet less "musical" or "rich".I am partial to spea... | |
| Speaker for Coincident Dragons Mk 2 ? Help. Haven't heard of Legacy before.Seems like it has 4 Ohm impedance, my dragon's have only 8 and 16 ohm tap (although they power my 4 ohm VA Mozart quite well)Curious, What makes you think Legacy would work well with Dragons ? Have you heard that com... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Am still eagerly awaiting a comparison between Overdrive and K-01. Any chance that would be happening soon. | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Been a long-time follower of this thread. So informative.Would love to hear comparisons between the K-01 and the ODSE myself too. |