mapman
Responses from mapman
| Help/Advice Choosing SS integrated I toss some of the well reviewed Musical Fidelity integrateds into the pot of makes to look at as well. | |
| New vs. old DACs - opinions? Stan,The general trend has to be upward. Its a legitimate question but I don't think the answer is very useful for determining which way to go other than if you shoot blind, the odds say you will probably find the right DAC sooner with new versus ... | |
| tube for mhdt Paradisea Ejlif,I have similar observations regarding my other tube versus stock tube as well. | |
| New vs. old DACs - opinions? Your question is too general.You need to compare specific DACs, old or new.You also need to make sure the DAC, OLD or NEW, fits into you system well, for example, ratio of pre-amp input impedance to DAC output impedance should not be too low. Anot... | |
| Hi-End for Black Metal? " I respect complexity, talent and musicianship of Yes, and I've been to their concert (with Rick Wakeman), but I could never connect emotionally to their music neither."Yeah, Yes' lyrics are not the most accessible and easy to relate to in genera... | |
| Live infectious funk jams....quality recordings Scorpio - Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band | |
| Vintage amps - Carver, Krell For Carver, I believe the later TFM models are higher current and would work better with speaker designs that are more current hungry and have more difficult loads.I had an m4.0t Silver Seven prior to my current Musical Fidelity A3CR. That model d... | |
| What is "rich mans" DL-103? Its funny that "delicate" is a term used to describe high end carts in general. I would argue the same term applies to the sound of some high end digital as well, like DCS.Does that mean that really "rich mans" high end stuff is inherently delicat... | |
| What is "rich mans" DL-103? Is the Audio Technica AT-33PTG low compliance like the 103R and thereby requiring a heavier mass tonearm? If not it might be hard to do an apples and apples comparison between the two using the same table/tonearm.If teh AT is higher compliance, te... | |
| Digital sound is fine, but analog rolled off Why? Assuming stylus and cart and cartridge alignment is in good shape, I'd check into the impedance matching from cart to phono and phono to pre-amp as Tvad suggests as a likely culprit. | |
| What is "rich mans" DL-103? Is the DL-S1 a newer model? HAdn't heard of it before.It appears to have very low output and significantly higher output impedance than the 103, but also higher compliance.I was just listening and enjoying the 103R in my system last night and thin... | |
| Upgrade from Benchmark Dac? I use an inexpensive Monster Power bar filter as Shadorne described on my system. It is the only special power conditioning solution in play and seems to do the job quite well in my case. All digital sources and pre-amp are powered from it (not th... | |
| Upgrade from Benchmark Dac? "I owned the benchmark and went to the Marantz 8260, and gave up a bit more top end air and got more body and weight in the bass."Changing tubes in the mhdt Paradisea can produce similar effects easily for minimal cost. | |
| Trade offs? "...some recordings have no inherent musical qualities...."Comedy recordings I suppose? | |
| Upgrade from Benchmark Dac? " I have at least 3x the cost of the DAC 1 on it's power""Doesn't that strike you as a bit...ah...wacko?"Overkill, maybe. Maybe not. I could see it if power was very dirty to start with and the PC device resolves it. Still, there might be a less e... |