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| Which is better - Hi end CD transport or Music server into DAC? The best that can happen here is that each person can relate their own experience. In my case ripped CDs on a HD sound better played through a simple ASUS laptop via USB than they did played directly through an Oppo 105 by spdif.As @ejr implied, ... | |
| What software to play .dsf or dsd files for Windows 10? I use Jriver. It has had, for me, a long learning curve.But, it will play .dsf files pretty easily. Seems it can sense the ability of the DAC involved to play natively or not. Out of one computer it goes to a DAC that can, out of another it goe... | |
| FYI if thinking about adding a Single Motor Flywheel to a VPI Prime I use a SMFA with a VPI TNT. I highly recommend any flywheel, physical or electric (as in SDS or equivalent). Each such addition has made a discernible difference in the SQ.That being said, and given that the Prime is currently VPI's biggest sel... | |
| VPI TNT Mk 3 – Looking for a tonearm and cartridge One thing that helped when I used silk thread is to spray it with spray adhesive. It will slip less. | |
| A question of Azimuth setting up turntable There has been so much said and written about the Foz meter's failings that I personally stay away.IMO if you buy an expensive cartridge (say, more than $700 or so) I would not accept it unless the stylus by a very careful examination by eye and b... | |
| VPI TNT Mk 3 – Looking for a tonearm and cartridge The platter is 20 lbs and 1 3/8" thick. It’s not actually lead 'lined". That connotes something thin. The lead is a thick slab of metal forming a flat ring underneath the platter. The ring weight, by the way, extends well past the platter perimet... | |
| VPI TNT Mk 3 – Looking for a tonearm and cartridge "Shame me enough and I will probably relent ;)" Well, I'll do my best.I have an original TNT with the lead lined acrylic platter. Wouldn't change that for anything. I have faith in the non-inverted bearings; mine is a Mark V.A couple of years a... | |
| XMOS XU208 Or Amanero USB? These seem to be USB "bridges". You want USB in; what do you want out?Each of these cards requires a power supply.Do you have a DAC that you want it to bridge to?What do you have? What is your budget?I have an Amenaro card built into my DAC. It'... | |
| VPI TNT Mk 3 – Looking for a tonearm and cartridge "I don't run SDS with the silk drive and know that speed is off a couple of percent as a result but live with it as I feel that consistent speed is more important than absolute speed (within reasonable limits)."IMO for a set-up of such quality you... | |
| BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors @rauliruegas,I wouldn’t call someone ignorant because he takes a different point of view than you do. There is no one "correct" way to set HTA. There is no consensus on what theoretical distortions can be heard. There’s no consensus as to whether ... | |
| BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors Has anyone tried the DB Systems protractor?This is an old design that is intended to align the cartridge, and then is most useful only if the cartridge has straight, square sides.It does not align the cantilever. That would be considered a fatal ... | |
| VTA and Subsequent SRA of Grado reference Platinum 1 cartridge Generally when you lower towards the rear, what we call "tail down," you lose the high frequencies and gain bass.I suggest you run it flat for a while to break it in. Then, if necessary you would raise the tail if you found it treble deficient. | |
| BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors This issue of horizontal tracking angle (HTA) is an interesting one. There is no single correct setting for a pivoted offset arm. This is unlike azimuth where there is an unambiguously correct setting and we all try to get as close as possible. ... | |
| BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors lewm, You may enjoy using an expensive over-engineered device, but if you think that with your $800 machine you get a more precise alignment than I with my Cart-a-lign, you're deluding yourself. Eventually you, like I, have to set the cantilever ... | |
| BaerWald vs VPI setup protractors lewm, first of all, all we are trying to do is set a tangent at two different radii. It is not brain surgery. When you wrote, "This is why Mint protractors are made one by one for each tonearm." it seemed you were ascribing greater precision to th... |