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| Review: Wadia 581i CD Player Thanks so much for this review.I like reviews like this where the only difference is the units being tested. Different interconnects are an issue perhaps still in this case but if this is by design because each player is judged to work better with... | |
| Record you spin on a rainy Saturday w/ family gone Today:Gypsy Passion (Andre Kostelanitz on lovely Columbia stereo vinyl.Donovan Greatest Hits (CD)Terrapin Station Grateful Dead (so-so original 70's vinyl) | |
| Review: Denon DL 103R Cartridge Anybody have any suggestions on how to easily and reversibly increase tonearm mass as an experiment with the Linn for the Denon?I've considered experimenting with wrapping a lead solder strand or strands around the tonearm. | |
| Okay......best single box reference CD player Anyone ever heard the Electrocompaniet Emc 1-UP or compared it to some of the gold standard players mentioned? | |
| Small room, "budget priced" speaker advice, please knownothing,I've toyed on occasion with the idea of replacing my Dynaudios, which are a pretty decent set of highly accurate monitors, with Ohm micros. Reason being that they are a very good monitor speakers that do most everything very well, but ... | |
| Moody Blues "Question of bal." CD or SACD vs Vinyl No. Unfortunately I do not have a SACD player.I think I noticed on Amazon though yesterday that there is yet another new series of Moody classic 7 remasters with bonus material available for pre-order and coming out soon? I'll be curious to hear w... | |
| Small room, "budget priced" speaker advice, please Knownothing,Ohms, omnis and other more exotic speaker designs are not for everyone, for sure. Its largely a matter of taste. For ~$1000, though, they do offer something completely different than the various box designs available in that range. | |
| Small room, "budget priced" speaker advice, please Yes. I've owned Ohms since ~ 1978 and currently have 3 pair, Walsh 5 Series 3, Walsh 100 Series 3 and Ohm Ls. Also own Dynaudio and Triangle. Also owned Maggie and B&W in the past.Never heard Micro Walshes specifically but have researched them... | |
| Small room, "budget priced" speaker advice, please If you think a live performance would sound good in your room, and are up for trying something a little different in order to achieve live-like sound from a small, affordable design, and like the idea of saving a couple c-bills perhaps, definitely... | |
| Review: Playback Designs MPS-5 CD Player At a glance, the write up does indicate that the reader component is where the re-read occurs, which makes sense.The key benefit of a music server though is to enable easy access to large amounts of music rather than having to swap CDs. I doubt th... | |
| Review: Playback Designs MPS-5 CD Player "My understanding is that in transfer the program re-reads the optical drive rather than "correcting" the error with a logarithm, except as a last resort."That could only help and not hurt. You don't have to have a server storage device in the pic... | |
| Review: Playback Designs MPS-5 CD Player "Mike, I understand the advantage of a server or harddrive-based system is the lower error rate in reading a hard drive vs. an optical transport reading a CD or SACD" Doesn't the content originate on CD and get read through optical drive prior to ... | |
| Okay......best single box reference CD player Can't disagree with Emigene. | |
| speakers for classical music Guido, sorry for the off-point commentary on my part Your choice of words to describe the work mentioned by Atmasphere just struck a silly bone in me.Cheers! | |
| speakers for classical music "quantitatively, a most impressive work"I must give this a listen. Surely must sound better in digital/CD format than in phono/analog!!! I'd also like to run a sum check on the file and compare the total to other works!!!!Now I think I've discover... |