raymonda

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Archiving DATs to computer or server HD
Usb is for transferring the file after it has been written from your digital recording device to your computer. .spdif is for sending the digital signal to your recording device from your dat machine in real time. 
Archiving DATs to computer or server HD
Any software program will allow you to add track flags.....cost 75 bucks. You don't have to stand over any machine and press a button in real time. Tasman and Fostex make new handheld devices that have digital ins for in and around 200 new.It seem... 
Does HiRez really sound better?
I've been recording in high Rez for 11 years when I converted to 96/24. IMHO, and to these ears, it makes a difference. Now, whether that matters to you is another story but it matters to me. 
Archiving DATs to computer or server HD
Buy a used m audio micro tracker......100 bucks. Then transfer to your hard drive. If you don't get what I've posted above......which is as simple as can be.....then leave it to someone else.This is as about a difficult as sharpening a pencil. 
vintage versus modern speakers
Actually many of these so called poorly recorded rock albums you mention of yesteryear sound much better than the poorly engineered and compressed rock and pop albums put out today. That does not mean I don't agree that most great speakers of toda... 
Archiving DATs to computer or server HD
Digital out from your dat player to any digital recorder that will create and store as a file......transfer file to your hard drive. Tascam....Sony.....fostex ...and m audio make many different ones ranging from a buck fifty to five hundred.Or buy... 
The end of pono?
Um.....Edison invented many things.....high rez portable players were out way before pono. Young invented hi rez portable players like Gore invented the internet. 
M&K Lp's...still superb after all these years.
I've had this album for 20 years and have always been impressed with the soundstage it 5 how's as well as its natural, fully fleshed sound. 
New mid level Turntable / cart / phono pre system
Call Bob at Analog Shop in Victor, NY 
Buliding off of my Technics 1200
Adcom 565.....nice line stage and good phono....real good phono. Can be had used for 250 or less. 
Maggie Disappointment
Maggies offer in home when there is no dealer so you can hear them. That is a generous offer and a way for you to get to hear them when otherwise you would not be able to. No one wants to buy a product blind.In your case there is a local dealer wh... 
AT 120/440mla, Denon, huge soundstage
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DENON-DL110-DL-110-High-Output-Moving-Coil-Phono-Cartridge-/271597031559?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&hash=item3f3c71d087This is ebay ad. I have no relation to the seller but it appears that he has been on the up and up.http:/... 
Anyone else making their own cables?
The cable that grounds the chassis together is not the same as a balanced cable.A balanced cable is related to balanced circuit design. 
Cheapest volume control
Btw.....the seller for the units is ericyam at eBay. Search passive preamps and he will be there. Btw the one at AA would cost you close to 200 new and as long as the seller didn't abuse the one I sold him it should be almost like new. 
Cheapest volume control
Over on audio asylum is my old passive that the buyer is selling for 100. I think I sold it to him for 125 and it comes with some nice parts. Hurry cause it will go fast at that price and if you don't like it you can sell it at no loss. But I thin...