lowrider57
Responses from lowrider57
| Qubuz feedback and membership Plan Suggestions It went online today in US. I just signed up for the 30 day trial. | |
| Spam Prevention Many thanks. There's been improvement each day on the forum. | |
| CD no more produced? @n80, OK Ebay makes more sense. I agree with you on all points. | |
| CD no more produced? @n80, good plan. I've built up a good Redbook playback. May I suggest looking at Discogs for the best quality used CD's. There is reference material relating to date and country of pressing, record label, original issues, early pressings, remaste... | |
| Refurbished Bluesound Vault 2 The device may operate better on 5gHz due to less traffic; less dropouts, less skips.Most wireless devices around the home/work are using 2.5gHz. It's connectivity, not audio quality. | |
| A DAC that can make digital sound analog? I love R-R tape. I used it for years in studios, I'd love to have it in my home system. I've been told CD transfers sound terrific on tape. | |
| A DAC that can make digital sound analog? Brett, hearing tape hiss on albums from this analague era is a good thing. It means there is minimal compression during the mastering process. With the natural noise floor of the recording intact, we hear the ambience of the room and separation of... | |
| Refurbished Bluesound Vault 2 Some of these units may have been returned to the dealer by customers during the trial period. Then given a clean bill of health for resale.Agree that some Node 2 were returned NIB by dealers in exchange for the newer model. | |
| Small or big tubes/valves for pre amp ? No, don't care for the GTA/GTB's.I ran a single-gain-stage preamp with all brands of NOS 6SN7s and loved them (some more than others). But that design easily revealed microphonics. Using Herbies tube dampers sometimes helped. | |
| A DAC that can make digital sound analog? @larryi is spot on with his assessment of Audio Note DACs. They are NOS with no filtering in the digital or analogue stages. And I agree the mastering is the all-important element in creating digital music. Many original CDs which were transferre... | |
| Finding the right tube preamp (input values) for Mccormack DNA You must take the preamp gain into consideration. In most cases it's not an issue, but CJ preamps have high gain. Find the gain of the actual preamp you're interested in and ask Steve McCormick. | |
| Ever tossed a record aside as poorly engineered and produced only to think otherwise later What do you mean by "limp wristed?" That sounds like an offensive expression. | |
| Small or big tubes/valves for pre amp ? @steakster brings up a notion that I didn't think about; auditioning some preamps. We've only been referring to 6SN7's and the Sachs preamp, but there's a world of tube preamps out there. Many fine 12AU7/ ECC82 based designs in which equivalents c... | |
| Small or big tubes/valves for pre amp ? @grey9hound , I'm using Tung-Sol JAN-6SN7GT, black oval plates/ black glass (1940s). It took Andy a while to find these tubes. He's such a great dealer and asset; I put in an order for the T-S's and he called me when he procured them. They're one ... | |
| Small or big tubes/valves for pre amp ? @gryphongryph , I listen to classical almost exclusively, I hear what you're saying. Good soundstaging and 3D imaging are important to me with orchestral music. And I want enough detail to hear the instruments in a realistic way. I spoke to Don Sa... |