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| I admire Miles Davis, i admire Stravinsky; but i loved Chet Baker and Scriabin...You? As I think about this subject I don’t believe I have a dichotomy between love and admire.I may love some composers more than others, but I don’t just admire (which I believe is almost like damning with faint praise) any of them. To me, I love and ... | |
| “Marks on the underside” Thanks to all for the responses.I appreciate the support. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados To Jim, Len and all others,Here’s to a very happy holiday season, and a rid to to this dreaded plague | |
| DAC's Made in the USA Quote from Stereophile reviewing Benchmark DAC3:”...astonishing fidelity and emotional expressiveness” | |
| DAC's Made in the USA Perhaps “blows away” is a bit of hyperbole, but this does not negate that in my experience, the Benchmark clearly outperformed the Schiit in detail, clarity and tonal quality. | |
| Article: "Spin Me Round: Why Vinyl is Better Than Digital" “Playing a record is like looking through a window. You're not really there. You're on the other side of a wall, looking through glass. Layers and layers of glass. Some of them clear, some colored, some optically perfect, some wavy as hell. The sc... | |
| DAC's Made in the USA Before you spring for Schiit, try the Benchmark DAC3B. I had the Schiit Gungnir Multibit for many years, and with my equipment , the Benchmark blows it away in every way. YMMV. It’s only a few hundred dollars more, but certainly worth it.And, you... | |
| I was not enjoying the performance until I ...... Again, I agree. Getting your system in balance is first and foremost.It is the goal of every audiophile.Sources should sound right the overwhelming majority of the time without equalization. It’s just the odd CD or stream that doesn’t make it that... | |
| I was not enjoying the performance until I ...... The vast majority of the CDs I own sound fine. I couldn’t be happier with them.HOWEVER, there are SOME discs that I really like, but avoid playing because of poor mastering or engineering. With the Loki, these discs can be rehabilitated by equaliz... | |
| Point of higher priced streamer? My experience is that there is a difference. I own the Arcam rPlay streamer (now discontinued) and bought the highly touted Node 2i to see if it was an improvement. It wasn’t nearly as good. Returned it. | |
| If Steve Got You Last Week... High-amp,My digital source that I’m comparing is red book CDs.Both CDs and streaming are run through a Benchmark DAC. | |
| Looking for a speaker for my LM 845 Premium For a really inexpensive solution, get the Schiit Loki equalizer. (a little over $100.)Doesn’t degrade the sound, but cures a lot of ills. | |
| If Steve Got You Last Week... My Cyrus transport definitely sounds better in comparison to identical tracks on Qobuz. Of course there could be other factors, but right now now that is the case. | |
| I love sad music I’m surprised no one has yet mentioned Tchaikovsky’s 6th (“Pathetique”) Symphony last movement. I remember a professor in college saying “ this movement makes you want to go out and hang yourself.” I’ve found that the times I appreciated music the... | |
| Favorite Beethoven Symphony Recordings Thanks to those of you that mentioned the Zinman recording. Forgot about it. Was on the shelf gathering dust. Playing it now. Really outstanding in performance and sound. |