onhwy61
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| PC Rules Orpheus10, I think you're on the wrong track about what's going on. In analog every stage loses some fidelity, whereas in digital that doesn't have to be the case. In your example the square wave single isn't getting improved as it passes through ... | |
| PC Rules Redbook CD is a single digital format and should not be used to judge the capabilities of digital recording. Unless someone starts engineering new vinyl mastering lathes or tape recorders, and that ain't happening, then the future of digital is vi... | |
| PC Rules Unless you where in the mastering room at the time the final mixes were approved you can never know the true sound of a recording. What I can determine is whether a recording of a vinyl, CD or tape recording sounds like the original recording when... | |
| The downward spiral..... There's been plenty of progress in audio reproduction since 1970. But I don't think that's the issue you're dealing with. I suspect it's more age and experience related. If you're lucky you reach a point where you realize that the music really is ... | |
| PC Rules Read the fable about the wager between the North Wind and the Sun. It might help you better reframe your arguments. | |
| PC Rules Unless your squigly things generates some sort of immaculate conception the rebirth process must involve the passage of data from one generation to the next. The issue then becomes whether that data is passed unaltered, or does some distortion cre... | |
| PC Rules Rather than comparing vinyl to a hard drive recording of that vinyl you actually may have compared the line stages of a solid state preamp to a solid state preamp running through a tube buffer stage and differences in turntable stands/supports. Wh... | |
| Sophomore Slump? The best 2nd albums of all time I beg to differ, "Give 'Em Enough Rope" is a tremendous album and equal to anything else they did. | |
| Problem with soundstage up near ceiling. Pictures of your listening space might help. | |
| MacBook Pro or Mac Mini as music server True, but then again the Mach2 is only as good as what follows it. It goes round and round in a circle as a never ending chain. In the end different people decide differently where to spend their scarce resources. | |
| MacBook Pro or Mac Mini as music server The Zodiacs, Wyred, Benchmark, Berkeley and Esoteric are all very good D/As. When you get to the $1,500 and up level your choices increase rapidly. I'm not saying that the loaded Mini is not better than the stock unit, it's just that unless you ar... | |
| MacBook Pro or Mac Mini as music server Of your choices, go with the increased RAM. A 320Gb will hold around 400 CDs in their native format. If you later out grow the drive you simply copy clone the drive to a larger drive.At the level of DAC you're considering I think the "upgraded" Ma... | |
| MacBook Pro or Mac Mini as music server Nolitan, people who say that solid state drives sound better do not store their music files on the solid state system drive. They use an external drive for the music files. | |
| Problem with soundstage up near ceiling. Does the soundstage height change when you stand up vs. sitting? | |
| small companies making today's best products Regarding small vs. large companies and product quality - it depends upon the type of product and the number of products produced.I can conceive of a person in their garage designing and making a near state of the art loudspeaker. It would be expo... |