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| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD I've checked this thread periodically and commend @mattnshilp for putting his money behind these various DACs- it seems like this has taken on a life of its own, with lot's of good comments. I've never done digital seriously, and am now contemplat... | |
| Led Zeppelin II I have several: the RL packs more punch than most- condition is key, and the prices tend to be high even for noisy copies- It took me 3 copies to get a dead quiet player.The early plum UK is also very good- more bass, a little less "thwack," but s... | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio Geoff- I do have a cheapy loaded on to an iPad. It works with a microphone, either the one built into the iPad-questionable- or an external mic, but it is measuring output of the entire system within the room. What I was thinking about was a lab g... | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio @itzhak1969--I'm pretty firmly rooted in the subjective camp with a healthy respect for science. Could some of the sonic attributes you mention, like brightness and perhaps even sound stage, be measured by fourier analysis? I don't know the answ... | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio Years ago we had companies like Western Electric, Bell Labs, RCA and others that invested considerably in R & D. I know some of the high end companies are now owned by large conglomerates, but I doubt research into auditory phenomena is the sa... | |
| 50 of the best hi-fi albums for audiophiles @blindjim - the very notion of a "list" of recommended albums is bound to evoke reactions from "what, that again!" to "why didn't they include X?"Your question about researching the story behind the record is an interesting one- I discover music a... | |
| Best sounding Hard Rock brian davison- every which way-mercury- (former drummer for The Nice, set up 1 off band after Emerson left; great vocals by Graham Bell, sounds like old Traffic, blues shouter hard rock, good sound, not big $);blast furnace- s/t- danish polydor- b... | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio The term of art is " nattering nabobs of negativism." | |
| 50 of the best hi-fi albums for audiophiles I had expected the usual list of audiophile warhorses, many with good sonics, but so-so music, or material so well-trod that it is hardly a revelation. The inclusion of The Congos, Heart of the Congo, is cool. It isn't a sonic masterpiece in the a... | |
| Audiophiles should learn from people who created audio I can hear differences even among cheap cables. When I set up my vintage system recently, using a pair of the original Quad ESLs and a restored pair of Quad II amps with real GEC KT 66s, my plan was no fancy cable. When I originally used the Quads... | |
| Please Recommend Transport + DAC for $5K total I am aiming for the same target, and pretty much decided on the Sim 260d as a transport only. Since I am only interested in Redbook, the Border Patrol with better power supply seems to be a pretty safe bet--old school R2R (chip), no oversampling, ... | |
| Steve Hoffman site Beatles discussions? Yep, there is a discussion (or several) on Hoffman, but this site is interesting- it looks like both the second and fourth issues, which share the -2 suffix in the matrix, have the same sonic attributes. (Discussion in the commentary)[url]http://w... | |
| Steve Hoffman site Beatles discussions? @gpgr4blu - ask the seller to verify the deadwax, I will double check, but am virtually certain it is a -2. The other issue of the record from Horzu (which for some reason I think was a magazine publisher), was a "normal" stereo copy. Give me a li... | |
| Steve Hoffman site Beatles discussions? I'm a pretty regular participant on the Hoffman forum and The Beatles are an endless topic of discussion. I think there is some consensus:the early tube cut copies are preferable to the later masterings- rather than try to sort through this thicke... | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? @jji666 - fair point, and the conventional wisdom is that speakers and audio systems in general should be genre agnostic...The presentation will be enhanced by a better system in my estimation. I use horns in my main system and though those aren’t... |