knownothing
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| Cartridges: Complete Scam? Madavid0, I suggest you attend a music matters demo or one of the big audio trade shows where gear makers, sellers and reviewers have set up high end analog systems including state of the art cartridges in front of other outstanding equipment and ... | |
| Need upgrade from Denon 1520 and better DAC My quick response on sound of various brands listed:Oppo 105/105D - really clear upper registers, good spatial representation, decent bassArcam - bit warmer mids, voices. Good treble extension and bass, but maybe not the nth degree of sparkle and ... | |
| Need upgrade from Denon 1520 and better DAC Denon 3XXX or 5XXX universal players are a possible solution, although have not heard those in long time or compared to current or recent crop of uni players mentioned already. In any case older better Denons could at very least serve as solid uni... | |
| Need upgrade from Denon 1520 and better DAC Arcam CD37, CDS27 or UDP411.Cambridge Audio universal player also possible choice. | |
| Need upgrade from Denon 1520 and better DAC SACDs. You need a universal player/transport in your chain. I would suggest a used Oppo 105 or 105D. You don’t need all the video elements, but it has good two-channel DAC. Can be had for under a grand. All needs in one box. Another choice is... | |
| USB Cable Comparison Audience / Cardas / Purist / Stealth / Wireworld This may or may not be helpful RE cable length for USB since this article is focused on S/PDIF.https://positive-feedback.com/Issue14/spdif.htmI would suggest reaching out to Steve Nugent who posts here as audioengr | |
| USB Cable Comparison Audience / Cardas / Purist / Stealth / Wireworld Plus 1 for @t_ramey @david_ten excellent review chain. Thanks for sharing. | |
| Need upgrade from Denon 1520 and better DAC What are you planning to use the new gear for, spinning CDs only, or CDs plus other digital formats like streaming digital files from a server or computer? If the former, you could get away with a very good used Redbook CD player, and life would ... | |
| Current recording engineers - what cables used? @douglas_schroeder Thanks for the props on the thread. Trying hard to cast more light than heat on these issues.kn | |
| Current recording engineers - what cables used? mok, charlienyc, and buckhorn_cortez, thanks for your contributions. Great to get perspective from the folks who are recording the music that we try so hard to reproduce faithfully. Some comments based on your input:1. There are a lot more variab... | |
| Most Important, Unloved Cable... So what do you make of this interview, taken from another thread, in the context of the current discussion?http://www.davidgilmour.com/press/2005/march/TapeOp_March05.pdfIt is a rather long but good read on a number of levels.Seems the studio mana... | |
| Current recording engineers - what cables used? Uh, @shadorne the studio tested 20 different cable types before settling on Van Den Hul, then they bought 23km. Is that paranoia, or just being thorough? Is testing the directionality of the earth ground paranoia or just being thorough? I guess... | |
| Current recording engineers - what cables used? Another interesting takeaway from the interview @maplegrovemusic posted is that according to the studio manager, digital cables matter a lot. This is a subject of special torture well down the lower rungs of cable forum hell here on Agon, and it ... | |
| Current recording engineers - what cables used? All, thanks again for your input. Not sensing overwhelming participation in this thread by active recording and mastering engineers, but perhaps they are not generally on this forum.@shadorne , thanks for sharing video of studio so well described... | |
| Current recording engineers - what cables used? I appreciate the posts so far. 23 kilometers of cables @maplegrovemusic , golly. Anybody have an answer for @chrisr ? |