richardbrand
Responses from richardbrand
| SACD Player/Transport Choices @bergenma but given the guts of the X110 are inferior to the model you have To be fair to Raevon, most of the internals of the X110 and X200 are identical. The X200 has the addition of analogue audio outputs and it looks to me that the power... | |
| Anyone else constantly curious about amps? @gano In most other countries ... Why assume everybody here is from the same country as you? | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices @bergenma Great questions that probably bother silver disk fans! I bought a Reavon UBR-X200 on a whim after my Marantz Universal Disk Player (UDP) carked it. Just went to a couple of HiFi shops nearby, The first told me I did not want to play ... | |
| Why Does Expensive Gear Seems To Sound Better? I would draw an analogy with the art world. The British Broadcasting Corporation's series Fake or Fortune uses a combination of forensic science, provenance and expert subjectivity to try to determine whether a painting is by a famous artist, and... | |
| Soeaker cables technologic dilema… @milimetr I think that it is obvious, but not for everyone as I can see… Far too many posters make far too many assumptions about what is obvious. What is obvious to me is that the two cables you are comparing are very different from most s... | |
| Soeaker cables technologic dilema… @milimetr We have two technological solutions when it comes to speaker cable Your opening statement ignores the hundreds of speaker cable designs on the market. If you want us to hypothetically compare just two designs from the one company, ... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices @dinov I am not aware of any other SACD transports, just players. It’s the proprietary nature of SACD that make a transport difficult to make without some sort of special connection like McIntosh provides I earlier gave two examples transport... | |
| 2 Channel system sounds weak and lackluster dull and lifeless is not a room problem. Since you tried 2 different speakers, I'd swap the amp Swapping the new speakers for Wharfedale Dentons clearly made the sound worse. So logic says upgrading the speakers would likely make the sound bet... | |
| Audio Technica AT-ART1000X @kennyc It’s best to strive for a balanced audio chain when lifting sonics If you truly achieve that, then surely it makes it hard to upgrade anything without replacing the entire system! I love the concept behind the ART 1000, where the mov... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices @faustuss Not sure if you are referring to the Reavon universal disk transport / players, but the UBR-X110 I mentioned is a pure transport and its outputs are digital only - 2 x HDMI, 1 x coax digital and 1 x optical digital. It transports SACD ... | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices @faustuss The Reavon 110 and 200 universal disk players can absolutely output native DSD, over one or both of their HDMI outputs | |
| SACD Player/Transport Choices @mahler123 The Reavon universal players are very similar to the Oppo and use the same 'System on a Chip" for controlling the device, but have inferior DACs which cannot handle DSD natively - they down-sample to 16-bit PCM. | |
| Does loudness play a part in your appreciation? I remember as a schoolboy going to an all-Bartok concert at the Festival Hall in London. The conductor was Antal Dorati and the performance of Bluebeard’s Castle was recorded, I think by Mercury Living Presence. Anyway, the singer taking Judith’... | |
| Does loudness play a part in your appreciation? Mahler's second symphony (Resurrection) was played in the first concert after $100-million was spent fixing the acoustics of the Sydney Opera House. Not my money, but well spent! This symphony would surely have some of the greatest dynamic and e... | |
| Fun with MM cartridge @elliottbnewcombjr Someone with a memory, please help I found and posted a chart of materials stiffness in a recent discussion, anyone know where? Yes, it is here (my memory did not help, fingers did the work): Audiogon Discussion Forum |