karmapolice
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| upgrade emm labs preamp or speaker??? chrisla,thanks for your input.....you got some great equipment there and a wonderful view from your home. I can't afford the mbl preamp even used (not much less than the dartzeel preamp). Did you hear the Audio Research Ref 3 or the Ayre K1xe? | |
| Rowland Concerto integrated vs Rowland Capri & 102 not sure why you would compress the digital files Rkny when hard drive room on a pc is so cheap these days and you are spending bucks on the preamp/amp? can anyone compare the rowland capri with the ayre k1xe? | |
| upgrade emm labs preamp or speaker??? The question is whether to stick with the emm labs preamp or find something else even more transparent if worth the $ or leave that be and get the additional powered woofer to add to the mm2 making it a mm3 with two powered woofers per speaker ...... | |
| arguments against starting a vinyl collection? I agree that i have to try vinyl at home to really give it a chance so now will wait till right oppty arises where quality used table is available locally that seller might assist setting up for a deal sweetener! | |
| arguments against starting a vinyl collection? One other hesitation to report is that i have heard a heavyweigth vinyl mastered version of my favorite album ok computer converted lossless to cd and did not hear any appreciable difference....This could be related to this album or something gets... | |
| arguments against starting a vinyl collection? Tvad,One other thing about emmlabs and that while expensive the dac unit has a good preamp that has served me well saving me cost of buying a preamp and extra interconnect cableI know i could always upgrade to a better turntable later but i believ... | |
| arguments against starting a vinyl collection? Tvad,Someone else had suggested $8,000 in the thread and i was tentatively agreeing with him.I think emmlabs is great but maybe now there is something equally good or almost as good for less but that won't help me know.Sure i could buy a real basi... | |
| arguments against starting a vinyl collection? tvad,I saw that you like porcupine tree lighthouse sun.....I just listened to it tonite and oh my god it was so yummy......great mastering to in my humble opinion....by the way for other out there, I personally don't believe that any one medium is... | |
| arguments against starting a vinyl collection? I reiterate that I put question marks at the end of the things that were holding me back because of their possibility not as exclamations that this is what I believe to be true!Michael | |
| arguments against starting a vinyl collection? tvad,funny comment there although my wife prefers pinks....michaelp.s. I once traded a pair of tickets to see roger waters box seats for a dinner at melisse and some cash. The dinner was real nice! | |
| arguments against starting a vinyl collection? I did not mean to sound like I am trying to stack the deck against LP just to throw out the things that are potentially holding me back (largely the initial upfront investment for a high quality setup). I don't think there is much point to getting... | |
| arguments against starting a vinyl collection? tvad,are you in los angeles? me too. what is in your system?Michael | |
| arguments against starting a vinyl collection? I guess I should have added what turntable/preamp phone combo rivals the emmlabs digital source class A?thanksMichael | |
| emmlabs into wall outlet or into shunyata hydra? What headphone amp do you use? | |
| emmlabs into wall outlet or into shunyata hydra? talon4,the emmlabs dcc2 preamp and dac are in the same unit but the transport is a separate unit. Are you using the dcc2 only as a dac or are you using the new all emm labs all in one unit cd/sacd player?Michael |