twoleftears
Responses from twoleftears
| What makes a DAC so expensive? Rubbish! Brightness is first and foremost a function of the engineering of the recording. To some extent the venue and other "external" factors, but primarily the ADC used by the recording engineer, plus any post-recording processing. The early... | |
| "Bridge Over Trouble Water" sounds artificial Here's the best solution.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNNs6Blk028 | |
| All New NAD Master M33 Integrated Amp // GAME CHANGER ?.. The M33 is actually NAD's first venture into Purifi.Soon to be rendered obsolete in turn by GaN. | |
| 30w class A amp for Joseph Audio perspective 2? While you're considering Pass, take a look at Sugden's Class A amps too. | |
| The Belles Aria Signature Integrated Amplifier Obviously the output is significantly more, 125W into 8 ohms, but my impression is that the biggest improvement is in the preamp section, where he's trickle-downed new designs that were developed while he was working on the Virtuoso preamp. | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? Value for money is a minefield.Perhaps you can price out the components that go into a unit, but then you have to factor in all the other costs, past, present, and future that the manufacturer has to account for. I've never seen that done convinc... | |
| CD Player vs. music streaming Should have got the Luxman D-10x--that would have sounded much better on your Magicos. | |
| What solid state power amp are you using with your Harbeth Super HL5+ speakers? Isn't midway or just over midway on the volume control usually an optimal position for performance of the pot? | |
| What other hobby... Even though color is the mainstream preference, monochrome may be making a comeback...Remind you of anything in audio? | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados His daughter Viviana is also a pianist. I wonder how much of the genius carried over.In other news, Lupu in Schumann / Humoreske, Kinderszenen and Kreisleriana is the best I've heard so far; his touch and the sound he gets from the piano seems to... | |
| The Belles Aria Signature Integrated Amplifier For the moment Johnny at Audio Connection can tell you about them. David B. is too busy cranking out units, for enthusiastic customers... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes, that's the Arrau disk I have. Lupu will be up later today. | |
| What amp to match with Spatial Audio M3 Sapphire open back speakers Take a look at the Marantz K1 Ruby. This has a sonic signature that I think you'd enjoy. | |
| What makes a DAC so expensive? Look at photos of the insides of the four Denafrips models. There are very distinct and noticeable differences. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados After listening to a lot of Chopin and Liszt recently, I thought I'd return to Schumann.As if today:Perahia, Op. 6 & 12Schiff, Op. 2, 18 & 20John Bingham, Op. 13 & 17Arrau, Op. 9, 15 & 82.So far enjoying the Arrau the most. Any re... |