relayer101
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| Holographic DAC With Air And Decay Since you mentioned you prefer R2R DAC’s maybe look into the Dutch made Metrum and Sonnet DAC’s. Depending on the model the price point for new or used would be within your budget. | |
| critique my setup -- weak link? best way to improve? Based on your post focusing on your analog needs If you don’t already have the speakers isolated from your sideboard look at Isoacoustics mini pucks at a minimum. Also a standalone phono preamp from the likes of Schiit or others within your budget... | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album Blood, Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father To The Man. Speakers Corner Records (Columbia) LP Reissue. | |
| Recommendations for a phono stage: Gold Note turntable w/ MC cartridge to ARi50. Interesting information. I wasn’t aware that Rutherford on GNUSA was no longer handling warranty repairs but I would like to think the manufacturer being Gold Note would still honor a warranty on new product at their current repair center within a... | |
| Recommendations for a phono stage: Gold Note turntable w/ MC cartridge to ARi50. All of the suggestions look good so far. If you like the Gold Note brand the PH-5 is selling for $750 on GoldnoteUSA. | |
| DAC upgrade from RME Since you mentioned liking the characteristics of NOS R2R DAC’s you should look into the Dutch made Metrum and Sonnet DAC’s. | |
| Metrum Onyx vs Schiit Yggdrasil? @dasherma - You can set the volume control where it is a non issue. I run my DAC through a preamplifier and have set the volume on the Morpheus to a level that works well with my preamp volume and in the Morpheus settings have the volume control... | |
| Metrum Onyx vs Schiit Yggdrasil? I have the Sonnet Morpheus DAC from the engineers that also designed the Metrum line of DAC's. The two companies are now merged back into one company under the Metrum website. It's a great sounding R2R DAC and I believe a newer design than the Me... | |
| Your thoughts on best audiophile speakers in $10,000 neighborhood? ++ on the other Vandersteen suggestions especially if you like the sound signature of your 2Cs. I'm also always in favor of listening to other brands if you have a chance to do so as there are a ton of great speakers out there for the money. The... | |
| Songs you use when auditioning gear Sting - Russians from the Blue Turtles album. Steve Winwood - Low Spark from Greatest Hits Live Patty Griffin - Mama’s Worried from the self titled album for acoustic guitar and of course her voice. Led Zeppelin - No Quarter from early Houses o... | |
| Phono Preamp suggestions between either Gold Note PH-10 or Whest TWO.2 I did go ahead with purchasing a Gold Note PH-10 earlier this year after initially upgrading my phono cartridge to a Hana Microline low output cart. With the spec's on the cartridge stating a greater than 100 ohm load impedance I liked that the Go... | |
| Heavy Vinyl There are a number of record companies that still produce all analog pressings from the original tapes. Analog Productions is one of them and I have found everything that I have purchased from them to be of very high quality with excellent SQ. Wit... | |
| Heavy Vinyl I have a decent collection of early pressings of albums from the 1960’s to the 80’s and would estimate less than 1% are warped. But I have also come across very few 180 gram that are warped. As far as sound quality I believe most of my older pres... | |
| "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Just listened to the Brown Album and Stage Fright yesterday in memory of Robbie. I can still remember listening to Big Pink for the first time when it was initially released and thinking that I had never heard anything like it in my life. The Weig... | |
| Speakers sounding dull? MUST READ! The truth about speaker design! Very clever although I am disappointed there was no tweak du jour to solve the worlds home audio concerns. I will reflect back on this post the next time I have a battle of the bands in my garage. |