twoleftears
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| Transports: Simaudio, Pro-ject, Jays Let's put the question another way: does anyone know of any CDPs or CDTs that DON'T successfully play the CD layer of a hybrid SACD? If some don't, I would have thought that that was more the fault of the manufacturer of the SACD than of the CDP. | |
| CD Alternative Besides the Esoteric, take a look at the current Luxman models. They're very good also. | |
| DAC connection: which type gives highest fidelity? My understanding is that different manufacturers have optimized different connections among the available options. So it's really impossible to generalize about. | |
| LSA Voyager GAN 350 versus Merrill Audio Element Amps or AGD Grand Vivace and Vivace Amps @soundhound I believe it's the AGD Audion model that starts at $7500.@verdantaudio I too am very intrigued by the Audions. And I believe that now, too, Atmasphere's beta-stage class D monoblocks are also proprietary/purpose-built. | |
| Why so much love for Mcintosh? https://www.mcintoshlabs.com/products/lifestyle great stuff!Owned by McIntosh Group (which sounds better than Fine Sounds Group). | |
| Amplifiers in use with big Harbeths (Mon 40 series) that work very well @voodoochillin +1If you've tried the combo, please report on AGD Audions with the Harbeths. | |
| Vintage vs Modern speakers. Billie Holiday sounds GREAT. It sounds as if we're in a fairly small jazz club. Impressed. | |
| Can someone suggest a lush tube integrated under $3000 used Conrad Johnson is the obvious one to look at. There's the CAV-50 and nowadays the CAV45-S2. | |
| What do audiophiles do in their cars? In my Yugo I dare not turn on the transistor radio that I carry with me (none in the car): I need to listen constantly and carefully to see if anything else falls off while I'm driving along, as well as for more strange sounds from the engine block. | |
| Top 3 songs to evaluate a system 1. Concordia Viols - Crye by Concordia Viols (2001-10-02) - Amazon.com Music The gorgeous sound of the consort of viols will tell you everything you need to know about a speaker's midrange.2. John O'Conor - Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 (M... | |
| New speaker cables recommendations sought Budget?Acoustic Zen would be worth looking at as well as Cardas.Wireworld is more middle-of-the-road but inclining in the directions you mention. | |
| Bernard Haitink, R.I.P. Cut my teeth on the Solti cycle with Decca, recorded between 1964 and 1971. I wonder how Decca of that vintage compares with Philips. | |
| Vintage vs Modern speakers. The Altec has more immediacy, more presence, more you are there (or is it, they are here?) feel to it. But then when heard against the Lansche, the Lansche make the Altecs sound a little lean (i.e. not full-bodied) in the timbre department. The ... | |
| Member Make Zero Sense I was thinking of so many things he didn’t know of Mulvey and Mr Stanhope and Hester and father and old captain Groves and the sailors playing all birds fly and I say stoop and washing up dishes they called it on the pier and the sentry ... | |
| Two speaker Qs The material used and the exact construction of the cabinet can be very important to the sound. Fancy veneers and piano black, automotive finishes, can add mucho $$$. So it varies model to model, brand to brand.For 17K the loudspeaker world is p... |