jond
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| 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... | |
| I'm considering replacing my passive preamp with a tubes. Is it worth it? I totally agree with jmcgrogan2 it depends but I see some pretty cool tubed preamps for sale here in your price range.https://www.audiogon.com/listings/tube-blue-circle-audio-bc21-1-tube-preamplifier-upgraded-9911-2017...https://www.audiogon.com/l... | |
| Blood Shot Records @sbank If you mean the Asylum Street Spankers no they are a now defunct Texas swing band out of Austin. |