whart
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| 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... | |
| How to choose a cartridge you can't hear on your system? I don't know if @ddk is around. David has a flock of wonderful, rare old cartridges, some exotic, some simply older iterations of the well-worn Ortofon SPU. I don't know whether he does anything to refresh them--but suspect he wouldn't be doing an... | |
| How to choose a cartridge you can't hear on your system? I’m not sure how easy this problem--and it is a problem, at least with expensive moving coil cartridges- is to solve. Ideally, a dealer would have a few different cartridges set up, using the same arm and table. But, dealers are typically limited ... | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? I've owned my pair of Quad ESLs since 1973. They were eventually put to the side (and eventually into crates) while I used the Crosby modified 63, which was, overall, a better performing speaker in terms of bass, dynamics and dispersion, but they ... | |
| Austin Record Convention I missed Trytone, though I was apparently next to his booth. So, take anything I say with a grain....Rockodrome from San Antonio had some serious hard/prog/avant grade stuff, Flied Egg original, Cressida s/t from Australia on Fontana (rare) at rea... | |
| LP's... Do they sound better now than 30 yrs ago? Every used record has a story. We just don't know what it is. | |
| Is a power supply beneficial for component SQ if you have a quality power conditioner? This may help get you started. My aim was to cover ancillaries, have a decent transformer, and the ability to adjust voltage and current (limiting) while being cheap. I'm sure there are some better grade units out there, but to power the DSP and t... | |
| Is a power supply beneficial for component SQ if you have a quality power conditioner? I think @erik_squires got it right. The issue with the wall warts isn't so much that they don't supply the necessary power, but whether the switching type are creating a backwash of noise in the rest of your system. With the Schumann generator, th... | |
| LP's... Do they sound better now than 30 yrs ago? Inna, that’s fine. Just to be clear, I’m not talking about fixing scratches, it’s more the distortion that you hear when it sounds like the record has been played on a bad record player and the groove noise is high- to the point of distortion. Als... | |
| LP's... Do they sound better now than 30 yrs ago? @inna - happy to engage in a little experimentation with you; just send me a PM. I am a little unclear about the protocol you are proposing because no two records are the same, and if we are talking about older records that have seen some mishandl... |