rbbert
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| Nola Baby Grand Reference I Carl is pretty emphatic that his speakers sound best with the ARC Ref75 using KT150 tubes. Of course that's no reason not to experiment but it should be kept in mind (especially given the relatively modest price of that amp). | |
| OPPO 105; how to beat it and at what price? Take a look at the MSB universal transport and Analog DAC. Several times the Oppo's cost, but you can play any kind of disc and the sound will be better than stock Oppo. There are also any number of Oppo modders out there, Modwright and The Upgrad... | |
| LZ Reissues - HD digital or LP? The new LP's may indeed sound better than the hires downloads on some systems, but since they are both from the same 24-96 PCM digital masters it's hard to see how the LP's would "blow away" the downloads. | |
| Genesis - a new loudspeaker Or above any of those (potentially) if you're listening to the Dragon pictured on their Web pagehttp://www.genesisloudspeakers.com/ | |
| Modded 103 & 105 Oppo's? Search diyaudio? It was quoted from there in other forums I read. | |
| Modded 103 & 105 Oppo's? Almost the one and only reason Oppo doesn't offer "modded" players is cost. If you look at the history and progression of the 83 > 83SE > 93/95 > 103/105 you can see that Oppo actually incorporates the most useful and cost-effective of th... | |
| Considering Beveridge, your opinion please. They won't play very loud, but except for that they are exceptionally good. | |
| Ed Cassidy of Spirit is dead And of course the opening to Stairway To Heaven is a direct copy of the Spirit song Taurus.Randy California (Cassidy's stepson), the guiding force behind Spirit, died many years ago; needless to say Spirit died with him. | |
| Brass footers for speakers The other POV is that "coupling" to the floor material allows sound to be conducted through the floor material to the listener, and that sound will have a different arrival time than sound conducted through air. Although concrete is less resonant ... | |
| VMPS closing Not really any more info there or anywhere else right now, though | |
| The best classic reel to reel tape recorders The Technics almost certainly has a better transport, and whichever deck you use probably should have its playback electronics replaced or modded. Given that and the fact that there are probably more good sounding aftermarket playback sets for the... | |
| CDP speed control Anything that was originally recorded on analog tape may be off speed "by accident", and of course the pitch/speed may be intentionally changed on anything. There are any number of CD's made from older analog masters that have been off-speed in so... | |
| Life of a PS Audio PowerPlant?? Apparently there is more than one version of the P300? I bought mine in 1995, it has no fan. In fact there is no mention of a fan in the P300 manual on the PS Audio website, but it does talk about shutdown from overheating if there is inadequate v... | |
| Life of a PS Audio PowerPlant?? My experience is the same as Islandmandan's. | |
| Beatles Reissues on VINYL Finally The press release from the OP is the same as for the 2009 CD's; the only "approved" version of those is the 24/44.1 (and derived 16/44.1), thus the confusion about the source of the new LP's. Lacking further information it is reasonable IMHO to sp... |