mikelavigne
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| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre Guido, the whole 'zeel' interface involves not only the cables but an engineered 50 ohm interface input and output. so simply having BNC plugs would not be sufficient.i have no idea how much effort it might require to design and build that 50 ohm ... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre David, glad to be here.my use of the word 'zeel' refers to the 50 ohm BNC 'zeel' cable interface which darTZeel and Playback Designs use in place of conventional cables. this offers a few 'system' and 'synergy' performance advantages. they are che... | |
| New Rowland Criterion 2-chassis battery pre I like the Dartzeel very much! What's not to like? My only reservation is that if you go beyond the resolutuion of CD the Dartzeel will have a very very slight masking effect and a tad bit of warmth to the perspective in comparison to the Criterio... | |
| Graham Phantom II + Dynavector XV1's need help reversing the cartridge leads will either confirm or eliminate whether it's a cartridge/arm issue or not.from there you either examine the rest of the signal path or consider the various cartridge and arm issues that have been mentioned.messing ar... | |
| Graham Phantom II + Dynavector XV1's need help the first thing i would do is clearly identify what is out of balance. don't assume anything.play a mono Lp. you know it's got equal outputs on each side.the easiest way to do this is to start with the speakers, then the amp, then the preamp, then... | |
| How large is your music collection? 3500 CD's, 800 SACD's, 40 DVD-A's, 10,000 Lps, 125 RTR tapes....and a music server.music server with about 20 Hi-rez files, another 1500+ Cd's (from my CD collection) on the server. i do plan on expanding my hirez file collection.10,000 Lps; of wh... | |
| Beatles Remasters: Mono vs. Stereo Debate Thread Mapman, yes, i've got all the whole Anthology set and 'Live at the BBC' too. i've not gone thru them in years. when i find the time i'll go thru them and listen to the relevant cuts.....thanks for the suggestion.personally; i value a simple pure r... | |
| Beatles Remasters: Mono vs. Stereo Debate Thread Abruce, i always enjoy room-filling sound. my particular room is quite lively and allows lots of bloom and detail. there is an engagement and immersive aspect to the Stereo versions which i like. OTOH from a performance standpoint the Monos are mo... | |
| Beatles Remasters: Mono vs. Stereo Debate Thread i purchased both the Mono and Stereo box sets on the 9th.....and have been playing around for the last week listening to many of them. the recording notes have been facinating. i've done some comparisons between the mono and stereo versions as wel... | |
| digital front end to rival best vinyl? Nope. a few months ago i did add a server, with 176/24 and 192/24 hirez files. they sound wonderful. much better than redbook.but i likley prefer the best SACD's to the hirez PCM i've yet heard, let alone 'the best vinyl'.....which i have in my sy... | |
| New Beatles remasters for the guys who have mono and stereo,if you had only one choice would you go mono or stereo?i bought both but have only started listening.buy the mono box, and the individual later Stereo discs missing from the Mono box. that will get you closest... | |
| New Beatles remasters Some reviewers have said that the re-mastered Beatles CDs are louder than the originals by a noticeable amount. Is this something that you corrected for in your listening?again; i've only compared new to 80's CD with Abbey Road. in this example th... | |
| New Beatles remasters Jimjoyce,sorry to be so general.....just trying to focus on the musical enjoyment. but to list a few things specifically on the Abbey Road new stereo disc compared to the 80's CD;--much more separation of musical lines for a number of reasons. bet... | |
| New Beatles remasters i purchased both the Stereo Box Set and the Mono Box Set yesterday; but did not start listening till later tonight. So far i've listened to Revolver and Rubber Soul in Mono (my fav early Beatles) and right now i'm listening to Abbey Road in Stereo... | |
| Suggestion of single-box SACD and DAC player there are many choices; do a search for this question.my favorite SACD player/DAC that i have heard would be the Playback Designs MPS-5. it uses an Esoteric disc drive. the MPS-5 has many different digital inputs so can be used from almost any con... |