nilthepill
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hedgehog, what a coincidence!!I started with Lucinda Williams - WestAir- Pocket SymphonyAllison Krauss and Union Station Live (first two records)John Renbourne - Sir John Alot | |
| What is the best DAC ever made? Well, I am not a distributor but proud owner of the Metronome Kalista/C2A signature DAC combo (for few months now) and upon extended listening in my own system it rivals my two well reserched and set up analog set-ups. The Kalista/c2a combo simply... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Casual Listening:Kanye West- Late RegistrationJay Z- The Black AlbumMotor- KlunkCritical Listening:My morning jacket- OkonokosLucinda Williams- WestJohn Renbourne-The Lady and Unicorn | |
| Any Can fans out there? I especially love Future Days and Ege Bamyasi. Of the similar genre of Kraut Rock, I also like Amon Duul, Faust, Manuel Gottsching, Neu and of course Kraftwerk. | |
| Diana Krall - New Vinyl - Good sound - Poor Vinyl My Diana Krall Vinyl had some metallic coatings in the groove. It took few washings, but still the 'area' sounds bad.Norah Jones Vinyl OTH is flawless. | |
| Music that has good cymbals MICHAEL CARVIN: Drum Concerto At Dawn from Maple shade label CDs has tremendous amount of cymbals (and of course drums) | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Vashti Bunyans's new Vinyl. Simply gorgeous music and sound!!Air's 'Pocket Symphony' on CD. ( until Vinyl is issued) | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players Ditto here. Ctm_cra it was just a joke (i made reduntant disclaimers, if you noticed). Tvad's pharse 'Tag Team' inspired the joke.But I think only one person should front the thread. It is easier that way to avoid mixed up story. And you are doing... | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players Tvad, How do we know The Tag Team is not getting any kickbacks from APL? ;-). (Wink wink. Toungue firmly planted in cheek) Sorry can't resist! | |
| Blind Shoot-out in San Diego -- 5 CD Players IMO, Just two tracks (and both classical at that) are not enough to claim any digital pairing superior over the other. You need varied kind of music. well recorded acoustic music is preferable of course. PLUS few hours between five units are also ... | |
| What phono preamps are balanced Clearaudio Balanced Reference Phono (Dual mono) stage has both balanced inuputs and outputs | |
| Upsampling put to "THE TEST": R U ready 2 take it? Zaikesman, I just stumbled upon this thread via current thread called 'Up and Over sampling Is one superior to other' by Blindjim.Have you done any updates/auditions with current batch of reference UP and oversampling DACs. Has your conclusion cha... | |
| The Best Midrange in the World Right Now Arthur said what I am thinking. Taming down of upper high freq extremes is a key to natural midrange."When the spectral balance is descending, the feeling is also more comfortable. Afterall, tonal balance is relative to itself." a words to live by... | |
| CES / THE Show I don't get MBL's "Ref" sound also in all MBL systems. Although with different front ends ( say very well set up TT), the same ref pre-amp, amps and speakers perform very very well to approach Ref sound. So it must be the MBL digital front end!! | |
| Turntables from 1-10: Personality 8.5 Beauty 12 La Luce By SPJ will surpass your scale both in Beauty (12) and personality (performance-10). I also like the Clearaudio Master Ref series with Everest stand look. Higher end range of Transrotor TTs will also reach your target ratings. |