meisterkleef
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| BEST 90's Audio Gear that holds its own today. ARC LS5mkII preamp. | |
| Irving Bud Fried has died Very sad for all us transmission line fans. My Kinetics are based on the IMF line he used to rep, which also served as the basis for many of his own later Fried designs. | |
| Wadia 861 vs. 861 SE Agree with Cenline. I had Wadia upgrade my non-GNSC 860 to 861se about 1.5 years ago. Well worth the upgrade. | |
| Elton John SACD releases Agreed. Captain Fantastic is the gem of this crop. | |
| Upgrade from Polk Audio LSi9's The Paradigm Signature line (I've only heard the S2 monitors)is a completely different animal than their other lines. I wasnever a Paradigm fan myself. Always felt the bass was neverquite right, a little thick and overdone, in their Ref/Studioline... | |
| Upgrade from Polk Audio LSi9's You listened to the Paradigm Signature S2 and didn't come awayimpressed? Wow. I've heard this speaker in many differentsystems and can't imagine much better sound in a monitor atany price. $2k new. Right in your range.I have Polk RTi28s in my bedr... | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... Lagavulin 16yr for my "everyday" with an occasional Springbank12yr if I'm looking for something a little lighter. Wow havethe Springbanks really increased in price recently? I have anuncracked bottle of a 1977 single-cask Bruichladdich fromCadenhe... | |
| "Audiogon" Music Reviews at last Nice call on the 'Hearts and Bones' review. I have it on CDfrom back when it was first released. Still the Paul Simondisc I reach for when I'm in that kind of mood. The sonics onthe original release are not so bad as to want to make me buythe rema... | |
| Rogue Audio has released a new line I love Rogue...Rogue Ales that is!!! I think Rogue Audio'snext lineup should have names like "Shakespeare Stout monos"or "Dead Guy Ale integrated" with coupons for a free case ofthe Rogue Ales namesake.Maybe a merger of the two? The synergies are ... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? Vertically biamped ARC D400mk2 amps with that LS5.... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? with an ARC LS5mk2 preamp. Tube/SS heaven for almost 9 yearsnow with not a single itch for change. Only music matters now. | |
| Denon DV-2200 vs 2900 The 2900 has discrete DSD dacs. There is no DSD->PCMconversion it is done in native DSD. Not sure about the 2200.I've owned a 2900 for about a year now and I find SACD andDVD-A playback to be very fine with the 2900. CD playback isjust OK but t... | |
| Denon 2910 and 3910 upsample redbook?? I have to nit-pick with Alex a bit, although I think he basically has it down. The term "upsampling" applies to any interpolation method that injects additional samples into the 44.1kHz data stream BEFORE DIGITAL FILTERING. This same process is ca... | |
| Candidates for Re-mastering? Jax2 - I have the DCC remastered version of 'Blue' on CD and it is so obviously better than my ancient non-HDCD original CD release. My original CD copy dates back to the mid-80s. I cannot speak to the quality of any remasters other then the DCC. ... | |
| Audio Research LS-5 & Pass X250, good match? The LS5 mk1/mk2 have 10 tubes each while the mk3 replacedthe 2 input tubes with FETs and count went to 8. The mk2/mk3use the 6922 tube while the mk1 uses both the 6922 (6) and12bh7 (4) tubes. The REF1/REF2 preamps are very closelybased on the LS5m... |