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| best cd player used under 2k. Just curious, why spend 2,000 on a used CDP with outdated upsampling, dac, filters etc when you can get excellent new outboard DAC with state of the art electonics for well under 2,000? | |
| Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts Park West in Chicago, Armitage & Clark St, small venue (1-2,000) club that was very posh and had great sound. From 1978-85 I saw many concerts, U2 from 1981 has to be close to best ever. Couple miles up Clark St you had Cabaret Metro near Wrig... | |
| Musical Fidelity A3CD player It is a very transparant, detailed, and in my system very dynamic. As good as any player in the under $1000 new market. If you are looking for lush, warm player this is not for you. Sam Tellig, Wes Phillips, and British Audio press universally giv... | |
| Shakti Stone? Of course it all depends and the design and existing EMF shielding of each component. I have played with stones on various pieces, easy to test just listen with and without, and I feel they don't make a noticable improvement. As a matter of fact I... | |
| High End and Classical Music My music library is 60% rock/alt and 40% classical. Don't need any special equipment as classical recorings almost always are much higher quality than main stream rock. Enjoy the good gear you have now and fine tune with cables and isolation devic... | |
| Favorite Classical Conductor Followup And of course the Brahms 4th on DG originals. I had at one time a Beethoven 4th CD on "Orfeo" label that was also quite good by C Klieber. Unfortunately very limited number of recordings available. Why are there so few recordings, any opinions? | |
| B&W Nautilus 803 & 804 Vs The World Calvin the BW 802 is one of the most aesthetically beautiful speakers ever made, absolutely stunning. The 803 & 4 are also very nice but the 802 is the full culmination of this design. The midrange and tweeter enclosures are works of art, and ... | |
| What CD is your System Reference Dire Straits "sultans of swing" is a HDCD best of collection from 1998, this about as good as any main stream rock album I have ever heard! Lucinda Williams is very good, I agree with Craig. The Sade "best of sade" contains 1994 mastering of her g... | |
| Snake oil and tweaks that work! Retro is being very serious, this hard freeze concept has been around for years. The theory I have heard is the hard freeze and slow thaw releases impurities introduced during CD manufacturing process, which can then be cleaned away. Also supposed... | |
| Snake oil and tweaks that work! I like the Auric Illuminator treatment for Cds, which I apply to any CD that I detect treble grain/hardness, which is over half my Rock/alt music section. Will give a slightly smoother cleaner sound without detail loss. Also like Kontak connector ... | |
| Rogue 66 upgrade Can someone explain what all is involved in the upgrade and what the cost is to have it done? | |
| Contact cleaners/What's good? Galen Carol discussion, http://www.gcaudio.com/Archives/howto.html | |
| Contact cleaners/What's good? Dave, here is link to Galen Carol Audio discussion on cleaning products and how to best clean connections. He also recommends Kontak after trying many others. BTW I have used Kontak for many years, and have heard nothing that improves sound to the... | |
| Contact cleaners/What's good? Bob B & Lak & Randal are absolutely correct, I strongly recommend Kontak, no residue left behind. To my hearing much better sounding that Caig products in direct comparison I did. | |
| McCormack DNA 0.5 vs Musical Fidelity A3 Tracer I am amazed at how good the A3 can sound with some other gear: Definitely get good AC cord like Shunyata Sidewinder or SilverAudio PowerBurst, use Bi-wire to speakers. Next level is to bi-amp with another MF power amp like X-AS100 or A3cr u... |