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| Magico - a new Mini? Why is a wood enclosure inherently an "unstable material"? I wouldn't take it boating in my 12' yacht, but if I keep it indoors it should be fine, ne c'est pas? i cannot afford the Mini II's, but they certainly are aesthetically pleasing, but the ... | |
| Magico Mini 2 vs Kharma Midi Exquisit vs MBL 101s This question is sightly off-topic, but I have Piega C40s, which to my ears are very good indeed. I wonder if any of you have compared the Piegas with the other speakers in this list. | |
| DAC for FLAC? There is a DAC from Digital Audio Denmark called the AX24 that appears to handle all of these formats, but it is very expensive, and the interface seems to be very complicated. At the high price, there is no driving force for such a purchase. If a... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock The very expensive Linn music servers use an ethernet connection to an NAS drive (as I understand it; i.e., quite imperfectly). Is this intrinsically superior to a USB connection, or is the interface irrelevant? | |
| High End Isolation - HRS, SRA, Active platforms You might look at a company called MinusK Technology. They build isolation platforms for instruments like electron microscopes.Their products are not inexpensive, but they are less expensive than air suspension systems, and MinusK platforms do not... | |
| Silliest audiophile equipment of all time? My vote goes with "donaudio." Until you've heard the Tice clock in your system, you haven't heard anything.I have two, just to be on the safe side: one for inputs and one for outputs. The trick is synchronizing them; for that I have an atomic cloc... | |
| Finding Pure Water for Record Cleaning - very long Hidden in this informative post is the clinker: "bring your own container." A typical audiophile -- i.e. someone who does not work in an environment with scientists who use ultrapure water in some kinds of experiments-- is very unlikely to have a ... | |
| Implications of Esoteric G-0Rb atomic clock This is certainly a naive question, but why can't a CD player store the entire contents of a disc in memory, then send them to the DAC, which would be the equivalent of reading a file from a hard drive? Is that the definition of a music memory pla... | |
| massive brass plate for isolation My sense is that a brass plate would simply transmit vibrations, and perhaps ring into the bargain, as others have suggested. You need Isolation to improve the performance, a slab of any resonant material, absent anything else, will not give you t... | |
| Chamber Music - your best pick. The late Beethoven String Quartets, in my opinion, are at the absolute pinnacle of musical creation in any genre in any period. (Not everyone will agree of course.) If you can find the old Hollywood String Quartet performances of these works, not ... | |
| Amazing Solo Piano Recordings Having just gotten the new Telarc recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations played by Simone Dinnerstein, I would say that it is certainly a terrific performance. Well worth owning. | |
| Blockbuster goes Blu-ray, HD DVD=beta?, Many people, myself included, have older HD monitors that have neither HDMI nor DVI inputs. People with 720p or 1080i displays, by far the majority I would guess, have also been dealt out of the high definition game. Is there any reason why people... | |
| EMM Lab CDSD transport motor resonating I too have had endless problems with the CDSD; it is very noisy on some disks, as other have noted. And, sometimes it takes 20 tries before it will play an SACD. I took the factory's advice and added sound damping insulation inside the case. That ... | |
| best preamp ever - cost is no object The Viola Cadenza is simply superb, outperforming the Cello Audio Suite and Cello Encore preamps in very parameter, and those most assuredly are highly regarded. Whether it is the "best" is an open question to which there is no definitive answer, ... | |
| Best Turntable: Acoustic-Signature, Amazon Refere No one ever mentions Pluto turntables in these discussions. Why is that? They are rare, of course, insanely expensive, etc. They also seem to have garnered high praise from reviewers. I have never seen or heard a system with a Pluto turntable, but... |