rbertalotto
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| When Was The Audio Golden Age? I’ve been in the hi-fi retail business for well over 50 years. The golden age absolutely existed before video games and personal computers. Back then I will estimate that 70% of people that bought hi-fi equipment more into the equipment than for t... | |
| Seeking Budget CD Player Suggestions Ive read a fee times I believe Paul at PS Audio suggests that using a transport with an off the shelf DAC will most likely have issues with the clocks syncing .Might want to do a bit of research before moving in this direction. If playing of SACD ... | |
| How does bi-wiring work? Part of the cost/performance bi-wire "argument" is that the higher frequencies do not require as much gauge as the lower end. Therefore, put less of the "good stuff" (i.e. better material) on the top end thus extracting the best sonics from thos... | |
| How does bi-wiring work? Biwiring is nonsense. It does nothing but might cause a phase/time issue.....BiAMPing is a huge improvement to many speakers with a good crossover BEFORE the amplifiers. That is truly what the four terminals should be referenced for. | |
| Cable Break In for the Naysayers As long as YOU are having fun and YOU can hear a difference......Carry on! | |
| Amazing Record/CD store in RI Not too far away, on the Fairhaven / New Bedford Massachusetts lines is “Purchase Street Records”….Huge album selections and a reasonable CD selection….and surprisingly, lots of cassetts. They are on RT 6/Popes Island behind Dunkin Donuts….about 3... | |
| Any recommendation for a CD changer? I have an Integra CDC 3.4 for sale. Like new condition with remote. Im south of Boston. Will not ship . Must be picked up in person $200 | |
| Need a new integrated, what say you? I have a Buchardt i150 integrated amplifier. Room correction, full blown parametric eq, great subwoofer integration, remote, stste of the art Class D amplifier section and if simply used as a preamplifier it is sonically hard to beat! I have a bas... | |
| SACD is VERY confusing Are you sure the Denon doesn’t convert DSD to PCM? I'm sure it does.....Not sure how else it could output a SACD. But at Higher resolution than Red Book? | |
| SACD is VERY confusing I solved my SACD issue. As I stated in the original post, I had bought A Sony x700 with the goal of somehow using it to play SACD. Yup, it got real complicated and more than I wanted to grt into. I returned it and just bought a used Denon 2910 DVD... | |
| Amazing Record/CD store in RI Does this store have any classical? Huge selection of classical....... | |
| SACD is VERY confusing Old Ears...Thank you, that is EXACTLY the direction I'm now going.... | |
| SACD is VERY confusing You are not far from the truth. But the convenience of a CD is pretty strong. And you can find new SACDs here and there pretty cheap. DSD downloads are expensive. And its a hobby….there is some fun in yhe HUNT for SACDs | |
| SACD is VERY confusing as any recording made from analog output is an analog, not digital, recording Exactly!...My point is lots of fo9lks think they are listening to pure DSD files.....But they are really listening to a cheap DAC chip in most cases if they are usin... | |
| SACD is VERY confusing You may or may not like him, but Paul from PS Audio sums it all up beatifully, in under 6 minutes!... |