hilde45
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| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer @slaw He has the "Charlie Rose" disease. | |
| R2R next? Don't like ESS "@mattw73 Straight wire with gain approach doesn’t interest me as much these days." Agree. A good DAC and good preamp can sure help bring out the sound. Not sure why some folks believe no preamp or a minimalist dac is better sounding. At the r... | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer [The recording of KL] responds very well to my tinkering around with bass and treble on my PEQ-1. I can make it sound excellent. Therefore it is not an inherently bad recording. If we said that a certain brand of ground beef responded well to a... | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer Haven't seen a thread with this much overstated garbage in a long time. Your criticism suffers from the same distemper as the sentence you're criticizing. Kinda invalidates it and impugns you. | |
| Power Amp or DAC - weakest link, help please? I have listened recently to both a Bryston and a Benchmark amp. I have stopped thinking about the DAC's importance so much and have come to think that the amp-speaker combo is where the magic happens, especially if the DAC is sufficiently good. G... | |
| Multiple subwoofers work wonders Good for you! I think of multiple subs in a couple ways: Like room vents for heat — the more you have, the more even the dispersion. Just the temp you want without any fanfare from any particular vent. In terms of cancellation. There were some t... | |
| Tubes and Subwoofers Sure do! I used to connect the subs to a second pre-out on the tube preamp but now I take the signal directly from the amps. Possibly helpful: https://youtu.be/Wo5TwacV7-c?si=jf3xRhWFgk_WD1BX [AI summary: This video provides a comprehensive guid... | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer Um, I quoted Donald Fagen using an expletive to describe his reaction to the great Denny Dias’s guitar solo. It’s an amazing solo and moment. It’s here. Sorry for quoting the word Fagen used. That got my post deleted. Apparently, the "use/menti... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? That Supratek for $1500 looks quite amazing. (Review here: https://6moons.com/audioreviews/supratek/chardonnay.html) Here’s a question, @nightfall -- do you have anyone near you that could fix or upgrade equipment, should you have the need? I hav... | |
| Movie/film suggestions. I've been enjoying a Ken Burns documentary on America and the Holocaust (2022). It's on PBS and other places. | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer What I’ve read is that DBX noise reduction was to blame, not tape machines, but in the liner notes, FWIW, there are no complaints to back this up. The DBX problem -- and a crisis at the time -- is well established. There is still some problemat... | |
| USB Cables: beginning the rabbit hole My own journey proved to me that I upgraded cables too early. There's a good discussion here with a top guy at Benchmark about the order in which to upgrade components and the degree to which upgrades are likely to help. Cables are dead last and a... | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer @boostedis Um, no one has mentioned the lyrics because (a) we know them, (b) the band is named after a sex toy in Burrough's Naked Lunch (go read it), and (c) this is fiction not prurient tabloid fact-bait. As for your mention of "knowing Becke... | |
| Best Used Tube Based Preamp $2k Or Under? This is my last correspondence with Kara (feb 2020). "Thank you for your interest in my products. I am actually taking a sabbatical from audio. I have been building gear solo on my tech bench for 25 years and need a well deserved break. I would ... | |
| New remastering of Steely Dan's Katy Lied review by Fremer I always thought it was something inferior at my end of the food chain I thought that too, but it's endemic to a lot of popular albums unless the artist wrests a lot of control away from the record companies. Part of it seems to be that Fagen ... |