mahler123
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| Bryston BDA-3 / Benchmark DAC3B I hated the Bryston BDP3 due to Manic Moose. It sounds great but the frustration will make you miss the Node. At your budget I would get a Cambridge Audio DAC streamer . They just upgraded the DAC section to an ESS chip. The Stream Magic app... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices I posted our exchange in an Oppo Facebook group. Without bruising your feelings, I’ll just summarize by saying that people were in disbelief at your comments. Let me just say that the best experiences I have had in audio appreciation have been ... | |
| Mono recordings and my new respect for them The sixties classic rock early stereo releases were problematic. | |
| AXPONA 2025 @jayctoy where do you live? I am in the Oak Park area | |
| AXPONA 2025 You are on, Calvin. Unless I’m getting my other knee done then. I’ve always preferred Stereo to Mono | |
| AXPONA 2025 Hi Calvin . I live in Chicago and would have loved to have met you. I’m having knee surgery on Tuesday and didn’t think I could do the show this year. Next year hopefully. Question- not wanting to get into politics here-but have you heard an... | |
| Is it possible to find a good DAC for under $50, 000? TAS. The magazine that told us when MQA was released that everyone’s DAC was now obsolete. They clearly cater to the one percenters, and that’s fine, but they are so disparaging of excellent and comparatively affordable equipment that I just fin... | |
| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening After I sold my P5 I remember reading an article in one of the British HiFi Mags that they had tested several Rega tables and that they averaged around 35 rpm. My P5 dealer sold se some external gizmo for another $400 that was supposed to guara... | |
| Music streaming Cambridge Audio streamers support Chromecast . I just bought a Wiim Pro for $109 that does as well. It isn’t hard to find | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices Look in the mirror | |
| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening It depends on the genre. I had many pop lps back in the day that were under 20 minutes. I remember being astounded when my tastes switched to classical and discovered many LPs that were 3 times that length. However even in Classical one could g... | |
| Get yer Alice at Axpona I think I bought the LP for $3 back then. I played it on my parents all in one stereo from KMart that probably cost (?) $40 at the time. I doubt that hearing it on a $28K R2R would give me anywhere near the pleasure unless it could also rechar... | |
| Been an avid HT listener If you like what you are hearing currently, tell me again why you feel the need to change? I haven’t heard a 2 channel receiver since 1998 so I can’t help you there. My bias would be to get an integrated amp unless you really need the analog t... | |
| The Sacred Ritual of Vinyl: A Return to Mindful Listening After being with a bunch of millennials for a few days it occurred to me that one reason that some of them have embraced vinyl is their limited attention spans. The vinyl ritual causes them to focus their attention for about a minute as they load... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices https://www.oppodigital.com/blu-ray-udp-205/ scroll to specifications-output |