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| Vinyl Me Please...well, not anymore Was never part of their "club" but did want the reissue of Joshua Judges Ruth on vinyl. Apparently, so many copies had issues- warps, non-fill, etc. I finally found a reseller on the secondary market who verified that the copy on offer was a clean... | |
| HDMI cable to utilize I2s Connection from LAIV uddc to Denafrips Terminator 2 @hbarrel- thanks for that. At some point, I may try to directly connect the ET3 to the DAC without the DDC just to hear the difference. | |
| Recorded Cleaning Machnies @gano- one of the nice things about Neil's book is that in the course of explaining what is going on in the process of cleaning a record, he offers methods to do this without using a machine. It will require you to buy some chemicals and inexpensi... | |
| Recorded Cleaning Machnies @antinn Thanks, Neil. @gano - the answer is that proportion of older copies that have been contaminated. Visually, you may not see this. I was buying a considerable number of "rare" records and in some cases, particular pressings, that were eith... | |
| Recorded Cleaning Machnies I'll add a few things. First, I started using an ultrasonic machine to clean records when the Audio Desk original model came out. I found that it did a nice job on well preserved and new records but if you buy older copies, or have copies with a q... | |
| Would you buy a tube amp if you were unable to use vintage tubes in it ? @musicfan2349- I was pretty picky about my cigars too and probably had more depth in those at one point than in NOS tubes (which have all kinds of nuances re where manufactured, when, getter, and other internals and I only have knowledge of the tu... | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback Just when you least expect it, the Spanish Inquisition! :) | |
| Would you buy a tube amp if you were unable to use vintage tubes in it ? @wrm57- not a problem. I mistyped your screen name earlier. I did find another cup base GEC U-52, this time a black base, not a brown base. I think it is an earlier production, although someone else who had a lot of these said that the brown base ... | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback @lewm said: "I hate this sort of thread, but I am bored." You need a hobby! :) | |
| Develop a hierarchy for phono playback I can change the voicing of my entire system simply by changing the rectifier in the power supply to my phono stage. The biggest improvement to my current main system, the core of which started in 2006, was probably the change in cartridge, but ev... | |
| Why does USB feature so much in discussions about DACs when the newer HDMI seems better? I don't have much invested in my digital front end, I'm mainly a vinyl guy, but the I2s connection made a noticeable improvement in performance using a DDC from a player via usb and outputting I2s into the DAC. The player has an I2s output as well... | |
| Would you buy a tube amp if you were unable to use vintage tubes in it ? @wmr57- my doppelgänger--you still using the Allnic phono pre? I rolled a bunch of rectifiers in that, finding the sweetspot for me, given my system voicing, to be the GEC U-52 cup base. I have a metal base Mullard (really a Philips-Miniwatt from ... | |
| Would you buy a tube amp if you were unable to use vintage tubes in it ? @bigtwin I think the answer was supposed to be the transistor but I've been around long enough to remember how much better the ARC SP3 preamp sounded than its solid state competition in the early-mid '70s. And, insofar as tube manufacture is conce... | |
| Would you buy a tube amp if you were unable to use vintage tubes in it ? I'd ask the opposite question- does the unit sound good with a modern production tube? Good old stock is depleted and pricey- yeah, I run them but it gets harder to source replacements. And in my experience, there is a big difference in sound amon... | |
| Desperate to Get Back to Horns One speaker that you might explore is the Pure Audio Project Trio. It has a pretty dominating appearance, is open baffle, can be set up with a variety of midrange drivers, upgrades, etc. Apparently very efficient though may be a little bass shy. S... |