piedpiper
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| Benchmark Dac1 vs Ack dAck I also have a dAck! and am delighted with it. It's much less hashy than the EAD DSP 7000 III that I had, which is no slouch in this area; beautifully silent background and no power cord to upgrade. I'm using it with an EAD T1000 with a Mapleshade/... | |
| Treating records with LAST preservative I like what Steelhead said, except for that last bit:"have fun". I jus' don' know 'bout that... | |
| Need advice re: Purchase of Reel to Reel Another two to look for are the Revox G36 tube decks available in 1/4 track and 1/2 track. The ergonomics are old style funky but they sound heavenly. Also bear in mind that a 4 track machine like the TEAC also plays 1/4 track tapes in you select ... | |
| Aesthetix IO vs. Manley Steelhead vs. The Groove Anyone compare the above with Sutherland's new battery powered PhD? By all accounts, an interesting piece for only $3000. | |
| Question for recording artist/engineers Thanks for the info! You obviously know your stuff. Are you saying that 88.2 has no advantage at all over 96k. Would it not still be a simpler conversion. I'll do some listening. | |
| Question for recording artist/engineers Thanks for the input. The low pass filter makes sense but why wouldn't they just throw out every other sample? Why go with higher sample rate then? Archival only? | |
| Question for recording artist/engineers Again, 96k is a waste of reconversion. 88.2 is just halved into 44.1 without total reconversion. You gain the higher res for recording, signal processing, if at all, editing and archiving with no down side. | |
| Question for recording artist/engineers Minimalism will always gain you alot asuuming what gear is left in the signal chain is good. I routinely use a battery powered Crown SASSP that I've heavily modified incorporating a built in hand made minimalist battery powered mic pre feeding a m... | |
| Thoughts on the new Mapleshade I know Pierre Sprey of Mapleshade pretty well and I can personally guarantee his integrity. This guy does his dammedest to offer way better stuff at as fair a price as possible. The mistrust of clearly(compare) fair pricing in intensive R+D, small... | |
| Maplenoll Mailing Discussion List Roymio, you're probably aware that your arm sounds alot like Maplenoll's Apollo table/arm. The advantage was puported to be rigidity, I thought, not mass. The Apollo was fit with a vacuum hold down to go with an arm whose VTA would shift dramatica... | |
| Maplenoll Mailing Discussion List Hey roymio, why don't you tell share it with the class? Sounds interesting. Why did you DIY instead of finding a stock Ariadne signature? | |
| Questions about a new Ruby 2 cartridge Hagerman has interesting things to say about loading, recommending 47k. Check it out at www.hagtech.com. He posted something before about this on another thread not long ago. | |
| Questions about a new Ruby 2 cartridge I use a Cardas Heart which is a variation of the Ruby. Cardas(a serious vinyl fanatic) says: "A well seasoned cartridge will perform well at a very high impedance of 47-100k, if the system is quiet. A lower impedence of 1-5k works if the system te... | |
| Maplenoll Mailing Discussion List After recently getting a new Cardas Heart for my old one that had a worn out suspension, I reassessed my rig. I ended up tweeking the arm to cope with a less than optimal mass/compliancy match that had been gnawing at me. Evidently, low compliant ... | |
| $2K to spend on used SS linestage, but which? Is the "flatness" of passive just a lack of additives coupled with a need for upgrading something else? I say go passive and check out Mapleshade/Insound planar cables if your looking for life. |