nevillekapadia
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| Best CD player money can buy ? MBL, Nagra, Naim? Try auditioning the new Spectral launched at CES. I has no SACD playback and is designed solely for Red Book CD and HDCD in mind. Apparently it will list for a cool US$17-18K and was recommended by Robert Harley from TAS too. Most importantly you ... | |
| Will an anti-jitter / upsampling device pass AC3? It will pass it through!!!Hope that answers your question in a more simpler way.Nev | |
| Managing EMM Fiber Optic cables Rgs92-At $3K a set, I really wonder how many would have perceived the value! | |
| Managing EMM Fiber Optic cables I somehow prefer to leave them unwound or large loops. They seem to sound better that way. Give it a week at least. Having tried (didn't like) the stock cables as these take long time to settle in, I have gone through Aural Symphonics initial AT&a... | |
| Would treated CD's or OOP's-hold its value later? Kana, you are so right with tweaks on poor soinding CD's. We did the same tweak on the Police SACD and it did lift up the level of red book just short of the SACD quality, but did not have much effect on the SACD layer.Tweaks do change the sound, ... | |
| Would treated CD's or OOP's-hold its value later? Osgorth thanks for your suggestion, but I struggle with time to listen. Let alone having to burn them to a CD-R as also suggested by the dealer of the tweaks.At the moment due to my travels, I am acquiring more CD's than I can listen to. Nice posi... | |
| Would treated CD's or OOP's-hold its value later? Hi Kana,The reason why I say it is a 5% improvement, as the dealer who used the cutting lathe, nespa pro'ed (30secs) the Cd and then used the Nanaotech fluid on his own Cd copy, of which I have the same, left it with me to audition over a few days... | |
| Would treated CD's or OOP's-hold its value later? Viridian/Qdrone/Shawn thanks for your insights. I will stick to no modification, as it's just not seem to be worth the extra 5% sound improvement. | |
| Would treated CD's or OOP's-hold its value later? The lathe that cuts the edge of the CD polymer has been about 3-4 years old as a tweak. It is yet to early to decifer if it will start pitting the aluminum or not. A few of my old CD's drom early 80's had the aluminum right to the centre of the Cd... | |
| Best Acoustic Guitar Players Of All Time? I too would have added in a living time frame Paco de Lucia, Antonio Forcione and I am surprised no one has mentioned -Martin Taylor- just amazing and available on Linn records. One wonders how there are no over dubs on his playing- as it sounds l... | |
| Invert Polarity in Digital Domain Try the Phase chart from SRA-Extremely helpful!http://www.silentrunningaudio.com/imagegallery/images/sourceimages/SRA-DISPLAY-New-Print.jpg | |
| Sonus Faber Guarneri Homage vs Extrema Guraneri's do get the mid's so right, and that covers 90% of your enjoyment(like the Zanden digital combo) that driving them with tubes or good s-state in a room size of your specification-vocal female jazz, small chamber/classical music(it sounds... | |
| Thinking about selling my CD collection = MP3 what about the time when we all flouted the copyright law of making copy versions on a cassette deck (to play them in the car) of our favourite LP's. Fine so far in a copyright perspective, but when the LP was no longer playable and we dumped it, ... | |
| Isolation platform under US 500 for CDP I have used the SRA's VR series(should be close in your range)and it has been better than any component upgrade. e.g. moving upto the Meitner was good but the SRA's definitely make it better. great company to deal with too. | |
| All the Emmlabs dcc2/cdsd hoopla.. Ggil,I was more interested to compare the EMM CDSD vs.APL modded Denon with the additional meitner optical outputs, both going through a DCC2. So the real test being between the two transports.Would anybody else share some light on this too.Thanks... |