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Alexd wrote :"...most of them do not sound as good as good quality 16Bits cd transport...""Most of them"... Well you are honest; enough so to admit that some do, though they may not be of your own creation."...Our DAC improved computer generated...
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Well, the issue you are talking about is very complex. You have many components in your signal chain, that contribute to the noise and signal quality,not only in power supply,but also in the signal chain ckts. The USB A/D converters have their own po...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Here is the Roy Gregory’s take on Zanden 2500S CD Playerhttp://www.avguide.com/review/the-zanden-model-2500s-cd-playerMuch must more sane comments and much less idiotic aplomb that had came from the SoundStage.com guy.S...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anyhow, the point is that audio people do not deal with original raw digital file therefore their comments about Analog vs. Digital are not relevant as they do not see the true digital but rather a digital crap. [/quote]Hi ...
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[quote user="Antonio J."]then it will be worth exploring. I have always missed in my playback the way the air in a concert hall gets filled of sound, as if notes and specially their armonics were flowing upwards. The TU-X1 does that trick quite nicel...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]It is interesting that you call $30.000 plus dollars "super expensive". A few days ago somebody sent me a link to a review of a new TechDAS turntable with a price tag of $380.000. I wonder what kind adjectives would you ...
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The main trouble I've had with digital is that I've always compared it to analog, both master tapes and LP playback, and I've always tried to get the whole mess to remind me somehow of live acoustic music; at least I've aimed to get the "same things"...
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I think the main idea, like you say, is to enjoy. For someone to take the time every day or even every week to sit down and relax a couple of hours and just listen to music, and close thier eyes and concentrate on Mozart or even Patricia Barber is ...
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Dmitry, I have no idea. I always felt that Dynavector 10x4 is some kind of rock-in-roll cartridge and never had it. Still, it $200 cartridge, or way sub $200 in Japan, and it should not be a big deal to exchange it if necessary. The surface noise mig...
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There are many ways to deal with EAR-843PT. To my ears it works wonderfully, this in my case it coupled with Expressive Technologies ET2 transformer that probably takes in totally new league. I kind of so addicted to this transformer that I even run ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
I look forward to propose the JUSTNESS AND JUSTNESS IN ANALOG JUDGMENT. If Micro-Seiki RX-5000 SOUNDS better then turntables that are being sold for $75K and if there are some idiots out there who scream that t...
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Guy, I do not know about the multi-drive TTs. Personally I have suspicion but this suspicion based mostly on my prejudice and my wishful thinking then on the facts. Whatever TT’s with multi-drive I have seen did not impress me, and, what was the mor...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]The concept of self-testing boot cycle is nice one but it for sure could not be done during the amp booting. Some tubes do need to warm up and reach the cruse temperature in order to be tested, some do not. Some tunes (lik...
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[quote user="peter foster"] Since obtaining a pair of 'reference' microphones, microphone pre-amplifier and analog-to-digital converter as part of my playback system I have learned much about 'relative reality', 'transformation of reality', 'reinstat...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Why should it be so expensive of complex of even simple and cheap $100 turntables already produce speed stability that is order of magnitude more stable that it is imaginable to hear.Teh caT[/quote]isn't that a bit too fa...
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[quote user="Antonio J."]So I thought my tuner weren't properly adjusted. It has not been serviced nor recently aligned, I have no proficient technicians around who I depend to let them put their hands into the tuner. The damn thing always ...
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Well, I'm not convinced.First things first. Yes I don't know specifics of FM recording, but what I know in general about recording is enough for me to conclude that sound processed threw converters A-D and back D-A is going to be ... well, processed....
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Like I said in several tuner/antenna threads here, I have never had good classical FM/programming to tune in to, anywhere I've ever lived. And my travels suggest that your good times in Boston were an exception, versus the usual fare in other metrop...
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Apparently, TTs are so mysterious that anything goes, as long as it's long, convoluted, and circular. Multiple DC motors "make sense" if one starts by believing that an AC motor naturally slaves to its sine wave and polarity, and that this behavior ...
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[quote user="dkarmeli"]is that the operating word is "Turntable Collection". The Air Force One (hate the name!) is the culmination of the great Micro Seiki's coming full circle and once again starting a new chapter in high end analog reproduction, th...
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Hm, I took the anti-RIAA signal converted and run CD player into the phonostage. The RIAA curve was fine and the effect of the HF volume and frequency-depended quantization did not expose itself. So, it looks like the phonostage is not a problem afte...
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[quote user="Stitch"]In Germany are a few analog groups, some build their turntable with a piece of wood and a knife and think it is great, some prefer old Linn, Garrads, Thorens as the only, real solution to listen to and others refuse to listen to ...
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Hi Romy,Yes I would love to hear the same segment from your analog setup for comparison. I think it would be very interesting even though there are so many variables that it probably doesn't tell me much in an absolute sense. I don't really disagre...
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I was just cruising the site, mining it for information (as I often do), when I ran across this "orphaned" thread with the "dangling" posts at the end. I suppose it's time to update this thread and in so doing close the book on it.Since I wrote the ...
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Well the marketing power can change dirt into gold, we all know that. I have no problems with manufacturers who offer "such" units. We, the customers (especially here in this Forum) are fixed on the quality of sound. Some years ago there was a meetin...
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It's a very easy to use, little space and processor consuming, free tool that I'm regularly using to record onto my hardisk the radio program my brother in law broadcasts thru internet. It can be configured to record from the S/PDIF or any other digi...
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This weekend I decide to take my FM where it should be. I ran ~125” and installed a dipole on the roof of my building and serviced my tuner. The result was as expected but there was something unexpected. Along with all normal benefits of better anten...
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The new reference Lavry that eventually does 4X is a very cool idea. The volume control is a bit damn thing to have in there, particularly for pro unit but it is what it is, thank God it is analog volume control anyhow. The mono switch is also a coo...
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Maybe it's not really "funny", but almost all "contemporary" recordings are immediately subject to DSP. Likewise, most amplified sound at contemporary venues. Not saying it doesn't matter anymore, but it matters much more when considering DSP vs en...
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Interesting discussion. I am now thinking of John Wright, the guy who mods the (old...) Museatex DACs to get the best sound overall that I've heard from digital sources. Sure, he has his patent approach to deciphering digital, but John has always sa...
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