melm
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| INNER GROOVE DISTORTION The idea that you MUST change your current arm or anti-skate adjustment to get rid of inner groove distortion is just ridiculous. I and thousands of others with VPI unipivot arms have been doing just fine with them for a generation or more. I us... | |
| downloading music worth listening to on a computer Hard to tell what it is that you want to download. But in any event, downloading is one step. Playback is another. About the easiest and cheapest way to play back from a computer is with an Audioquest Dragonfly.connected to earphones or any pla... | |
| Is it a good idea to buy CD players over 10 years old even it is a reliable brand? No, It's time to move to the 2020s. Buy a DAC and rip your disks. Better SQ. Don't let mechanical disk playing get in the way of your music. | |
| Maximizing VPI Prime Performance @neonknight If you use the centering disk it should go on perfectly. There should be no "offset." I do it every day with my TTW ring. Did you watch Wayne’s video?@edwyun Phoenix Roadrunner and Eagle is unobtanium. No longer made. Those who have th... | |
| SACD vs DSD Files Have a look here. Then you might want to do a Google search to see what other players will work. I have done it with an Oppo, and after set-up it's very easy. I am not a tech. https://www.stereophile.com/content/music-round-93-minidsp-ripping-... | |
| SACD vs DSD Files The SACD layer on a hybrid disk is a file in the DSD format. With a few exceptions (PS Audio, Others??), a disk player will not output the DSD file from an SACD to an external DAC where that file will sound its best. That's because of restriction... | |
| Maximizing VPI Prime Performance I use a TTWeights periphery ring (together with an old center weight) much like the Wayne’s because my older VPI has a slightly smaller platter and the VPI ring doesn’t fit. Nevertheless I find it much easier and quicker to use than the screw clam... | |
| Upgrade DAC for an Oppo BDP103 Getting an external DAC is surely the way to go. You will get many suggestions. Do your research on this board and elsewhere. You're not restricted to this thread.If you like your SACDs, know that you will not be able to play them through your ... | |
| tube rolling with Schiit Freya + The major heat in the Freya+ does not come from the tubes. The tubes are effectively external with many vent holes surrounding them. The heat comes from a point between between the tubes and the transformers. My best guess, and it is only a gue... | |
| tube rolling with Schiit Freya + Whether or not the Freya+ needs break-in (and I think it needs very little) new tubes need a good deal of break-in to sound their best. NOS need perhaps 50 to 100 hours of use. Current production perhaps half that. The time can be reduced by ju... | |
| VTA Cartridge Your cartridge is attached to a flat plate. That is what should be parallel to the disk as a starting point. Usually, but not always, that plate is parallel to a a linear extension of a line bisecting the upper and lower lines of your conical ar... | |
| Is the Modwright for an Oppo udp205 worth it? There’s nothing you can achieve with a mod that you cannot achieve with a separate DAC which you can run straight from your Oppo. Probably less expensively, better SQ and with way more choices and flexibility. For the price of the mod you can get ... | |
| Schiit Freya + tube rolling Thanks for your advice @wolf_garcia.. Before you wrote I didn't know what to do with my time.Next time a moron asks me a question, I'll just let it go . . . and tend to my mallet. | |
| Schiit Freya + tube rolling @wolf_garcia: "What actually IS its user interface?" Mostly it's the remote control of its volume. The new Freya motorized volume control design using the old cheap remote makes it slower, and tends to overshoot in each direction. May take a f... | |
| Schiit Freya + tube rolling I am enjoying mine too. Cannot believe the performance at this price though its user interface is poor. There is a long Freya tube rolling thread on Head-Fi.But you should probably move this to Amps Preamps forum, if you can. |