mattsca
Responses from mattsca
| Your favorite obscure song Certainly not obscure for true Elton John fans, but I love Love Lies Bleeding from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. It’s a great workout for my B&W 702S3s. | |
| Why hasnt a turntable manufacturer produced a table with automatic tonearm return/shutoff? I have a Dual CS 529. It’s fully automatic. Sure, it’s not high end. But it ain’t bad and I enjoy it. You can find it at Crutchfield or Audio Advisor - $1399. | |
| Digital Room Correction: Where in the chain? +1 @lloydc that’s exactly my concern. And the MEN220 does not allow digital inputs. The digital is 24/192 in the MEN220, which on the surface sounds reassuring. But still… Thank you @fthompson251 for pointing out the Legacy Audio Wavelet II. That... | |
| Digital Room Correction: Where in the chain? Yes, that’s the ‘only’ way the MEN220 works. And I it does seem most users are quite happy with the results. To rephrase my question - ideally, wouldn’t it be best to do any of that DSP upstream and eliminate the ADA? Is there a good alternative t... | |
| Case in point: a $90,000 power cord by ASUNZ @kennymacc no, you clearly don't get the point. And your invective, ironically, is a lot more "whiny" than the OP's open letter. But whatever...thank you for your attention to this matter. | |
| Case in point: a $90,000 power cord by ASUNZ @gkelly I think you miss the OP’s point. He’s not complaining about the cost of a good per se. He’s complaining about the presence of true snake oil on the market. And I agree, it is insulting and offensive. It mocks our passion. You say he is ... | |
| Qobuz Connect Perhaps unrelated to your Qobuz Connect problem, but I occasionally get a similar stop of play with Qobuz through Roon on my Eversolo A6. But if I play Qobuz directly there is no issue. That makes me wonder if it’s a processor issue with my Nucleu... | |
| Open Reel Curious Okay...two votes for "Run! Run far away!" And one for "Stay curious, but cautious?" Yeah, I’ll keep researching, and thanks for the link, @mgattmch. For the record, my respectable system is Lumin U2 Mini, Denafrips Pontus 15th, Mc C53, Mc MC31... | |
| Your first concert was to see who and when? Elvis Presley - Pontiac Silverdome 12/31/75. Fourth row main floor center. I was 9 1/2 years old. My mom took me - one of my best memories as a kid. I feel like I always “win” this bar talk. :-) But, damn, there are some good ones in this strin... | |
| Native DSD versus DoP Thank you everyone for the responses. I have to admit that I am surprised not to hear an opinion that native DSD is superior to DoP or even hi res native PCM. @ghdprentice, what you say makes a lot of sense - there may be a difference, but it is... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices @stereo5, if I read correctly, your MCD350 is not outputting a true DSD stream, limited to the onboard DAC, or a toslink connection to an external DAC. | |
| What is your audio axiom? Excellent post/topic @2psyop, lots of good stuff here. I am reminded of a favorite piece of advice from Animal House: Boon: I gotta work on my game. Otter: No, no, no, don't think of it as work. The whole point is just to enjoy yourself. | |
| Subwoofer for Klipsch Heresy Thank you both for your suggestions. My Heresys are natural birch, but I may have them finished some time. I do have a pair of REL T/7x on my main system (McIntosh and B&W). Perhaps I’ll move one to this system for a bit to see how it plays. | |
| 15 amp vs 20 amp @ghdprentice, if using powered subwoofers, would you run those through the power condtioner or the same (or different) line as the amp(s)? | |
| I accidentally overcame the Wife Factor Agree, good story, @buellrider97, thanks for sharing! |