mapman
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| Guilty Pleasure recording? The Three Dog Night hits all are classics and great works of pop/rock art. Nobody should feel guilty appreciating them. There are a lot of great tunes out there by acts that perhaps could not assemble a single great accompanying album and hence go... | |
| A good power conditionner with tube amps ? "Not just my experience, read the threads, this has been gone over many times before. IMO, power conditioners are for everything BUT the amplifier."This is not intuitive to me.How or why does it negatively affect the amplifier's sound? | |
| 840C and MHDT Havana Timnaim,My question was;"What is it specifically that the Reimyo does much better than the Havana?"...not the other way around. | |
| Best sounding Krell ? I am somewhat ambivalent regarding Krell. I have heard some very good value systems demo'ed with Krell amplification recently and some other overly expensive systems that totally fell flat.Maybe part of the problem is that those who sell Krell are... | |
| Audio Research sp 16 or sp 17? Volume steps not an issue. None of my speaks are particularly efficient.I do notice that the the remote seems to increase 1 light level which equates to multiple steps at a time whereas the control on the unit increases 1 step at a time.The differ... | |
| 840C and MHDT Havana "is there any negative effect or loss in sound quality feeding 24/96 data to a 16-bit DAC (like the Havana)"It depends on the resolution of the source files being served.If they come from CDs, then I would expect not assuming everything is working... | |
| Audio Research sp 16 or sp 17? The sp16 went in last weekend and is sounding fabulous in the early going.I am very impressed! | |
| Foobar 2000 or MediaMonkey v.3? I use WMP ripping to loss-less .wav format on Windows Vista as the server in my rig. It is fast, easy, reliable and ripped CDs sound as good as original. You definitely want to run the latest XP versions if possible for best results.I also have an... | |
| A good power conditionner with tube amps ? I get good results with a $200 Monster Power strip I've used for several years. Its an inexpensive option to try that makes a clear difference that can be heard. I have finicky ears when it comes to clean sound and I haven;t convinced myself I nee... | |
| 840C and MHDT Havana Timnaim,What is it specifically that the Reimyo does much better than the Havana? | |
| 840C and MHDT Havana Regarding "sheen", I would expect a SS DAC to mesh better with tube amplification like in Beerad's case.If SS amplification is used with a SS DAC, the results might be more "sheeny", but to me this is not necessarily a bad thing....its a matter of... | |
| Shout out for Neil Young's Sugar Mountain Live LP My understanding is that Neil Young has withheld many re-issues of older material on CD over the years because he is often not satisfied with the sound quality of many newer CD releases.Young is a stickler for doing things the way he believes is r... | |
| 840C and MHDT Havana I have an MHDT Paradisea and have been very pleased with the tube DAC sound in my system so far.Assuming the Havana behaves similarly to the Paradisea, one advantage of the mhdt tube DACs is that you can tweak the sound inexpensively if desired us... | |
| Best Neil Young Album? One of my favorite and well recorded lesser known Neil songs is El Dorado off his "Freedom" album. | |
| Guilty Pleasure recording? Playing on Crik Fm The Lnyx Super 70's this very moment as I speak;Reunion - "Life Is A Rock, But the Radio Rolled Me"Guilty as charged...... |