psychicanimal
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| Silver IC's for tubed preamp/monoblocks Add Ridge Street to your list: naturally insulated silver. No Teflon, no plastic. | |
| Denon Direct Drive Decision Mr. Bear in the Vinyl Asylum is the Denon expert. | |
| Looking to get into Vinyl Either Lenco or KAB modified Technics 1200. They will smoke any TT in your price range (and beyond). Check it out at KAB: http://www.kabusa.com*** | |
| Best Phono Preamp for budget system The weak link is the turntable. Don't worry about the phono section for now. Them glass and particle board TTs don't have adequate speed/rotational stability. | |
| Mid sized room -Full range vs Monitor Integrating subs is difficult, but if you get it right you're not going to believe how wide, deep and tall the soudstage will be!Three things come to mind:1) use a proper *stereo* electronic crossover. There are NO compromises allowed here. Drivin... | |
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? Detlof is back from sabbathical leave! | |
| measuring line noise A line viewer connected to an oscilloscope, that is. | |
| Should a good system sound bad with bad recording? nobody has defined what a good system is.A good system does what the audiophile wants it to do given a particular price point.Of course, most audiophiles have no system goals and end up in a perpetual equipment swap, not unlike a dog chasing its o... | |
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? The stern of the vessel moves in the direction of the propeller rotation. How about that? | |
| Should a good system sound bad with bad recording? One of the goals I set for my system was to "successfully play any recording of any musical genre regardless of recording quality". My system does that yet is revealling enough to tell the diffrences in cryo treatment facilities of the same model ... | |
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? Did your work ever get published? I wonder if I read it?Ouch!!! | |
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? You want to love the music and be swept away by detail and emotional involvement, its scientifically proven adding rear channels is the best way to do it. :)....and ten years from now you will actually believe what I just said.Ten years from now?E... | |
| I could not believe it I can't believe it either, because my rega planar 3 / Goldring 1042 is about equal in sound to my $1000 CD setup, with neither being a clear winner.Get a real TT and your analog will outperform the digital. Work on noise control and the digital wi... | |
| I could not believe it Anyone who thinks that CD performance, or even SACD/DVDA performance, can come close to vinyl is just off their rocker. The more vinyl you listen to, the harder it is to listen to CD.Both formats have strengths and weaknesses. As the inherent weak... | |
| Is Digital actually better than Analog? My goal is to have both analog and digital rigs sound as close to each other as possible. I've done it. People say my LPs sound like CDs and the CDs like LPs. Although I have three times more albums than CDs the high cost of used LPs readily avail... |