jond
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| Need Help Ripping My CD Collection reubent,I ripped about 800 cds to my internal drive in batches and then transferred those to an external HD via USB. I've since transferred all of that drive to a NAS and play back through an Auralic Aries Mini outputting to my AN dac. I've accumu... | |
| Best budget integrated choices Well looks like that Marantz 8003 sold but I am sure other good integrateds will come up for sale. | |
| Need Help Ripping My CD Collection Yes to flac and I had great success using the cd-rom drive in my laptop and dbPoweramp ripping software. Super easy to use and inexpensive! Good luck! | |
| break in I personally don't really pay attention to break in, I pretty much need to have my system playing from the time I get home til the time I go to bed unless I'm watching something. So if i drop a new piece in and don't love it I let it play for a fe... | |
| Best budget integrated choices If you're ok with used, and at your budget you should be, this looks like a good deal and Marantz is typically voiced on the warm side:https://www.audiogon.com/listings/solid-state-marantz-pm-8003-integrated-amp-price-reduced-2017-02-0... | |
| Watch out boys,there's a new game in town! Wow cool indeed! Not sure I would put one of my records on that thing but its very innovative! | |
| 845 As long as the pins are there and intact you are fine that is just a guide to help you place them more easily. | |
| What CD player/transport has the most stable mechanism? Probably Esoteric, their evolution of the legendary Teac VRDS cd drive. Here are some pictures for you to see just how robust they are:http://http//www.6moons.com/audioreviews/esoteric18/transports.pdf | |
| Amps Atma-Sphere M-60 Mono blocks OTL design ozzy took a look at your pics nice job on the new speakers! Congrats on your new amps also, I've only heard atma-sphere amps once, at the Capitol Audiofest this summer, and the sound was fantastic. I am sure you will be very happy and finding out ... | |
| How old is too old for a Dac? Charles,Glad you chimed in and its pretty funny I wasn't looking for a new dac, love the YDA-1, and still do, I put what I thought was a silly low bid in on an auction here and was totally shocked when I won and had a new dac on the way! So I want... | |
| How old is too old for a Dac? @lowrider57 ah well that makes much more sense and I would agree in fact generally speaking I think budget gear, not just Dacs, do sound better than they used to. Cheers. | |
| How old is too old for a Dac? " Also, I think today’s designs have better analogue stages than older DACs. This may be the reason for the most dramatic difference in performance between DACs. This allows a more natural presentation, even the budget models."@lowrider57 just cur... | |
| What is most important part of a system? @cymbop pretty sure a phono cartridge is a transducer so you agree with the OP? :-) | |
| Shout Out to Zu Audio's customer service Cool great to hear that, I loved their room at Cap Audio Fest, an oasis of chill good music and good sound. | |
| How old is too old for a Dac? Well let me see I just put an Audio Note Dac 3 Signature in my system and it sounds fantastic! It was built in 1995 making it 22 years old. It is certainly as good as, and I am starting to think better than, my Yamamoto YDA-1 a highly regarded Dac... |