mahler123
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| Jeff Beck, Blues De Luxe The early Rod Stewart was great at phrasing. He had that ability to punch a word in the lyric that got the listener to focus and could elevate the content of the lyrics. Some critics compared him to Sinatra in that regard. His shirts were to... | |
| Jeff Beck, Blues De Luxe If he didn’t like Rod Stewart, why did he hire him? | |
| Streamer Selection - Thoughts Requested Please! OP when you describe a component as well integrated with Apple, what exactly do you mean? | |
| Bryston Support That is better service than I got. I had to pay for my own shipping of the BOT-1, which stopped working after about 2 months | |
| You Can Get Rich From 'Snake Oil'! I believe the class action suit against MoFi was due to them misrepresenting a manufacturing process. Their advertising led one to believe that they never used a digital step in some of their lps. Or is there another class action suit against th... | |
| Bypassing Sony SACD protocols - is it possible? @lalitk If the DAC has HDMI inputs, such as the Bryston DAC3, and can decode DSD, then any SACD player that outputs DSD over HDMI can be used without any other necessary device. The DAC3 has 3 HDMI inputs and I have both a Oppo 105 and a Sony 5400... | |
| Immersive Audio and How to Achieve It Just read the Giles Martin interview in the current issue of Sound and Vision, concerning his Atmos remastering of The Beach Boys Pet Sounds album, and specifically his comments about the song God Only Knows. I haven’t heard the outcome, so I res... | |
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". @thecarpathian +1 | |
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". @roxy54 the old cliche is that people that don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. @onhwy61 As a general history buff, and having had many holocaust survivors and victims in my family, I am pretty “read up” on the subject. I understand... | |
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". There are no winners in Wars, only Losers. The American Civil War was a war where the Civilian Population was targeted to suffer, because doing so hastened the end of the war. The North still had the moral high ground, as Slavery needed to be en... | |
| Bypassing Sony SACD protocols - is it possible? The SACD player should have its own DAC which will then send an analog signal to the preamp section, assuming the streamer/Preamp/DAC accepts analog inputs. If the Sony has a digital out, such as toslink or SPDIF, then you can play the CD layer o... | |
| Nuclues plus bricked Have you tried to reboot? | |
| Is low cost DAC worth it? It’s been years since I heard AirPort Express. My gut feeling is that given improvements in digital over the past decade or so, and the fact that improvements tend to trickle down to the lowest price tiers over time, I suspect that something like... | |
| Ruminations On CD Players @knock1 I second the remark about why certain individuals here that enjoy streaming always feel compelled to tell people inquiring about CD players to junk them . It reminds me of the digital vs. analog debate, with the fanatics lined up on ... | |
| If the DAC is the same, how different do CD transports sound? I have had different transports plugged into the same DAC playing the same CD. Mostly I compared by switching back and forth but one time I enlisted my (very bored) wife to do the switching and write down my impressions. My blind impressions alw... |