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| Integrated that blew you away VAC Renaissance 70/70. ASR Emitter II. And Theliste! A Jadis DA88. Whoaaaa, man! I had a Jadis Defy 7. back in 1991. It is VERY hard to beat a Jadis for sounding "alive." | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) @billpete I agree. I find that, even when it was recorded poorly, it also had fewer microphones and all the things they do in the engineering that reduces the "aliveness" of music nowadays, that it sounds more like there are real people playing... | |
| For Those Who Are Unaware of The Cable Company + 1 @nutty Maybe there was a mixup in communication. I am a VERY direct guy, and if someone behaves poorly towards me, especially in retail, since I owned a retail business, I let them know that if they worked for me and they behaved this way... | |
| Shunyata interconnect cables experience This thread is four years old. I am only appending a footnote. If anyone wants to try out cables, try The Cable Company. They have a Lending Library of cables, and the loan them out for 2-3 weeks. I pay 5% of the retail cost (usually around $60 f... | |
| dCS Bartok DAC - Interesting Video Review Was this whole review conducted using headphones? | |
| For Those Who Are Unaware of The Cable Company The Cable Company’s prices are what the MSRP is. What Shunyata costs at The Cable Company, it also costs at Music Direct. I use the Cable Company often. Bought Shunyata’s Theta power cable last year, and quite a few other products from them over ... | |
| Vinyl playback - lack of bass? I have never experienced a lack of bass in my system. I assume the thought is that it’s the analog setup, but that would not automatically be the case simply due to it being vinyl. I had the Versa Dynamics 2.3 turntable in my system in the ’80s a... | |
| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening People who are very young will not remember a time - mostly the '60s, when album covers were works of art. Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones. A ZIPPER on the album cover! Naturally, people were shocked! SHOCKED, I tell you!!! Buying an album b... | |
| Is it possible to find a good DAC for under $50, 000? @mahler123 I knew TAS (the magazine And the staff) decently well at one time, and I am hard pressed to remember them suggesting to anyone that their dac was "obsolete," just because of a new technology on the horizon. And not all of us who ha... | |
| The new dCS Varese DAC...it is so good that all others are now relegated to history?? I’m sure it advances the art of sound, as the review concludes. It’s the same as with newer, more advanced car models; they don’t negate the cars already out there. But they are an advance in driving. And products simply co-exist. DCS has alw... | |
| Anyone else constantly curious about amps? What is it that you want the new amplifier to do that your current one doesn't? Are you looking for more nuance, more dynamic range or dynamic contrasts, tonal quality or something else? I find it helpful to know what you want a new component to ... | |
| I could have started this on the cables thread.....but.... I am not surprised. There always seems to be something that seems unimportant in the system, but then we find out otherwise! Glad you solved the problem and have a better system! | |
| If Bi-Wiring is an option, should I choose Bi-wiring over single banana with free jumpers I’ve had both on my Nola Lotus Elites 20 years ago, and they sound better bi-wired. I find the bass frequencies sound clearer when they have their own lead. I can't say that I’ve found very many speakers that sounded their best with a jumper inst... | |
| Stereophile review of the new Wilson Watt/Puppy @ckr1969 Then it must have been a poor setup. As a former WATTS/Puppy owner for decades, the last thing they lack - even though this WATT is a newer one - was "realism." BUT, I found them more realistic with tubes, which was annoying due to that... | |
| Vinyl sounds better (shots fired) If I am listening to classical music, I find vinyl replays it closer to how it sounds in Meyershoff, Carnegie or David B. Geffen halls. The way the music "billows" as it does in real life is more apparent to me with my turntable than with my digit... |