zaikesman
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| My highest praise - for Audiogon Agree with all praise of A-Gon, but must agree with Artemus, Driver, and Ryan about the invalidity, in my view, of the auction complaint. I don't understand just where the supposed foul is that Trelja and JC are so upset about, and I *really* don'... | |
| Upsampling the way to go? ? Tim, I thought interpolation *was* "upsampling", whereas increasing word length was accomplished by adding randomly generated dither below the signal level, so it sounds to me like *you* might be confusing two separate things. But then again, what... | |
| Is Your System Better Than the Music You Like? Ivan, I possess two somewhat-vintage equalizers at my disposal, a Soundcraftsman 15 band per channel graphic (complete with noise generator and microphone metering), and a rare Sony Esprit 3 band per channel full parametric (which is built inside ... | |
| Is Your System Better Than the Music You Like? I've long known that I'm in the same boat you describe, except that I own no "audiophile" pressings or such at all. In fact, not only does a lot of the music I love not qualify as even coming close to being recorded with the quality of the "absolu... | |
| HDCD vs. SACD vs. ?? If you want a better-sounding digital source right now, buying some sort of player that handles CD's is the only way to accomplish it - for the forseeable future, as well. There are billions more CD's in the world currently and into the next decad... | |
| MM vs. MC: Sonic Differences? Marakanetz - Just a note: VTA sensitivity should primarily be a function of stylus shape, not generator type. | |
| Will Microsoft kill DVD-A and SACD? I argee with Garfish, CD's with or without HDCD are a low density storage medium by today's standards. For multi-channel music storage they are either too limited in resolution or running time to provide a viable high quality medium. I don't have ... | |
| John Entwistle RIP Not to mention that half of The Ramones are dead now. R.I.P. Dee Dee. | |
| John Entwistle RIP Jimi, Jeff, Pete, Jimmy, Eric; I could go on, but the point is we all remember the guitar heros who in the 60's revolutionized the way the instrument could be played - and there were many. But on bass, there was really only one. (Great writer and ... | |
| Integrated Amp for Girlfriend? She's losing her job, and you're messing around looking at dinky little slim-line boxes? Quit playing cheap and get her a C-J CAV-50 or a VTL IT-85, if you want to keep her past the unemployment checks! | |
| Will Microsoft kill DVD-A and SACD? I hadn't known, but do find it curious, that MS would invest in HDCD. After all, it's certainly not the future of music data storage (neither is CD in general), most current hardware doesn't decode it, and the percentage of software manufactured u... | |
| Maggies or Martin Logans? Although I generally prefer the sound of Maggies to MLs when it comes to the models that are available used in your price range, I will point out that in a tightly-spaced HT setup, the curved panel design of the MLs may be preferrable for it's wid... | |
| MM vs. MC: Sonic Differences? I've owned both types, but they were sufficiently different that any sonic comparision couldn't simply be boiled down to MM vs. MC. From what I understand, the main theoretical advantage of MC design is lower moving mass, something that's easy eno... | |
| What companies have gone above and beyond? Conrad-Johnson did repairs under warranty to my amp that were neccesitated by tube failure when running aftermarket and NOS tubes they recommended against, for no charge. Thiel sent replacement drivers under warranty for ones that were damaged by ... | |
| Monarchy 24/96 DIP There are some old threads on this topic you may want to research in the archives. I own the same DAC as you and a Pearl transport, and I noticed the same improvement in HF extension with the DIP 24/96 added as Mr. D, as well as more incisive tran... |