qualia8
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| Richter's Well Tempered Clavier Also interested in the Richter LP. Love his playing. I have Gould's which is my single favorite recording of anything by anyone, and also recommend Vladimir Feltsman. | |
| preamp upgrade- lavry da10 vs modding my p3 vs p8 What do you have now?I got some balanced-to-unbalanced connectors and I'm loving the Lavry through my preamp... A thousand times better than skipping the pre. | |
| preamp upgrade- lavry da10 vs modding my p3 vs p8 I have the Lavry and dearly hoped I could use it directly to my Threshold amp. I was disappointed, to say the least. The Lavry is a great dac, no doubt, but without a preamp in the chain, it produced a lifeless, clinical sound that repulsed everyo... | |
| Threshold T200? Thanks for the advice, everyone. I ended up getting it for 1250. Now, any suggestions for upgrading other parts of my system to match this amp? | |
| Threshold T200? Thanks for the info. 1K sounds like a great deal. Here, the asking price is $1400 from an audio dealer. I saw the rebuild offer from Threshold. Looks good, but I don't have that kind of cash. Is $1400 too much? A-gon bluebook avg price is $1820 an... | |
| Mac Mini or MacBook to Tact to MF X-DACv3 Not sure how much this will help, because I share your questions...I have a new macbook pro and use the digital out to an X-DAC v3. As Glitch947 says, everything comes out 44.1, so there's no problem reading the files. There is a digital volume co... | |
| DIY concrete stands Thanks everyone for the replies. Rich, your stands look *way* cool. I did check out the glass blocks as well, but I was thinking of wrapping them in fabric at the time. (I had in mind just a satin-y type of fabric pinned in the back, and maybe bla... | |
| New to the Hobby what would you do next? I want to second Warner's post, above. Room acoustics for some reason doesn't seem as sexy as equipment, but IMO it makes a bigger difference for the $. Here's one more thing to try...get your rack out from between your speakers. As I see the pic ... | |
| The song you just cant stop playing??? Thank you, Champtree. Glenn Gould first brought the Goldberg Variations to life in his best-selling 1955 debut recording, a brash interpretation that made this "difficult" piece into child's play. He revisited the work in his final recording in 19... | |
| How much $ to "match" digital in my system? thanks jdaniel. that's very good news. after the holidays, i'll start shopping. (we'll see what the budget is *then*.)what do you mean by late-analog? just before recordings were themselves made in digital, then pressed? when was that, for phillli... | |
| The song you just cant stop playing??? goldberg variations -- gould 1981 | |
| Cars. What does the typical audiophile drive? I drive my brother's 1997 Jetta until he returns from the Peace Corps in South Africa, this spring. I'm car shopping right now and would appreciate audiophillic advice.Options: (1) 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid (major federal and state tax breaks and fr... | |
| New to the Hobby what would you do next? Best bang-for-buck investment I ever made... if you haven't already done so...$3 at Home Depot for sand to fill your stands. Also mount speakers on stands with spikes and stand-to-floor with spikes also. Whoa! These things, all done at once, made ... | |
| Reviews with all double blind testing? An explanation of why we pick up auditory differences closely spaced in time but not those spaced out over time:The auditory system works like most of our perceptual systems, by detecting differences and similarities, rather than absolute values. ... | |
| What price point favors separates over integrated? I'm jealous. The kW500 is a beast! And I bet you *could* tell the difference, provided the speakers were inefficient enough, and the volumes high enough. The specs on those two amps are quite different.More importantly, how much would you have to ... |