harrylavo
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| Crazy to buy a 17 year old CD Player? I'll second the POV of the respondent who recommended OPPO. Both the 105 and the 205 have state of the art DACs, and upsample everything to 192/24 and play DSD in native format, including (if you wish) multi-channel analog output. I love ARC gear... | |
| Best indoor FM antenna, your experience. The best long distance FM antenna ever made was the APS-13 made by Antenna Products Company. It went out of production in the early part of this century. You conceivably could find a used one with want ads in Craig's List, Audiomart, etc. Combi... | |
| 16 bit is good enough..... Wolf has reminded me to add "if the rest of your system is musical and not edgy" to the above. I agree, Wolf ... I've reverted to an updated ARC SP-6 which is more neutral than the 6B I had when it was new, and have never enjoyed my system more: ... | |
| 16 bit is good enough..... At 78 years of age, forgive me for forgetting the punch line. There is absolutely no reason today for anybody not to have both digital playback and analog playback and enjoy both equally. If you are an analog fan, spend a few shekels on an OPPO 9... | |
| 16 bit is good enough..... I think the key here has been touched on, but not singled out: time-domain transient distortion, more important the higher in frequency the transient is. Early ways of dealing with it on straight CD's were filters that sacrificed high-frequencies... | |
| 2017 ‘Keeper’ speakers under - $25K Used high-end Thiels, and especially the 7.2. | |
| Fm tuner I also listen to a lot of FM Classical here in Western Mass (WFCR). I can solidly recommend these two FM tuners. I own them now, and have owned others through the year.* Fisher FM90B - a late, basic model Fisher tube tuner with sound that puts ... | |
| Last stylus preservative...anyone still use it? I have used both the Last Stylus Preservative and Last Record Preservative since they came out. I use Last Stylus Cleaner perhaps every three times I play a disk. Have been doing this since the products were introduced (I am an OLD audiophile) w... | |
| Center Channel on an Integrated Stereo Amplifier The main reason a center channel sounds better on movies is that they tend to use it primarily for the voices in order to "bring them out" (eg higher volume, closer miking) and these can easily be correlated with the folks being portrayed, which t... | |
| 3 channel watching and 2 channel listening I've scrapped my 5.1 receiver for a 4.0 channel setup. I've substituted an ARC SP-6a (updated) for the front and ordinary stereo use; substitted an Audionics BT-2 for the rear channels, and eliminated subwoofer by using Thiel 3.5's which are flat... | |
| Speaker recommendation for married couple Earbuds. Anything else will be too loud for her. | |
| Speaker phase observation and question? Years ago there was quite an audio controversy over whether inverse phase could be "heard". Nothing ever came to a head, but based on my own observations I believe it can, however subtle. I have for nearly thirty years owned Spiels and love Spic... | |
| FM alive and well here...curious question I have two FM tuners in my two main systems .... a Carver TX-11 in the secondary and an udated Fisher FM-90B in the main. We have an excellent NPR station here in Western Mass, WFCR and its satellites. The play classical daytime 9:00-4:00 with l... | |
| Amps from the 1980's -- What gear holds up sonically? Reliably? Forgot to add .... whether or not the gear has been in frequent use is important to maintaining the condition of passive (and some other) parts. Perhaps as much or more as "brand". | |
| Amps from the 1980's -- What gear holds up sonically? Reliably? Equipment I or my close friends have still in use .... Amber 70 amp (original condition), HK Citation 11 (original condition), Teac 7040 high speed two track tape deck (original condition), Teac 4070 consumer tape deck (just had minor servicing, f... |