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I agree that that article was one of the few that I would have been happy to affix "Steverino" to. I know that Romy has minimum high regard for SACD and I am not particularly keen on it myself. But since I only have about 75 CDs/SACDs I have never se...
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Hello Frank David, Thanks for sharing this great Spotify Music Converter for you to remove DRM from Spotify tracks. Here, I'd like to share my Spotify Music Converter for Mac, called AudFree for you. Hope you will like it. As for burning CD from Spot...
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Hi Romy,Ok why be so specific. I don't want to be seen defending participants in the audio industry. However, why stop there? What about the morons who are interested in audio and whose money keeps the industry morons in employment. 99% of those peop...
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Well, the added benefits of cross-source validation is that some of the sources are stable but others are less stable and might vary in its basic quality with time. For instance digital is very stable and since you once set it up properly then it rem...
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Well, I think the in this inquiry would be the use of CEC TLOX transport. If you do putting together a system from the ground up then it is arguable if it makes sense to commit yourself with CEC TLOX. This transport is from the last century and i...
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[quote user="scooter"]Gentlemen:
...*Regarding playback, I misspoke in my original post of an "Audiophile music server." Upon further reflection, this is an oxymoron, if not a moronic phrase. I think it is highly unlikely that a dedicated audiop...
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I ripped my Cd player (to old to mention ) output stage and replaced it with SS J-fet phono preamp .I took RIaa components out .The dac puts out only 20mV so the MM stage with separate PSU and discrete J-fet regulators seems adequte for the job. Whol...
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[quote user="DOT*SYSTEM"] OK Romy, I get it. You may believe that the act of the DVD-A creation software will alter the music bits as seen by the transport/DAC. I believe the software is only encapsulating the data into the DVD-A binary image. [/...
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Two reasons that audiophile designers always harp on the analog end of the CD player: they don't have the wherewithal to develop a new ADC algorithm and they believe the word "analog" sells boxes. I thought there were already digital audio devices th...
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I had some experience with bad electricity so i would like to share it here. My audio system does not have ground loop. 1- digital sources (I have CD Player) is more sensitive to Bad Electricity than Pre/Powers. 2- if your audio system Continuously p...
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How ironic that I finally got my phono running through the ML2s, and just as you say, it was not all it should be. In fact, I would have to say at this point that I am getting better sound from my crappy CD player, which I u...
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It does seem a puzzle. I would strongly doubt that the house took a lightning strike without you noticing, assuming you were at home during the storm. Additionally since there is apparently no mention of lightning in the area that seems unlikely. I d...
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can this be anything else but futile?1) If analogue the first thing be the cart, if digital the payer?2) If analogue the phono cable being the MOST important one in the whole system, and could yield some noticeable improvement.3) Has the system got a...
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Oh, no, I’m absolutely not going to go to this route. I absolutely certainly do not want to have any vacuum tubes in there, not kneeboard and mouse, no recording options, not switching or commutating, it need to have one single button to tune of and...
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Han-Na Chang won the Rostropovich Cello Competition at age 11 in 1997. Her debut CD was Tchaikovsky and Saint-Saens in 1995 under the baton of Rostropovich. She lived near me, north of NY City. She earned the post of Associate Principal of New York P...
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Romy, thanks for the tip. One of the great joys in my life is being bowled over by a work and/or performance with which I am not familiar, such as the Cleveland's Ravel Quartet in F. I will have to find a CD or LP of the Boston's Ravel Trio, or may...
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Hi thereI've heard them a few times driven by Audio Research power plant amp and their best tube CD player. My friendly dealer explained to me principles of Vandersteen design. Small woofer (because big one isn't fast enough ??) with its own plate am...
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I lost all hope for horn loaded Lowther speakers . Got Phile Mikey (fremmer) recommended TT and new old MC cartrige (benz Mc3) so analong front sounds comparable to old modded MCintosh CD player I have. I finished (took al ong time ) Hagerman c...
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I think it would be quite difficult for anyone to set up any sort of production of drive units and not become an 'industry' participant. It's quite remarkable that you manage to use a turntable, arms, cartridges, CD Player, Tuner, pre-amp and cables ...
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It may be asking too much to expect the LF horn to play well up to and beyond 250Hz. Although the mid horn probably has an Fc of 200Hz the associated driver isn't going to be functioning optimally at the crossover point either. How well this marr...
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KOTriode, I was not criticizing your DAC, whatever it is. I was saying that system-design-wise if your preamp was able to inflict such a dramatic change in Sound then in my view it just highlighted the problem with DAC. Take another DAC, or any comme...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Celsius, I think you do not take in your equation the input voltage. If you bias 6E5P with 4.1V then it can pass 4V with no feedback. Since the tube has under normal circumstances 33 times gain then you have 132V RMS from ...
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I think I've worn myself out. I was able to determine that my CD player does damage the 88.2 when it upsamples to 192. However comparing the two 88.2 files yours does seem to have more impact, more speed in the attack of the drums for instance. Un...
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Reggie, I've also made some critical observations about Gould's playing recently, while comparing his '55 and '81 Goldberg variations via my truly terrible company truck CD player.Yes, the best version of this cycle I have heard is the original '55 v...
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Perhaps some people thought I was kidding when I suggested using a mid-fi system to audition for SOTA phono cartridges... It took me almost 10 years to find a replacement for my old Sony CD player because, despite the fact that several I heard w...
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I had today a fantastic listening experience and made today a stunning discovery.
I was very exhausted today, did not feel good – a life of self-employed contractors sometimes we need to work while sick… Dot home, had a lot of work to do and ...
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Sorry for that, the first tapes were pretty good and I got excited, some of the latter ones, well.I do not consider it a live format, but I want to have a few good tapes mostly as reference of playback.About digital I am happy to say that direct co...
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Since I haven't complained about it for a couple of days, my company truck's CD player is so bad that it gets almost nothing right, ever.Still, while subjecting myself to this singularly terrible sound, I began to notice that every so often some ...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Reggie, I've also made some critical observations about Gould's playing recently, while comparing his '55 and '81 Goldberg variations via my truly terrible company truck CD player.Yes, the best version of this cycle I have heard ...
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[quote user="Henry"]I've heard these Haniwa speakers on Sunday. They sounded terrible. My niece and her boyfriend went on Friday and couldn't get Kubo to play something other than classical music. When playing classical music, the sound was...
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