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| dcs puccini, chord red ref, meitner cdsa or nagra Chadeffect said:"you mention redbook playback. The Emm lab and DCS give you the choice of playing either SACD or redbook disks. The bonus i guess being they upsample rebook to dsd."The Playback Designs MPS-5 also upsamples to DSD. My redbook libra... | |
| Jazz artists for late starter. Oem, so Miles is ok because he's dead by Roy Hargrove isn't eligible because he's alive? Billie Holiday is ok (dead again) but not Casandra Wilson?If the guy doesn't like Ella, no way he's going to like Billie.The idea is to try to help the guy, n... | |
| Jazz artists for late starter. Oscar actually has one recording where he sings, believe it or not. Given your constraints you'd want to avoid that one. It blew my mind when I heard it, because he sounded like Nat King Cole. I guess Oscar figured that the world only needed one N... | |
| Jazz artists for late starter. 06-26-08: Oem said:"Your taste in jazz encompasses many different styles.If you seek out any artist that is no longer with us you cant go wrong"So you think he'll like Art Ensemble of Chicago, Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra??? I doubt it. I don't even... | |
| Vinyl or wait for the new stuff?? Chashmal, why would you say SACD is a joke? I'm finding that it meets and/or beats vinyl, depending on the engineering. For instance, all the SACD reissues of the classica RCA recordings of the 1950s are as good or superior to my "shaded dog" copi... | |
| dcs puccini, chord red ref, meitner cdsa or nagra There will be a Playback Designs web site, they've just focused on production of the product first. They're building production capacity right now and meeting current demand. Getting ahead with marketing is an easy mistake to make. The current str... | |
| Jazz artists for late starter. Gawdbless said:"I just like the music, being a piano player, I really like and appreciate the way Bill Evans plays and the cd 'Trio 65' is excellent! a minor down side is the brushes, I love the snap of a stick hitting a snare drum. Brushes should... | |
| dcs puccini, chord red ref, meitner cdsa or nagra I don't get your point Bar81. The ball is not hidden. Is not the VOSP line one of the very best??? Is selection of a particular model going to change your decsision as to whether to give it a listen or not? What if TEAC built a custom part, based ... | |
| Okay......best single box reference CD player Well said Emigene.Dave | |
| A good DAC: AN kondo, dCS or EMM labs ? Ok, now you're blowing my mind. I went to the Memory Player site and see that it has a 32-bit, tube DAC. The claim to fame of the MP, besides the 32-bit DAC, is that it reads the source disc into a large memory and re-reads as part of the error co... | |
| dcs puccini, chord red ref, meitner cdsa or nagra VOSP is all they want to say, for now.Dave | |
| Jazz artists for late starter. Remember, he doesn't like vocalists. (Hate to see someone miss so much good stuff, but...) | |
| A good DAC: AN kondo, dCS or EMM labs ? Can you give a link to what you're considering as a "memory player"? | |
| dcs puccini, chord red ref, meitner cdsa or nagra The transport is an Esoteric SACD/CD. Web site to come... ;-)Dave | |
| A good DAC: AN kondo, dCS or EMM labs ? What do you mean by "memory player"? Is that a music server or a CD/SACD transport? If so, which one?You're listing high end, so I assume a hi-rez source. I'd focus on DACs with open architecture that can handle sampling rates up to DSD one-bit, 5... |