mikelavigne
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| Tape Project Tapes Peter,i appreciate your perspective that RTR can/does exceed the performance of a top tt. i have invested in aquiring a couple of the top RTR machines, the ATR-102 and Studer A-820, thinking that properly set up and with the proper output electron... | |
| Tape Project Tapes Sorry i'm late to the party here; i am a Charter subscriber to 'The Tape Project'......and have 6 of their releases so far.i am a format junkie; i had always heard that however much i thought vinyl was the best format that master tapes could go to... | |
| Magico Mini 2 vs Kharma Midi Exquisit vs MBL 101s Alectiong,the Mini's don't use a ceramic driver. (after re-reading your post i may have mis-interpreted your comments, you may not have intended to say the Mini had a ceramic driver, so i added this note) the original Mini used titanium in a const... | |
| Next upgrade, DartZeel or Ayre Bar 81,i took no offense and don't think you intended offense by your comment;5) Note that Mike is using a system almost fully comprised of gear that comes from one dealer that has I'm sure made sure the voicing is ideal.OTOH your comment does inf... | |
| Magico Mini 2 vs Kharma Midi Exquisit vs MBL 101s i would add the Marten Coltrane to that list. it's very similar to the Kharma in character, price and quality.i had the original version of the Kharma Midi Exquisites in my room for 5 months three years ago; it's an excellent speaker; very natural... | |
| Next upgrade, DartZeel or Ayre Semi, i have only heard the Ayre amps at shows and dealers; never in my system. they are very good. i don't really feel i can comment on exactly how they compare to the dart without some sort of head to head.i do have lots of experience with the d... | |
| Okay......best single box reference CD player Mike I agree with you about the other DACs but EMM LABS still has the best SOTA DAC which can also be updated through the USB port. As everyone knows, differences between great cd players are very subtle and it takes great experience with hi-end, ... | |
| Okay......best single box reference CD player i suppose it is hard to isolate performance to just the DAC; but i do think that my perception of the performance advances of the Playback Designs is likely due a great deal to it's unique DAC design.the DAC in the Playback Designs MPS-5 has an op... | |
| Review: Playback Designs MPS-5 CD Player Dave, my son and i have spoken about where the server should be. we have CAT-5 wired to both sides of my room in the barn as well as draft 802.11n WiFi in the barn and house. i also have a conduit from my listening room to the attic that my air li... | |
| Review: Playback Designs MPS-5 CD Player Satyam, regarding a music server into the Playback Designs verses the transport....let's say we are talking redbook here. i read about how servers will out do transports; but i have yet to speak to anyone who has actually had that experience. sinc... | |
| Review: Playback Designs MPS-5 CD Player hi Satyam,i was working (actually my network engineer son) on putting together a music server to use thru the Playback Designs. we were considering the various sound cards and connection choices. it turns out that most of the connections have limi... | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital Shadorne, your posts are typially well considered and even though we are not agreeing here i don't take your comments as any sort of judgement on my system. please understand i am very pro digital and typically listen to digtial 60% to 70% of the ... | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital yeah right. 2 different hi-rez professional recording chains were simultaniously mysteriously faulty and the three pro audio guys plus the producer were oblivious to that. and remember; their recorders were getting the same signal source as my amp... | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital either this is reality.....Frankly, most modern D to A and A to D has a precision of reproduction that is far beyond human hearing.or this is reality... a month ago a friend, who owns a record label, used my tt to record some direct-to-disc Lps to... | |
| Vinyl vs. top-notch digital Jeff, i have been asked these questions many times. i agree with many here, there are many perspectives. i am one who has always attempted to try to have state-of-the-art players for both digital and vinyl. recently; i have also pursued state-of-t... |