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| Anyone use a DVD player as a front end? Janeb: You'll have to forgive me, but after looking at your system and your date of registration, I really have to ask if you really own all this stuff or are just having fun with everyone here (ie. trolling)? By my calculations, not including a f... | |
| Anyone use a DVD player as a front end? I think the original poster was referring to using a DVD player through its analog outs for CD playback, not as a transport with a DAC, but perhaps I misundersood. | |
| Anyone use a DVD player as a front end? I've used two DVD players since 2000 in my system, replacing and selling an Arcam Alpha 8SE at that time because, in my system the DVD players either equalled or outperformed it. And, of course, at a substantially lower price.The first player was ... | |
| What is "rich mans" DL-103? 103R + wood body + Soundsmith retip. I'm 2/3 of the way there and eventually one of the two 103R's I have here will go to Soundsmith.Although I haven't heard it, the description of the Zu is not surprising to me. I would expect that it excels at d... | |
| New2Analog - Table Setup Help? Close to state of the art cleaning can be had for under $200 with a KAB EV-1 (if you already have a vacuum in the house), a couple of carbon fibre brushes, some RRL Super Deep and high purity water that you can source for next to nothing at a medi... | |
| Anybody heard of Girard turntables? Many of the Garrards are nothing to write home about but they did build a couple of tables which have a bit of a reputation. If you can find one of these sitting around in an attic or basement somewhere for $30 or $40 you'll probably have a pretty... | |
| re: phono preamps; is vintage ss any good? Loydc: I don't have any experience with the specific DB Systems preamp you are using but did use for a few years David Hadaway's DB 8HG for low output moving coils and still have his standard DB 8 standard phono pre for moving magnet in use in a 2... | |
| More convinced of analog than ever Personally, I fail to see anything remotely resembling "snobbish tone" in the original post. | |
| More convinced of analog than ever "Yawn. Sure. Hang on ...let me grab some popcorn. Repeat everyone all together now the mantra.... "Analog is good, no matter how cheap. Digital, no matter how expensive, is always bad."To which I respond: Yawn. Why does this statement not have muc... | |
| Collecting Blue Note Jazz "Keeping the hot stamper prices down". Isn't that a bit of an oxymoronic statement?Seems I missed this thread completely as I was away for a few days around New Years (ironically, listening to Donald Harrison, who used to play with Art Blakey, at ... | |
| More convinced of analog than ever I'm curious with respect to the Ayre prototype table; I know that Ayre has a very strong committment to balanced operation in their electronics. Did the table/tonearm lead happen to utilize a balanced configuration? | |
| binding post break in I'll throw in two more possibilities:1) the binding posts actually do "burn-in" (although this one has really already been floated by the original poster)2) the new binding posts were cryo treated by the manufacturer. #2 I actually have a fair bit... | |
| Your expertise is needed Golden: Just curious as to which cartridges you are using?Thanks. | |
| Your expertise is needed Don't ask me to explain the technical side of it (I'm only spewing out what I've read about current mode phono preamps as I own the Aqvox), but current mode phono preamplifiers like the Nibiru, Aqvox and Dynavector in phono enhancer mode use a typ... | |
| best cartridge for phono aqvox I agree with Ducati that lower impedance low ouput moving coils might be the best choice with the Aqvox. In reading between the lines in the various reviews almost all of the cartridges that reviewers raved about as sounding great with the Aqvox w... |