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should everyone just order emm?

i have levinson gear now, and it of course has been bested by
umteen transports and processors in the last 2-3 years. and now, without meitner, i may as well jump in a lake and swallow a snake. can the most rational fellow music lovers out there (no "asylum" cases please) explain how and why i/we should 1.go for any new major improvements NOW 2. wait for blue lasers(?) 3. buy more REDBOOK CD'S 4. clean off some of my old vinyl and relax to some leonard bernstein or some horowitz. 5. jump into the lake anyway having done all of the above. please advise. thanks so very much.
french_fries
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wellfed
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Man, I would like to try an Indra. Too rich for my blood at this point however. What has the Indra offered besides resolution gains? I'm a high-resolution fiend.

On a less expensive and unrelated side note; I have been auditioning the Marigo Audio Signature 3D CD mat and have been impressed with the relaxed, analog like, quality it brings to the mix. If anything, system resolution has improved with its use as well. Pretty impressive.
tbg
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The Indra does not sound like silver, gold, platinum, palladium, or copper, because it is none of these. It is utterly neutral. Some claim it has a deficient top end, but I think it just does not sound like silver.

I have the old Marigo cd top pad, maybe I should retry it.
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wellfed
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Do you consider the Indra performance to be transcendant, as some of the reviewers suggest, or more along the lines of highly evolved. IOW, is it a brand new creature?
tbg
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In that it uses amorphous wire with little crystal development and given its lack of metal coloration, I think yes, it is a new creature. Given the price of replacing this surplus wire, it may be a short lived creature.

I would not claim that it is transcendent, but I sure was impressed from the moment I put it into my system and swiftly bought a long run also to go to my amp.
irishdog
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Are the circuits in the Meitner DAC patented? If not, why can other manufacturers not acheive the same or better level of performance? In the current "Absolute Sound", HP and Mark Levinson speak of its SACD performance as the only "corrrect" processing of the DSD signal. What is everybody else doing wrong?
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