rcprince
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| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? I think our members are clocked out, but I think I'll probably do something to take the clock in and out without anyone knowing and see if anyone notices. We've got a speaker manufacturer demoing and I don't want to steal his spotlight. I have don... | |
| Clever Little Clock - high-end audio insanity? Tonnesen: The results of the fairly unscientific blind test we did with the NJ Audio Society are referenced earlier in one of my posts on this thread (you have to go to another of the many threads on this topic to find it). Take a look at the resu... | |
| What preamp for Lamm M1.2 ? I have listened to the two of them at lemgth. If I had not heard the L2, I would have thought that the LL2 was their best line stage. To my ears, the L2 is just a bit more refined in the highs, more neutral and extended in the deep bass (the LL2 h... | |
| RACHMANINOFF PIANO CONCERTO 2 I also like the Richter on DG, a very idiosyncratic performance (he starts it slower than anyone and ends it up faster!). And Ashkenazy, of course, particularly the 1971 version Sugarbrie mentions from his first cycle. Forget sonics on this piece,... | |
| George Kaye Small tube Tester I would suggest you go to the Moscode link under "Manufacturers" here on the A-gon and contact George directly through the site links. Not sure if he still makes them, but he might. | |
| Is Apogee in a class by itself among planars? My memory of the old Apogees is fading, so it's hard for me to compare, but the Analysis Plus speakers available now sounded better to me than I recall the Apogees at the time, particularly in the bass. A friend of mine who hates planars has actua... | |
| 25 year old polk 2.3's will I hear an improvement? Mejames--perhaps in another setting, but given their "omnipolar" design, not where Gammajo has them placed in his room. | |
| What is purpose of a cd transport? Heck, Sugarbrie, for vinyl I only have the Lamm phono to turn on for the phono stage (maybe I should consider the Blue Circle, though the Lamm is really an extra box itself because my Jadis has its own world-class phono stage), but then I also hav... | |
| What is purpose of a cd transport? That's how the production Audio Logic with the single power supply did it as well. A good design. I sort of miss the separate boxes from the prototype, though, because you could turn off the analog stage (and therefore save tube life) while leavin... | |
| What is purpose of a cd transport? Audio Logic has done the same thing with their DAC in the past (the new MDX version is a one-box DAC)--in fact, their prototype actually had three boxes, one for the DAC circuitry, one for the analog power supply and one for the digital power supp... | |
| 25 year old polk 2.3's will I hear an improvement? You should be careful--I had a project with the manufacturer and designer of my speakers where we replaced the crossover built inside my satellite speakers with an outboard crossover using much better quality parts (Hovland caps, Alpha Goertz chok... | |
| What is purpose of a cd transport? Pbb's post wasn't here when I posted. In theory, a well-designed one box player should beat separates, because that's one less interface and a shorter path for the electronic signal. In fact, the original CD players, with the main exception of Son... | |
| What is purpose of a cd transport? Its job is to properly read the disc and transmit the digital data. Some transports use better parts and are better built and are therefore better at doing that than others. | |
| 25 year old polk 2.3's will I hear an improvement? I can't say I've made a similar upgrade, but can point out a few things:1. I listened a lot to the Polks at the time they were out and always felt they were bass-heavy and shelved down in the highs. Keeping in mind I'm going with 20+ year old memo... | |
| Cable isolators ??? I heard a convincing demonstration at both my home and at one of our audio society meetings of the benefits of getting interconnects off of vibrating surfaces (in these cases, the floor). I think Elizabeth's tips are sound, and her insulating mate... |