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| My first Turntable... need some suggestions please The RB300 arm on the Rega Planar 3 is a very good one and can handle the DL103. The main contention with the RB300 is the spring operated tracking force mechanism, which can impart a coloration to the sound of the arm. The best route is to defeat ... | |
| New Lowther Drivers. Pipetman, I'd be glad to keep you updated on the project. I generally run a thread on my results. Regarding the Voigt Pipes performance, they do have issues with some "comb filtering" in the bass and midbass due to wave additions and cancellations... | |
| Vinyl's Noise Floor Viridian, well said. I have been wanting to say just that, but, I didn't because I thought that I would be too confrontational. I am really glad you said it, though, because it needed to be said. | |
| SACD finally taking-off? non-classical listeners For the record, I now have analog, CD, SACD, and DVD in my system. I use all of them to varying levels of enjoyment. I have no desire to have my comments interfere in any way with anyone else's enjoyment of their system. I have my preference as I ... | |
| Sony DVP 9000 Tim, the upsampling is simply more of the same, in terms of taking the original 16/44.1, and mathematically adding in a finer resolution grid on top. The problem with that is, that it is interpolating the already interpolated 16/44.1 signal. Since... | |
| New Lowther Drivers. Marklivia, I've been there and it's a great site. They have a kit for a folded Voigt Pipe that uses Lowthers, but I wanted to go with a straight one to avoid the individual cavity resonances that happen with a folded one. Thanks. | |
| The Who "Who's Next". I love any good copy of "Who's Next". Just a great album froma great band. | |
| Sony DVP 9000 Tim, I believe that a good tube-output CD player can do much to smooth the edge that is commmon to CD sound. Unfortunately, it cannot overcome the inherent lack of resolution that exists with the CD digital recording/playback system. While the pla... | |
| New Lowther Drivers. Thanks, guys. I'll check all those sites. | |
| Vinyl's Noise Floor Loves music - you have noticed something that has been noticeable since 1970. The vinyl used in US made records is re-cycled vinyl. This is due to the Clean Air Act that makes vinyl manufacturing in this country nearly impossible. the re-cycled vi... | |
| SACD finally taking-off? non-classical listeners Excellent, Unsound. I'd like to add a point here. As I can see it from my point-of-view, The main sticking points are backward compatibility, and needing to purchase a new player. First, there is backward compatibilty with all the CDs that we have... | |
| Sony DVP 9000 Flemke, if I were to rate the formats on an absolute scale, I would put CD at 8, SACD at 9 and analog at 10. With 10 being the highest known source quality at this time. Of course, as Stehno points out above, the advantages are not always realized... | |
| Sony DVP 9000 Stehno, I agree with your points. I was speaking more generally, than specifically to the points of disc recording quality. I have also noticed, like you have, that SACD is not a "bowl you over" improvement, but on good recordings has a roundness ... | |
| Any experience with Cary phono stages? I can't afford the Aesthetix IO phono stage either, but man, I would love to have one. Maybe if I win the Lottery.... If you can find the very rare Counterpoint SA-9 Phono Stage, that could be a great alternative. Very few around. You might get it... | |
| Vinyl's Noise Floor Pbb, while I love vinyl and consider it the best way to listen to music, I am not advocating that it is perfect. I have numerous less-than-great albums and some that are in pretty bad condition. I can hear plenty of noise on these. They are not my... |