mahler123
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| Objective Data re: Record Cleaning It seems to me that the particles that will interfere with playing may be so small that frequently their mass may be immeasurable. A vey tiny piece of dust may become wedged in a groove at just the right angle to deflect a cartridge temporarily. ... | |
| Pianos I have a Samick upright. My teacher has a Grand by the same manufacturer and when I start my lesson I’m always startled at the difference. Steinways are my favorite, the best combination of gorgeous midrange, deep but not overpowering bass, an... | |
| Pianos Fazioli is a good choice. Angela Hewitt used to travel with her own and it was famously destroyed by New York dockworkers a few years ago | |
| Objective Data re: Record Cleaning I don’t think that weighing records pre and post will tell us much. Since these particles are so small I am not sure how useful studies showing more or less sub 100 micron particles have been removed are. It might mean something but it would be ... | |
| Are REL the most Musical Subs? So I added a REL T9x to my basement HT 2 days ago. I wound up placing it in the same location that the former Paradigm sub occupied. It’s early days but so far I am very pleased. Every thing sounds better, not just the bass. I am seriously c... | |
| SACD Players It looks like a FW connection with 8 pins. As I mentioned such a connection can sound very impressive. Both my above mentioned players sounded much better that I would have expected from AVRs and other components inputting by conventional means ... | |
| SACD Players What kind of a connection is that between the 2 McIntosh components? I used to have a Sony SACD player that had a proprietary connection to a Sony AVR and then later a Pioneer Elite DVD/SACD player with a similar link to a Pioneer AVR. These li... | |
| SACD Players Magnetar universal players are basically the successor to Oppo. I believe the company was founded by the Oppo engineers that designed their UDPs. Their menus are identical to Oppo and you can either play the SACD with the internal DAVs or use them... | |
| CD Player: Vintage or modern ones? Budget? DACs have improved quite a bit since the dawn of the CD era. This would include the the DACs contained in CDPs. it’s unclear to me if the OP streams currently. If he does not and is interested in doing so then a streaming DAC with a CD... | |
| Receiver Are there receivers that go for $10K? Is the OP discussing 2 channels only or does he have the SFs in multichannel or Atmos? Suspect an answer won’t be forthcoming | |
| Time to make a change ? Fwiw the Stream Magic app for CA will return you to your prior position as long as you don’t sign out. You can also access the queue and pull up your last listens and then leap from there back to your last place in the stored files. | |
| What are the best subwoofers you have heard for music. Speed, Musicality and integration @calvinj i started a REL thread in the speakers forum a few weeks ago. In a few days I will have a T9x installed in a secondary system | |
| HiFi satisfaction and/ or Musical enjoyment It’s inevitable that in these Forums certain topics will reappear with regularity. Thee OP has however written a thoughtful post and I don’t like seeing the incoming that he drew. I hope he sticks around and continues to contribute. I was out... | |
| A question about the Bryston BDA-3's HDMI inputs I had bought the BDA-3 precisely for its ability to play the DSD from SACD over HDMI. I use an Oppoo 105 to output theDSD. I believe that @cleeds is correct here | |
| AA for us @grislybutter sorry to hear that audio has become an obsession for you and that the fun factor has been replaced by fallout from that. I think travel is great. I am in Europe now and for the last week my internet reception was terrible. It’... |