zaikesman
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| Exactpower Ep15a or PS-Audio p500 Well, scratch my speculation about the new Power Plant Premier using a switching output amp. When I ACTUALLY WENT TO THE PS AUDIO WEBSITE AND READ ABOUT IT (real tough, that!), it was made clear that what's different now is a new type of tracking ... | |
| What to expect from MONO Play some mono CDs if you have any to double check. Room anomolies, or issues with speaker positioning or unmatched speaker drivers (or pre/power amp tubes), should cause simmilar effects as with vinyl. If not, then it's probably alignment or cart... | |
| New Classic Records Coloured Vinyl I don't think there's anything inherent about the non-black colors themselves that makes records noisier, and it's been suggested that the translucent varieties may even have the potential to be slightly quieter than black or other opaque colors. ... | |
| missed buying opportunities ["Termitity"? Nice one Z...ah, that would be "temerity". The guy may have been my nemesis, but I don't think he had termites! :~)] | |
| Can you imagine a world without vinyl? Bondmanp: The change to vinyl and turntables "becoming hip with young people" already occurred a long time ago now, but it was because of hip hop, not anything related to audiophile sound matters. | |
| missed buying opportunities I once missed out on getting a vintage sunburst Gibson ES-225 with double P-90's advertised in a local classified for a mere $200 because I first went by my bank's ATM to get cash because I assumed the seller wouldn't want a check. So when I got t... | |
| van den hul usa? Andre is no longer the US distributor. The vdh-usa.com site and online store have been taken down. Bluebird of Ontario is the new US distributor, although as of last check there is nothing about vdH posted on their website yet. But I understand th... | |
| Can you imagine a world without vinyl? Eldartford: Am I correct in thinking from your post that your CD sound is being output from the player in analog, then reconverted to digital and back again in the EQ? | |
| Can you imagine a world without vinyl? 130dB dynamic range is more than sufficient for our ears I think, but Eldartford's point about the resolution of low-level signals with fixed vs. floating LSB schemes is interesting, and seems like it could possibly have some bearing on why audiop... | |
| Can you imagine a world without vinyl? Agree that it makes sense for the LSB to lie below the noise floor, or for the system S/N ratio to be defined by that noise floor rather than the bit-depth. What I meant to suggest was that beyond a certain point there ceases to be a real world ad... | |
| Can you imagine a world without vinyl? I thought that, when it comes to digital audio, there's only so much bit-depth, or S/N ratio, that can pertain in any case, due to the limits of both the noise floor of all the analog parts of the record/playback chain (including the listening roo... | |
| What? No Norah Jones New CD Thread? Whart: Not that it sounds like a modern 'audiophile' type recording by any means -- and is all the better for it IMO -- but to me the original vinyl of Etta's "At Last" LP on Argo has wonderful sound. (As for Janis, I feel her most effective perfo... | |
| Best sounding phono preamp under $600 Agree with Simon74 on the Camelot Lancelot about its sound quality, not that I've tried the others. It's a bit homely though, and ungainly to place with its two boxes and umbilicals. The preamp itself is so small, lightweight, and unconventionalll... | |
| Difference between a 380S and upgraded 38 to 380S? I can't claim 100% certainty about this (my 380S is a factory original), but I don't believe there's any difference at all. I can vouch that the 380S is a better-sounding preamp though. Why not ask the company directly if you're in doubt? | |
| What? No Norah Jones New CD Thread? Well why, if Eva Cassidy, Bonnie Raitt and Janis Joplin are to be considered "excellent" blues vocalists, then not Norah Jones too? Uh, thanks but no thanks, I'll stick with the real -- meaning black, just in case there was any doubt -- blues sing... |