bill_k
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| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! @ricred1 - Haven't heard the Absolare myself but have only read good things about it. Did you hear it driving your speakers? From what I know about your MAs I don't think the Absolare would have sufficient power for them either. Since your wife li... | |
| Another favorite cartridge vanishes.. Dynavector 17D3. GONE! replaced.. @chakster I admire both the quality of your pics as well as how clean you keep your cantilever and stylus! From the first macro pic you can see that the stylus has a square shank which is mounted to the finely machined tapered diamond cantilever. ... | |
| Another favorite cartridge vanishes.. Dynavector 17D3. GONE! replaced.. @chakster - Thanks for sharing that article with details of several unique designs from Dynavector. Still unclear about the validity of your previous claim that the 17DS diamond cantilever and stylus are one piece. TIA! | |
| Another favorite cartridge vanishes.. Dynavector 17D3. GONE! replaced.. From all of the details posted above I didn't see anything confirming that the cantilever and stylus of the 17DS was actually machined from a single piece of diamond. What is apparently unique to the DS is its solid tapered diamond cantilever comb... | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC @jburidan - With all due respect the Bricasti M1 DAC doesn’t even use a Sabre chip and never has (it uses a highly rated DAC from Analog Devices.) I also agree that there's much more to the sonic performance of a DAC than a particular chip being u... | |
| How to play DVD-Audio discs on laptop? DVD Audio Extractor is PC software which permits you to extract the high resolution audio tracks from DVD discs and then play them back from the resultant files. Pretty easy to setup and use according to your preferences and there is a free 30 day... | |
| Stylast black brush: missing now days.. Why? I like using the black brush These seem to be very similar at the lowest price I could find: https://www.lpgear.com/product/LPSTYLBRUSH.html | |
| Micro Acoustics 2002e It was somewhat of a renowned design in its day, but that was about 40 years ago. The problem with cartridges of that age is that their suspension and damping elastomers usually harden and will not perform as they were designed to. Never know unti... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Laufer Teknik has their own showrooms in New Jersey and Connecticut as well as some other dealers. http://www.lauferteknik.com/about/ | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD @david_ten - If you like NOS PCM DAC designs (no DSD), I suggest you check out the Metrum Acoustics Adagio which is their top of the line. It incorporates a unique volume control implementation which varies the operating voltage of the DAC rather ... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Well, those hints eliminate the D'Agostino M400s and Moon 888s... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! ... even though we can't all afford some of this gear, or for those that can but may choose to use their money in other ways, we can live vicariously through this thread and the shared experiences of our fellow audiophiles. | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! I've only heard the Wells amps at shows, never in my own system to directly compare with any other amps. Nevertheless their capabilities were apparent even in an unfamiliar system. I'm sorry that my limited exposure with them wouldn't permit me to... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! I've had the pleasure of hearing the Wells amp (Signature version as well) and they're quite impressive. While they don't have the ultimate power levels that some of the other amps here do, they're extremely refined and excel at reproducing natura... | |
| Bricasti M1 DAC vs PS Audio Direct Stream DAC https://www.google.com/search?q=Fourteener+Mountains |