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| What's best CD player one piece price no object In a German review, the Lindemann sacd player, the D680, playing cds was judged superior to the Linn CD12. I do not have a Linn to compare, but the Lindemann on cds is better than any transport and separate dac, I have heard.Linn will soon have mu... | |
| HMS TPO MATCH cables My experiences are limited to using the HMS between my dac and the preamp, although I have used different dacs and preamps. The big problem is that in all cases the volume dropped off so sharply with each higher setting that I could not get an exa... | |
| What's best CD player one piece price no object What does it mean that there is so little agreement? Hearing is believing. | |
| long i/c run...looking for high end cable Sorry to be so long in responding; I am out-of-town. I think there must be several considerations. RFI with unshielded ics might recommend steel conduit that is grounded, but I really worry about such proximity of steel. I do not like to have anyt... | |
| H-CAT Model 12-P Preamp, Fact or Fiction?? Roger expects it to be $1995. | |
| H-CAT Model 12-P Preamp, Fact or Fiction?? Check out the new Absolute Sound. What you heard is not what is available now nor did you hear it under good circumstances.I will soon have an H-Cat phono. | |
| SACD- my intial thoughts.... I would tend to agree but Brubeck's Time Out is hardly a well recorded session. Even on the SCD-1 it sounded much better than on cd, but on the Lindemann it is approaching realism. Would it not be great to have all DSD recorded sacds? | |
| SACD- my intial thoughts.... My experiences with initially the Sony SCD-1, then the Marantz SA-1, and now the Lindemann D680 would suggest that Ben's problem is the Sony DVP 900. Initially with the SCD-1 I could hear some improvement of the sacd layer over the cd layer--more ... | |
| Vibration control with Neuance and Mana I have no experience yet with Neuance, but have five Mana phase 5 racks with plate glass on the top shelf. When I first bought a Mana Reference, phase 2, shelf many years ago, I took my cd transport off the Vibraplane and put it on the Mana. There... | |
| Vibration control with Neuance and Mana I have no experience yet with Neuance, but have five Mana phase 5 racks with plate glass on the top shelf. When I first bought a Mana Reference, phase 2, shelf many years ago, I took my cd transport off the Vibraplane and put it on the Mana. There... | |
| long i/c run...looking for high end cable The Vahallas weren't bad?? One thing is for certain, they were expensive.I would think that half the length would greatly affect the impedance and capacitance. I made the decision sometime ago that my speakers would sound more open were there not ... | |
| long i/c run...looking for high end cable And I thought my 4 m. run was long! I have been using the Stealth PGS-3D from Interlink. It is gold litz and excellent. I would prefer Siltech G5 Compass Lake were I Bill Gates. I have tried Pure Note, Jena Labs, and several lesser cables in my 4 ... | |
| Best Dark Sounding Amp For Bright Speakers? Accurate speakers, amps, and preamps can sound bright if your cd source is poor and bright. Tailoring speakers and amps can get you into trouble if you ever change anything later. | |
| Preamp Deal of the Century You all know of the big falling out between Peter and Kondo some years ago. I have heard both sides of the story and cannot decide who is at fault if anyone. I am inclined to believe it is language difficulties. At any rate I find both the Kondo M... | |
| Inverted Polarity Correction Question Fi magazine once published a list of labels with inverted signals, but they were full of shit. All you can do in try it both ways. Unfortunately most expensive dacs do not allow such a change and very few preamps have an invert switch. |