richardbrand
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| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? @billpete I'll have to look to see if I have any Hyperion. Sounds familiar but not sure. Are they D2D or just very well done? Who are the pianists? On the Shostakovich, the pianist is the brilliant Canadian Marc-Andre Hamelin. The newly relea... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? I am into classical, just getting back into vinyl, so the latest vinyl releases from Hyperion suit me, especially their new recording of Beethoven Triple Concerto and their recent vinyl release of the Shostakovich Piano Concertos. I have used the... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @newton_john Yes, and I studied crystallography for three years in the Cambridge lab set up by the Bragg father and son pair who invented X-ray diffraction crystallography. Well before computers and computer graphics, and before Crick and Watson... | |
| Short in my system? Bit of advice from Down Under - use wool carpets! Inherently free of static buildup ... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade @newton_john Thanks - exactly what I was looking for. I will read "diamond hardened" to mean a "Diamond-Like Carbon Coating" which is likely to be plasma sputtered onto a substrate such as tool steel in a vacuum under tightly controlled conditi... | |
| Rumble - turntable or background noise DG LP Suggest you take a 'good' record and a 'bad' record to your local HiFi dealer. Explain that you'd like to listen on a good turntable to see where the rumble might be coming from. There is the chance of a turntable sale if it is not on the record... | |
| Linn Bedrok LP12 Plinth Upgrade What exactly does 'diamond hardened' mean in this context? I am looking for a metallurgical explanation, please! | |
| Sold Sold Sold @grislybutter Even your email is via SSL unless it’s some horrible provider Not my understanding! The ability to encrypt emails end-to-end using public-key digital certificates has been around for decades, but hardly anyone uses it! If they d... | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound @jfrmusic Yes, in my experience TP-link has been the fastest of the internet gateways I have used. The WiFi mesh routers I mentioned are TP-Link, from memory. Let’s be clear though. The WiFi extender gives you an Ethernet at each end, but the W... | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound @jfrmusic Not surprised you are confusing me. When I previously asked why you wrote you need your streamer connected to the router via Ethernet. No WiFi you replied using WiFi and periodically I would experience a signal drop and have to ... | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound @jfrmusic I don’t think you really meant WiFi Extender in this context. Maybe Ethernet Over Power? Which in turn is completely different to Power Over Ethernet! My understanding is that both adapters for Ethernet Over Power have to be connected... | |
| Turntables currently considered top of the range. Do you know what they are ? @atmasphere That was pretty much Ivor Tiefenbrun's thesis at Linn and it makes perfect sense! | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound @jfrmusic Thanks for the clarification. Are you somebody who claims to hear differences in ethernet cables / routers? My place in Canberra is almost impossible to wire with ethernet cables. Built by a Finn, it has mainly brick inside walls wi... | |
| My Denafrips Aries 15th has too much mid -bass, anybody else?? @mm1tt77 Comments on the design difference between DAC’s are spot on, R2R will have a very different sound signature vs those with newer chip designs Are you getting confused between the old resistance ladder designs and the much later R2R te... | |
| Best Classical Labels for Sound @jfrmusic I wish my ears were good enough to detect that every bit is perfect! Interested in your comment: you need your streamer connected to the router via Ethernet. No WiFi What has been your experience of WiFi that makes you rule it out... |