nitewulf
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| Blue Note Tone Poet Series @billstevenson - they are fine as long as you know they are sourced from the CDs (hence the extra tracks). I mean they are cheap and you get the large format artwork. Plus they are new pressings so they are clean and noise free compared to used vi... | |
| Acoustic Sounds Series Yeah I have Getz/Gilberto, Ballads (also original) and A Love Supreme. They are pretty wonderful. | |
| Blue Note Tone Poet Series BN80 and Tone Poet (along with MM and Classic Records 200g series and Speaker's Corner but they don't issue Blue Notes) are all analog. Wax Time, and other Euro brands that issue cheaper Blue Notes and older jazz records are unofficial and sourced... | |
| What sends shivers down your spine when you play it on your system? @julie_priest, I am aware but, no one ever mentions it.@rafevw, sure - the debut album is stunning.Rhiannon Gidden's Freedom Highway is also a stunning album:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVrTf5yOW5sDJ Krush and Toshinori Kondo - Mu Getsu:https:... | |
| What sends shivers down your spine when you play it on your system? Another one:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIrdTi7Bzt8Buy all his albums, they are available on vinyl. Space is Only Noise is the best starting point. | |
| What sends shivers down your spine when you play it on your system? There's a lot but this is something most of you guys probably don't know:turn it up - then go ahead and buy the hi res version from a site:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOT2-OTebx0 | |
| Audiophile metal albums The point isn’t about metal bands and good albums, there are hundreds. But rather what is very well recorded and produced as well. Every genre has that. Typically electronic music is considered non audiophile but certain artists care about the qua... | |
| Audiophile metal albums Hmm, checking out Ghost on YouTube, they are pretty good!Opeth for reference:No growling:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAuL3AszIiE&list=PL_9gWeiShHFGZPQvoPc0vo7CtiQZUdM0R&index=3With growling:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeTNkPXRrVY&a... | |
| Audiophile metal albums @lowrider57, I know, also distortion is a desired element of the genre. But even given that, Opeth for instance sounds really, really good. Well recorded, and of course the music is excellent. It's just that I dislike the growling vocals. I'm a fa... | |
| Best 40 to 50k used speakers Whatever from Tidal you can afford in your budget. Specially if you're from Germany - easy to check out German speakers. https://www.tidal-audio.com/I would also check out Kaiser:https://www.kaiser-acoustics.com/ | |
| ~$15K floorstanders: opinions sought The Legacy speakers look great in person, not so much in photos. So I do suggest checking them out in person. I own the Signature SE. The Endeavor MK2 was my second choice when I was speaker shopping, I'm sure the Endeavor SE is very good.Other ae... | |
| Msb dacs why not alot of postings @dannad "Some people like NOS DACs, most do not. I would go on a limb and say no one could reliability tell you whether a DAC was R2R or DS without being told."I am no sure whether r2r vs d-s aren't discernible. The whole idea is, if implemented p... | |
| Msb dacs why not alot of postings Yeah this whole thing took a very negative turn which wasn't my intention and I do regret that.To @thyname , my current dac is a Metrum Pavane, prior to that I had a Metrum Onyx. I am very partial to Metrum dacs in so far as they just sound really... | |
| Msb dacs why not alot of postings @arafiq , yes, ASR is a good resource for measurements obviously but measurements are not everything. Hence why these very cheap but excellent measuring dacs like the Topping actually do not sound good.But we also have to keep in mind that devices... | |
| Msb dacs why not alot of postings MSB uses discrete r2r chips, much like Metrum, Rockna, Holo Audio and some other recent manufacturers. Manufacturing refinements since MSB’s older dacs like the Analog have enabled designers to implement resistors with lower tolerances and thermal... |