rcprince
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| What is purpose of a cd transport? Heck, Sugarbrie, for vinyl I only have the Lamm phono to turn on for the phono stage (maybe I should consider the Blue Circle, though the Lamm is really an extra box itself because my Jadis has its own world-class phono stage), but then I also hav... | |
| What is purpose of a cd transport? That's how the production Audio Logic with the single power supply did it as well. A good design. I sort of miss the separate boxes from the prototype, though, because you could turn off the analog stage (and therefore save tube life) while leavin... | |
| What is purpose of a cd transport? Audio Logic has done the same thing with their DAC in the past (the new MDX version is a one-box DAC)--in fact, their prototype actually had three boxes, one for the DAC circuitry, one for the analog power supply and one for the digital power supp... | |
| 25 year old polk 2.3's will I hear an improvement? You should be careful--I had a project with the manufacturer and designer of my speakers where we replaced the crossover built inside my satellite speakers with an outboard crossover using much better quality parts (Hovland caps, Alpha Goertz chok... | |
| What is purpose of a cd transport? Pbb's post wasn't here when I posted. In theory, a well-designed one box player should beat separates, because that's one less interface and a shorter path for the electronic signal. In fact, the original CD players, with the main exception of Son... | |
| What is purpose of a cd transport? Its job is to properly read the disc and transmit the digital data. Some transports use better parts and are better built and are therefore better at doing that than others. | |
| 25 year old polk 2.3's will I hear an improvement? I can't say I've made a similar upgrade, but can point out a few things:1. I listened a lot to the Polks at the time they were out and always felt they were bass-heavy and shelved down in the highs. Keeping in mind I'm going with 20+ year old memo... | |
| Cable isolators ??? I heard a convincing demonstration at both my home and at one of our audio society meetings of the benefits of getting interconnects off of vibrating surfaces (in these cases, the floor). I think Elizabeth's tips are sound, and her insulating mate... | |
| Good Grief. Another Tchaikovsky already. Eldartford--afraid not, unless it's already a rare Strad or Del Gesu and you can make up a more exciting story about the burnt spot.Agree with you both about Hahn, I would prefer to think it's a matter of her maturing as an artist. She certainly h... | |
| Good Grief. Another Tchaikovsky already. I can add a little tangential flavor to that, as I was involved in the sale of his old violin. These rare violins always come with papers that trace their history, or are involved in their history. The Strad he used to play, the "Tom Taylor", had ... | |
| Benefit of Tri or Quad Wire compared to Bi wire Yeah, there was a picture in one issue that showed Lipnick in his listening room with those speakers, and they filled up the whole room, it seemed! | |
| Benefit of Tri or Quad Wire compared to Bi wire Kal, check the archives at Stereophile, I think Richard is referring to the B&W 800s that Lewis Lipnick had and reviewed back in the 90s? | |
| Yamaha MCX-1000 + Benchmark DAC-1 I run mine through my Audio Logic DAC, it almost (but not quite) sounds as good as my Forsell transport. Using an external DAC makes a significant improvement, in my view, over the unit's standard analog outputs, so I'd go for it. | |
| Good Grief. Another Tchaikovsky already. Thanks for the tip, Eldartford. While I like Bell's playing, I admit I said "What, another Tchaikovsky?" when I saw it available as an SACD. Nice to see there's something special to make it worth adding to the collection. | |
| Best player for Poorly Recorded redbook CDs? The Cello is analog and very high quality, but no longer made. You'll need to find it used. The PARC is very good but only affects signals below 300Hz, and is designed to tame low frequency room problems by lowering peaks in frequency response, it... |