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| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Michael Jackson - Off the Wall (legs cover) | |
| If you still spin CD's their is a reference level Transport for reasonable money Since I don't think I really made the point I was driving at when I set out on that post, my goal is to find my favorite recordings in their best form on physical media. And in cases where they are roughly equal, frankly I’d prefer to play the CD ... | |
| Thinking about a new, lower end CD Player OP, if you can find a TASCAM CD-200b used for $89 or $99, get it. I'm using its bigger brother, the 500b and it sounds great. MSRP is $499 and I got it on eBay in "like new" condition, which fortunately ended up being accurate, for $189. I am step... | |
| Jay's Audio transport I have one coming, ordered last night. Really looking forward to it. I went with the CDT2 since the transport and laser are still in production compared with the CDT3, and it looks as though maintenance in that area was designed to be very simple ... | |
| If you still spin CD's their is a reference level Transport for reasonable money Just ordered a CDT2-MK2 from Mike Powell in GA. Had a good chat with him this morning. My current player is just a TASCAM 500b which, hooked to an Yggdrasil (new Analog 2 board) via AES, has surpassed every expectation I had for CD playback. So I'... | |
| New system/room, upgrade amp or preamp first? Update!So it's been nearly a month now since I got everything up and running. Where to start... first of all, these DIY speakers are something special. They are hyper-resolving, tonally they are very accurate. Drums sound like drums, pianos sound ... | |
| New system/room, upgrade amp or preamp first? Installed the Pre1 tonight, running y-adapters from the line out section to both the B&K and both subs. So far, so good. So, so good :) The soundstage feels like it's a foot deeper and maybe I'm just imagining things but I swear I'm hearing mo... | |
| Is it really useless Upscaling 16/44.1 music to 24 Got it - that's what I figured and it's not that big of a deal really. When I am listening critically, I don't mess with the computer anyway :) | |
| Is it really useless Upscaling 16/44.1 music to 24 May not exactly be relevant but I'm using JRiver to convert everything to DSD and output to a Schiit Loki and, honestly, I have no major complaints, though one minor one. If I'm using the PC to browse the web while I'm listening, I occasionally ge... | |
| New system/room, upgrade amp or preamp first? Thanks Cerrot, no worries at all! If somehow anything falls through on the BC, I may look you up, so I appreciate the heads up regardless.I'm about 1/2" short of having enough wood to build the last hanging acoustical treatment for the rear wall. ... | |
| New system/room, upgrade amp or preamp first? I've learned more about audio in general, and system considerations to a more specific degree today than any single day I can remember :) You are a very kind person to spread the knowledge you have to anyone willing to take it in. Thank you Al. | |
| New system/room, upgrade amp or preamp first? Seller and I have agreed on $950 plus shipping. Can't wait for it to show up! | |
| New system/room, upgrade amp or preamp first? I will throw this out there, just to get feedback - am I loony for thinking a simple single-ended Y out of the preamp would be doable until I (ideally) find a balanced amp so as to use enable both sets of outputs concurrently? Not dismissing the h... | |
| New system/room, upgrade amp or preamp first? Al, hopefully this pastes well, but the text of the Pre1 manual reads:XLR Output Jacks for Left andRight ChannelsThese outputs go to your power amplifier oractive crossover if it has XLR inputs. Theyuse the standard Male XLR pinout pattern of:1 - ... | |
| New system/room, upgrade amp or preamp first? Al - thank you so much for that response, it truly is helpful. The plan all along has been to treat the rear wall, I just haven't gotten to it yet but the concern is heard and will be handled post-haste. I have plenty of material left to make anot... |