rcprince
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| Whats on your turntable tonight? Rush, thanks for the scoop, I did not know the story behind the Speakers Corner 45s. I can understand the limited market for this product; as I said, I'm tired of buying multiple formats of the same recording, but after hearing it this was just to... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? I have recently acquired and listened the one-sided 45 RPM version of the Decca Mendelssohn in Scotland recording with Maag conducting reissued by Speakers Corner (thanks to Barry Konigsburg for showing me this disc). If this disc is any indicatio... | |
| Bad preamp choice? Have you listened to it? If not, when you get it, set it up right, let it warm up a bit and then give it a listen. Forget what all the "experts" say, your opinion of it is all that matters. Jaybo is right, CJ makes excellent stuff, they get things... | |
| DAC with the best midrange ever..... I saw the list price as essentially $3 grand for each. | |
| What music do you want to play really loud? Any Mahler symphony, the Copland 3rd Symphony or Stravinski's Rite of Spring. Also, any well-recorded organ disc. | |
| Jadis musical value? In answer to one post, I believe the preamps are as equally good as the amps, if not better(I own a JP200, and previously owned a JPL and a JP80), but they do soften macrodynamics just a bit, and are not as good as solid state units in the absolut... | |
| Jadis musical value? If you value the sound of music rather than aural thrills, they are indeed worth their price and then some. | |
| 3 head cassette decks The NAD 6300 should be in the mix, an excellent machine. | |
| DAC with the best midrange ever..... You should consider an Audio Logic DAC, I think it fits your description very well. Perhaps a little full in the bass compared to something like the EMM Labs (I use both in my system), but consistently natural and musical presentation. | |
| Jadis with Telefunken 12AX7/ECC83 tubes Well, I still prefer the Teles (I think they are the best overall performers through the entire frequency range), but my ears are different than yours. I agree with Rodman that Amperex Bugle Boy tubes would probably add some of the warmth you crav... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Tonight was old Decca recordings of shorter pieces night-1. English String Music (including Britten's Simple Symphony)--Britten/English Chamber Orchestra. The King Super Analogue re-issue, pretty heavy in the bass but a very good recording.2. Espa... | |
| Are singers musicians? Absolutely yes. | |
| The disappearance of the traditional amplifier What, you don't consider Sumo wrestling to be a sport? | |
| The disappearance of the traditional amplifier What goes on in the pro marketplace does not necessarily translate to the consumer marketplace. I think that powered speakers have a chance in the consumer marketplace for the reasons Shadorne mentions and also for the fact that they are more neat... | |
| SACD playback the DAC Adding to Ncarv's post, the EMM Labs (Meitner) DAC has a proprietary interface that can only be used with the EMM Labs transport. Another company with its own proprietary interface is dCS, its DACS will decode an SACD signal but only through a pro... |