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| Best Album Purchase, or Best Evaluating Record best purchase has to be about 300 - 400 classical records, for $300, that contained many mint shaded dogs, Living Presence, and blue Backs (among others)You are so mean :)UnsurpassableI recently bought 70 Deutch Grammaphone classical LPs at $190.... | |
| Anyone know how good MHDT Labs Paradisea DAC is? This is from Rogue. As you see they do not provide input impedance. Do we need to care for something the maker does not provide? Or, am I missing something?- frequency response: 1Hz-200KHz ± 1dB- THD: <0.1%- gain: line stage: 23dB- gain - mm ph... | |
| Anyone know how good MHDT Labs Paradisea DAC is? Here's some spec on impedance of my gears:Linn power amp input impedance: 4700 ohmsRougue preamp output impedance: 350 ohmsParadisea Ouput: 2.0V, < 800 ohmsNAD C541i output impedance: 300 ohmsMarantz DR700: line output is 2Vrms, but no mention ... | |
| A new CDP after my Rega Apollo or a new DAC? the Apollo bests players I have heard that cost five times it's price. I am not quite sure. One of my good friends has Apollo. His system is MC275, PrimaLuna Prolog 3, Apollo, and Klipsch LaScala and Valodyne subwoofer. Mine is Linn AV5105, Rogue ... | |
| who needs a cd player anymore How about LPs and turntables?CD advocates said 20 years ago that LPs would be obsolete. Now, ipod advocates are saying that CDs would be obsolete.Two points raised: 1. The real advantage is not having to search though hundreds of cd and wasting ti... | |
| Anyone know how good MHDT Labs Paradisea DAC is? From the Paradisea spec:Output 2.0V, < 800 ohmsIt appears to have pretty high impedance. If the transport's impedance is much lower, it may not work well with Paradisea and the overall sound would be rather dull (lack of dynamics).The output im... | |
| How do you train your ears? I've been to Sharon's concert twice. She is a goddess in the classical guitar world. She plays a Thomas Humphrey Millennium guitar. Humphrey is one of most renowned and innovative guitar makers in US. He passed away a year ago.Sharon's Rodrigo gui... | |
| How do you train your ears? Could you tell who she was? What makers of guitar she has? I play the classical guitar and own two luthier made guitars, so I wonder. | |
| A DAC to beat NAD C541i? I think most reviews on Paradisea+ are correct: provide warmer sound but lose some detail, except that I did not experience wider sound stage with Paradisea+. DR700 even provides better dynamics. DR700+Paradisea is more pleasant to listen than C54... | |
| A DAC to beat NAD C541i? Any SS DAC would better impedance match with bigger sound, better bass and treble extension? Then probably I would give another shot. Any suggestion?I would expect the similar amount of improvement from Grado gold to AT150mlx. LOL | |
| A DAC to beat NAD C541i? The cable is 1m. Any reason why it has to be 1.5m? I've been looking for a new digital cable and will try one with 1.5m.C541i alone sounds a little bigger than C541i+Paradisea. Yes, I felt a tad bit more dynamics with C541i. But the bigger differe... | |
| A DAC to beat NAD C541i? I got mhdt Paradisea+.After 3 days of continuous play (the seller said that he had used it for about 30 hours), it still sounds pretty much similar to C541i and DR700. Most jazz albums I tried, there is hardly any difference. Some orchestral music... | |
| How do you train your ears? I agree with listening as much live music with real instruments would help. I had purchased several CDs after attending to live jazz concerts, but always it was disappointment to listen to their music on my audio system. There is just no compariso... | |
| AT150mlx price went up Those who bought it a month ago would now realize that they had saved $550 and feel even happier. ;)One more fallen sub $300 cartridge -- Schure V15 Type III (with either VN35MR or VN35HE), which is marginally better than Grado Gold and Clearaudio... | |
| AT150mlx price went up OK. I got a much better deal now, saving $450 (800-350) compared to $250 (500-250) if I had bought it a couple weeks ago. ;-)Initial response: it is a clear winner over my sub $300 clartridges: Clearaudio Aurum Classic Wood, Grado Gold, ADC XLM MK... |