metralla
Responses from metralla
| Perhaps we should stick with midfi... Go back to the dealer where you spent your $60k and work with him/her until the system meets your expectations. It should knock your bloody socks off for that sort of cash.Regards, | |
| Best Late Night Low Volume Speaker My feeling is that this is best achieved by reasonably efficienct speakers and low wattage amps. I have Coincident Super Eclipse (94db/w/m) and 300B-based SETs and listen a lot at low volumes - I'm an apartment dweller. Obviously you have to avoid... | |
| APL Hi-Fi NWO-4.0SE CD Player Review Alex Peychev writes:For example, the AKM DACs in the NWO process audio data at 141 times higher than the regular 44.1kHz CD sampling rateIt's hard for an amateur such as myself to know what this statement really means.(SACD - 1 bit representation ... | |
| DAC to match $2-3K CD player I would want to include the APL DAC-S in my considerations.http://www.aplhifi.com/index.php?op=DAC_SRegards, | |
| Upgrade rack before Vibration Control? I think the rack should be THE vibration control/isolation product.Regards, | |
| California Audio Show ths wknd bttr than expected That was a good one. The duet with Anouar Brahem on oud and another musician on a bass clarinet. CD - ECM 2075.Regards, | |
| Review: Vaughn Loudspeakers Cabernet Speaker The review was also posted at Audio Asylum, where the model, price, description go into the top part of the review form when you submit. That could explain the omission.Model: Cabernet Category: Speakers Suggested Retail Price: $8495 Description: ... | |
| Tripoint Spartan That certainly must have taxed your patience. I'm happy that the unit has finally revealed its potential.(Nothing similar, but the Sony SCD-XA5400ES I bought exhibited an equally long break-in)Regards, | |
| Tidal Sunray vs Gryphon Trident Geopolitis, I agree with you. Significantly ahead.Regards, | |
| Is the Sony xa5400es better than scd-1? Okonrad writes:Now I suspect if you had a full VSE Level 7 modification done to the SCD-1 it would be competitive with my modded 5400, but barring that, its just not even close.I visited Allen Wright in Schaffhausen and compared his level 7 SCD-77... | |
| AMR / EMM / PLAYBACK Designs Wow, that's not good. I hope emmlabs will quickly release new firmware to fix that bug. Hard to believe, really.Regards, | |
| Graham Phantom B44 2 or Taela ? The violin bow tonearm /piano base 'table was on display at the Munich High End Show, downstairs in one of the "Halles". It was a static display, although the designer was there and one could talk to him. It wasn't in a glass case, so you have a d... | |
| Experienced audiophiles best speaker At the recent Munich High End Show I was impressed with the TAD Reference 1 and the Tidal Sunray. There were many great speakers on display, but those two made the most impression.I was also very pleased with the Focal Grande Utopia - for unknown ... | |
| Best high-efficiency speaker under 10K Also consider Coincident Speaker Technology in Canada. If you trust reviews, Stereo Mojo loved the Super Victory. They are $9500, so maybe too pricey for you. http://www.stereomojo.com/CoincidentSuperVictorySpeakerReview/CoincidentSuperVictorySpea... | |
| Best sounding Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" It's not been made obvious.One of the web sites selling the new SHM-SACDs published the genesis of the sources used, and in most cases they were tapes from Universal's vaults in Japan. One would expect that the CDs have the same basic model. One s... |