gliderguider
Responses from gliderguider
| Digital cables for DAC I'm currently using a Nirvana DC-110. In my system it's very smooth, detailed and natural. It replaced an Acoustic Zen MC2 which was grainier, and an Argent Pursang digital cable which had a bit of an edge in comparison. There are a lot of fans of... | |
| What other obsessions do you have? Photography - I'm a devotee of Leica rangefinders. Single malt whiskies - especially older Islays. Good red wines - the girlfriend and I are about to spend a week in Santiago, Chile tasting Cabs. Mircrobrewed beers - hmm, three out of four obsessi... | |
| Best drink while listening to your rig? I just discovered small batch Bourbons - Bookers, Baker's, Knob Creek - a wonderful change from my usual single malts. They go really well with bluegrass, for some strange reason! | |
| Best drink while listening to your rig? I just discovered small batch Bourbons - Bookers, Baker's, Knob Hill - a wonderful change from my usual single malts. They go really well with bluegrass, for some strange reason! | |
| Digital Front End: Critical Listening Sjh32, the advantage of a USB connection is that it's bi-directional, meaning that it can feed back signals from the sink (DAC) to the source (computer) to implement perfect error recovery. In practice this means a very low-cost technique for doin... | |
| After 5 years, format war? What format war? From the silver coasters... Rip uncompressed to the computer's hard drive, then run the files out through the USB port to the DAC. One such implementation is at Wavelength's Cosecant USB DAC | |
| After 5 years, format war? What format war? Given the sound quality I'm now getting out of redbook via an Audio Note transport and DAC, I feel no pull whatever from the new formats or even from vinyl. However, I'm keeping my eye on the new computer-based playback systems, perhaps using a US... | |
| Do tube CD players and tube pre-amps play nice? I'm using tubes everywhere, and they make fabulous music together - a tubed Audio Note DAC, a tubed Audience preamp, and 300B amps. There's no such thing as too many tubes or too much music... | |
| Did you ever just want to simplify? I pay a lot of lip service to this idea as I cruise the web looking for More Audio Stuff. While my system may not represent Henry David Thoreau's ideal to any non-audiophile observer, I always try to focus on using the least to get the most. This ... | |
| Sim Audio Moon P-5 too dry I'm a big fan of Argent Audio's Brujo HC power cords on my Wavelength monoblocks. In my system they sound detailed, dynamic, coherent and open, with very good bass.Ric at Argent will also make you a set of balanced Pursangs if you twist his arm. T... | |
| 2 channel movie lstening;is it worth the sacrafice I put together a two-channel system for our tv-watching, and it works fine. Most of the good stuff in a movie happens inside your head or in the dialogue anyway, so a good two-channel does fine. Of course, this is mostly for the kids, and it helps... | |
| Is there a SS amp that can offer tube bliss? Yes, I just couldn't pass up the "Glenn Gould" crack :-)It has amazed me, though, to hear less noise from a combination of tubed DAC, tube preamp and tube power amps, than I was used to hearing from my SimAudio 4070 sand amp.Engineering is king. | |
| Is there a SS amp that can offer tube bliss? Eldartford - the only "hum" I get from my system appears to be coming from Glenn Gould.The nice thing about buying well-engineered tube gear is the silence that is broken only by the appearance of musicians in the listening room :-) | |
| Is there a SS amp that can offer tube bliss? I've wondered the same thing, but I still have tubes... I'd probably start off looking at amps that have a lot of Class A bias. The Claytons caught my eye as well, and apparently Accuphase has some amps that would fill the bill. The ones I'm keepi... | |
| Argent Pursang - Your input, please.... I second Hawaiikid's comments down to the last word. In my system that is exactly how Pursang sounds, and I have the same reaction to my comparison with AZ Satori (a single run, not shotgun) as well as with Magnan Signature. All the signal cable i... |