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| Best Tube CDP for $2000 Budget have you heard the unison players ??I have - it is probably some of the most awful sounding gear out there (even my Wife thought so). Slow, lifless, with tonal balance that was always off in one way or another even for different tubes: Exaggerated... | |
| What's your profession? Age? Jim, interesting statistics - seeing a strong 20-35 age group is encouraging (I am not alone!!). Did you feel it would be worth charting the occupation as well? For example: Is there a stronger science and ingeneering or musician background? Highe... | |
| What are the treasures in your vinyl library? Cmo - are you sure you don't want to donate those Tom Waits bootlegs to my collection? | |
| What are the treasures in your vinyl library? My almost complete collection of Tom Waits Records.In particular, last year I found a rare recording of Tom Wait's original performance of the "The Black Rider" at the Hamburg Dahlia Theatre. I have never seen this one on CD or Vinyl ever. The rel... | |
| $75 Thorens vs. $2K+ Michell...is this possible? Also per my recollection, the Michell/Benz combo also sounds a little light in the bass. That is very much my experience with the Michell Tecnodec. Using a Denon DL103R and a Wright Phono was a lot better, but still not satisfactory IMO. This is t... | |
| Mstislav Rostropovich has died at the age of 80 I was so looking forward to hearing him at the Toronto Symphony this next season :( | |
| $75 Thorens vs. $2K+ Michell...is this possible? Paul, I owned both the Michell and Thorens and what you describe would indicate some problems with the cartridge mounting or phonostage settings. Where do you live? Possibly there are some friendly Agon members that could check the cartridge align... | |
| Best Tube CDP for $2000 Budget My Favorite CDP is the Audio Aero Prima - smooth, detailed, with the most realistice portrayal of instruments I have heard to this point. I left some more detailed comments here:Audio Aero Prima 24/192 Mk II cd player......My impression since then... | |
| Life after Maggies? Ok, here is a suggestion that might sound odd:I am more from the single driver camp and recently listened again to a pair of Maggies 1.6 (it's been ten years since I listened to the 1.5). Overall, I found quite a few similarities of the Maggies 1.... | |
| Floor standers or Monitors? Just to point out some flaws in the distintion between floorstanders and monitors: My Cain Abbys are floorstanders with a single driver and all the positives and negatives of monitor - as Marco (Jax2) pointed out the destinction should really be b... | |
| macmini spdif out vs. usb Marco (Jax2), I got the Brick and I am holding onto it. Your description was on the dot - relaxed and smooth, very natural sounding with solid midrange, solid images and deep soundstage, good separation between instruments, every instruments is we... | |
| One TT, 2 arms, 2 cartridges for $2,000 used? I generally agree - your money might be better invested in a single arm and table. If you still like to get two different flavor of cartridges, you could use an extra armwand or headshell if you like:To give you some complete constructive solution... | |
| macmini spdif out vs. usb Here are some interesting threads running currently on Asylum:Which is better format sonically: USB or S/DIF?SB3 versa USB to S/PDIF converter?Why no "reasonably" priced USB Dacs?Enjoy! | |
| Tube CD player? I second the Audio Aero for a tube based player - much better than the Rega Planet, Unison Unico CDP, and Linn Genki. The Audio Aero is warm to neutral, naturally detailed, without any strain. It get the texture and tone of instrument right, more ... | |
| Review: Denon DL 103R Cartridge 12.5 grams would still be medium mass. On a side note: The compliance of the Denon is higher than usually quoted - running the Denon in a light JMW9 (7.7g) gave a measured resonance of around 11Hz and the Denon sounded better on the JMW9 than on h... |