rcprince
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| 24/96 vs 24/192 DAC I'm really not the one to be giving technical information, but I'll give it a try here, and hope that someone with better information can correct me: 1. Redbook CD is the regular CD you buy at the store. I believe that the players you mentioned ab... | |
| 24/96 vs 24/192 DAC I will likely be castigated for this, but after listening to upsampling to 24/96 and 24/192 on a dCS Purcell, I believe it is primarily marketing hype. I believe that the current DVD-V and DVD-A standard is 24/96 (others please correct me if I'm w... | |
| What is the best Beatle Song Jbullock: I find it absolutely amazing that songwriters as young as Lennon and McCartney were when they wrote "In My Life" could write lyrics that take on more and deeper meaning to me as I grow older. I would imagine that in Johnny Cash's case it... | |
| How often to Audiophiles upgrade their equipment? Like the others, it sort of depends. When I first started I upgraded often because (1) I started to make enough money to afford where I wanted to be heading (for example, I bought an Acoustat preamp to tide me over till I got my Audio Research SP1... | |
| Full-function/Phono-only vs. Line + Phono Stage? While it is always a good idea to have less in your signal path, in my view, the problem is having both enough gain in the stand-alone unit for records cut at mid- to low levels (remember, the line stage is adding 12-20 db of gain) and a volume co... | |
| What would be the best transport for Meitner Dac 6 I must say that seeing the collaborative effort to fix those SACD 1000s as documented on AA, involving both modifiers and Philips repair personnel, has been a pleasant surprise. | |
| What would be the best transport for Meitner Dac 6 Tbg is correct, unfortunately, if you want a transport that will take advantage of this DAC's SACD capability (and both Tbg and I are assuming you didn't get it for redbook), the only choices are an EMM modified Philips SACD 1000, as Tbg refers to... | |
| Piego P-10 or big Thiels? This is a shot in the dark, and I recognize that Thiel's balance is tilted towards the treble in most of their earlier models, but I will note that long ago when I owned Duntech Princesses, not a particularly bright speaker by any means, I was tro... | |
| goodbye to vinyl. . . . grr ------ longish rant Auaarons--with all the Classic/Speakers Corner/Testament/King/Cisco etc. reissues of fine analog classical recordings from the 50s, 60s and 70s, I think there still is plenty to choose from even if you're just starting up (albeit at a stiff price)... | |
| goodbye to vinyl. . . . grr ------ longish rant I think you should convert to classical music and keep your analog rig. :) However, I can agree that your points are well thought-out, particularly the rant about the use of 16 bit/44khz masters for vinyl being the worst of both worlds. And while ... | |
| SOL if captive power cord? If you're handy with electronics (or a friend is), you could hard-wire a good PC to your unit (it beats any IEC connector by far), although you may risk losing your warranty. I once had a friend make me up an IEC to two-pronged adapter, to use his... | |
| Classic Rock Fans? I'm still a fan of music from the bands from the late 60s-early 70s (the Byrds were always among my favorites back then), although I am not at all interested in seeing them on their current reunion tours and remindng myself of how old I am. | |
| Personal Preamp Evolution 1986: Acoustat TNP1987: Audio Research SP11 Mk II1990: Jadis JPL/Vendetta SCP 2B1992: Jadis JP80MC2002: Jadis JP200/Lamm LP2I've had numerous other preamps in the system from time to time while the JP80 was being repaired (Meitner PA6i, VAC Rennai... | |
| Lamm M1.1 hybrid comparisons to tube amps Tpsonic, what's this about ML1 amp fires? I've not heard or seen anything about them in any forums here or at AA (mine are working flawlessly).Dmailer, I can't comment on the M1.1s, as it's been too long since I heard them, but the ML1's are quite... | |
| Amazing Solo Piano Recordings Tireguy, the pianist there was arguably the greatest of all time--my dad was a piano major in college, heard Rachmaninoff in concert and decided if he had to compete with that, he'd become a lawyer instead... An excellent recommendation, particula... |