nickatkins
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| Preamp Deal of the Century Excellent news guys. Looks like Audiogon has made pages available on threads now! Now very long ones like this can actually be read by people on slow connections/machines. And we'll all see a noticeable performance improvement too! Kudos! | |
| Which turntable should I buy? Oh, almost forgot, Artar1 -- what did you eventually settle on for a 'table? I searched around but can't find the answer.Btw, the thread "$800 Cartridge Shootout and Upgrade Path" is brilliant, when I get more time, I'll read it. Cheers! | |
| Which turntable should I buy? Thanks to all of you for your helpful replies, although Psychicanimal, I'll leave the Technics 'tables to you, thanks all the same ;-)Artar1 -- thanks for the compliments, my system is only just starting to get really nice! To be honest, I didn't ... | |
| Best Audio Format for Apple I-Pod With the iPod lineout to a Musical Fidelty X-CAN v3 I have not been able to tell the difference between 320kbps AAC and Apple Lossless. I encode everything in Apple Lossless now as it's basically a perfect copy of the original CD. I rarely use the... | |
| Is hdcd worth having ?? I wouldn't put HDCD very high on the list of priorities when selecting a player. I have a Cary 306/200 and it's nice to have but (a) there are so few HDCD titles out there, (b) XRCD sounds as good or better to my ears and (c) good upsampling sound... | |
| Which turntable should I buy? Thanks for your responses, my budget would be for the 'table and arm only. Cartridge comes next...My preference is for speed and dynamics not bass or lushness -- I get plenty of that from the tubes ;-) | |
| HE2004 in San Francisco this year Btw, according to their web site HE2004 is cancelled this year due to the hotel dispute ;-( | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Amandarae - thanks for your answer. I got an email from Mick yesterday and he said he removed the tape monitor from the Chenin in favour of an HT bypass which he said people preferred. It can be changed with a little soldering!I did get a manual w... | |
| Personal amp evolution Years in the wilderness of "mid-fi" and an early and brief entry into HT was followed by:Creek 5350 SS integrated (couldn't afford the SE at the time)Marsh a400s SS power amp (significant step up in my system)Granite 861 tube monos (glorious, swee... | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century Quick question: does anyone know how the tape loop works on the Chenin? There is no tape monitor switch that I can see, so how does one switch it on and off? Thanks. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century I thought I'd better report in.My Chenin arrived this morning, safe and sound. It took me about 20 mins to unpack and set up, removing my old preamp from the rack first. Sounds sublime already, really looking forward to a marathon session tonight!... | |
| Coldplay's "A Rush of Blood to the Head" I agree -- the CD seems compressed to me. A friend has the vinyl version which sounds a lot better to us both. | |
| Best female vocals on CD I bought "Careless Love" at the weekend on the strength of the Stereophile review (I was bored and wanted to buy something new) and have not been dissapointed. I'm not a huge Billie Holliday fan but she does sound very close -- it's a real "old ti... | |
| iPod help needed... I have encoded most of my collection in AAC 320 kbps and play it through the dock to a Musical Fidelity X-Can v3 into Sennheiser 570 headphones. Good for listening at work! | |
| No Audiophiles in Hollywood Matt Damon had a Bose Wave Radio in The Bourne Supremacy. Yep, no audiophiles in Hollywood! |