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| Norah Jones - Tidal vs. Hi Res ? This sites my bible for getting the best version and it’s never let me down.But looking at this they’re all a bit of a muchness, the 2012 sacd redbook layer looks the best by a touch, the last one a 2007 Blue Note version has the worst compression... | |
| I'm not dreaming - these are great CD copies A lot of CD copies do sound better than the original CD. I think it has to do with error correction. Watch a CD spin in a top loader with a window. CDs are not perfectly balanced and will oscillate. I believe this can cause read errors. " I belie... | |
| I'm not dreaming - these are great CD copies I’m not dreaming - these are great CD copies I think your hear an extra something to you good or bad) that error correct gives.Original retail is always best.There’s a lot more laser error correction goes on in a burnt cd compared to a stamped re... | |
| Gotta love Nelson Pass His 1977 A20 driving Quad ESL57's made me a believer, so much so, I morphed that amp into a massive 2 man lift pure 150w Class-A, that was water cooled, own pump, radiator, and cooling fan. http://www.firstwatt.com/pdf/art_classa_20.pdfCheers George | |
| Speakers "Disappearing" The Chesky one I mentioned was the only one I’ve come across that centred on getting imagining and depth right with your speaker positioning.Let me say right now though if you have all your audio gear on racks in between your speakers, say goodbye... | |
| Cary 805 AE-do they go low? I can't find damping factor info about the Cary. Damping factor at 8ohms is a product of output impedance. In table one the output impedance at 20hz is at best .51ohm from the 4ohm tap which equates to a damping factor of 15.6 which is not gre... | |
| Cary 805 AE-do they go low? but do need the frequency range at the bottom to not be rolled off. Frequency range down low and control at those frequencies are two different things that an amp has to have. Just because an amp goes low, doesn’t mean it has control.Control in t... | |
| Cary 805 AE-do they go low? They have a questionable "magic" to the mid-range, but I believe that’s highlighted at an expense of the bass which is a little bloated and which adds body to the lower mids. And the highs are not as immediate because of the diminished extension a... | |
| Wadia 830 laser impossible to source? How certain are you that it actually is a dead laser beam? It’s 19 years old now, my bet’s on the laser, unless the OP's overlooked belts gears and such.Cheers George | |
| Cary 805 AE-do they go low? It all comes down to the output transformer quality, and how the 805 is driven, best is with an inter-stage transformer.I had some real 805 SET 40kg monoblocks (with variable feedback), not 845 called 805's. I built these up with 13D3 input, 12bh7... | |
| Sonic Frontiers SFD-2 MkIII... USED PRICE... oh and you had fun working on it too! No, I was actually crying it sounded so good when it was not digital farting, and that it couldn't be fixed unless it it went back to Linn.Cheers George | |
| Sonic Frontiers SFD-2 MkIII... USED PRICE... You are fortunate to own the Linn CD12.Happy Listening! Yeah real funny story, it's the very last MkIII model with 4 x "K" versions of the PCM1704 and PMD200 hdcd. Got it in to look at from a friend who's not short of a buck, it had intermitt... | |
| Sonic Frontiers SFD-2 MkIII... USED PRICE... stonie OP1 posts03-24-2018 12:56pmHi George... this is the MKIII not the MkII which uses the UA’s. Your right the MKIII uses my favourite and best R2R Multibit 8 X 24/96 Burr Brown PCM1704’s which I have in my Linn CD12 (they are the "K" version ... | |
| Speakers "Disappearing" rlb61 OP234 posts03-24-2018 12:28pm@georgehifi ... thanks. I looked for "DJ 37 Sampler" instead of "Vol. 1." Unfortunately, it’s a digital download only and I’m a CD dinosaur. I’m sure you can download it on this computer your on, then burn it to... | |
| Speakers "Disappearing" rlb61 OP232 posts03-24-2018 12:02pm@georgehifi ... any idea where I can get that disc? I looked on Amazon and the Chesky website, but couldn't find it. https://cheskyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/chesky-records-jazz-sampler-audiophile-test-vol-1C... |