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| Reel to Reel Machine for 15 ips playback The Tascam BR20 is another machine worth considering. It has good heads, and is extremely well build, though I'm not sure about spares availability. As regards the whole analogue tape thing, I really struggle with the economics of it. A small col... | |
| recommendation of amps @Robshaw - it sounds like a bit of a Pass fan club here, but I second the various comments about Pass Labs amplifiers capacity for musical engagement - and tonal refinement. Pre-owned, I would suggest a pair of Parasound JC1s. They are quite si... | |
| What CDs to buy Anything by Patricia Barber will sound good on CD. But basically, anything mastered in the last ten to fifteen years should be good - provided the original recording is good enough in the first place. However, if you have a top quality streaming s... | |
| Building a new system after many years away, need some suggestions ... ! @op What are the active speakers you have? And what do you use for monitoring in your studio? I have a studio and I understand the difference between listening for mastering and listening for pleasure. | |
| Streaming – Discovering Similar or New Music Roon Radio does a great job for me. | |
| best external drive for ripping CDs More clear thinking from "clearthinker". To echo previous posters, making a personal use copy of a CD is perfectly legal for the obvious reason that the purchaser of the CD has already compensated "the artists that made the music". On the actual... | |
| Baffled and Frustrated: Streaming/DAC Sound Issues @clearthinker. The page that we are looking at here has been smashed into loads of tiny little packets of data and put back together again. Also, there is an underlying implication in your posts that it is digital alone that has insurmountable pr... | |
| Why so few devices with BNC's?? @cd318 - yes, it made zero improvement. However it did further enhance the cause of making Naim gear a closed ecosystem where the easiest thing for customers to do was trade up rather than out. I did like the calendars they used to produce in the... | |
| Why so few devices with BNC's?? When Naim changed over to BNC's in the late eighties we used to call the Bloody Nasty Connectors. Nothing against BNC per se, but putting them on the phono section of Naim's preamps at the time when most Naim customers had Linn Sondeks with RCA to... | |
| Is there anything better than live recordings? I haven't heard any good recordings made by dead people:)) On a more serious note - what constitutes a "live" recording?. Many classical and jazz recordings made in studios are "live" in the sense that they are played in real time albeit in the ... | |
| Those singers you enjoy,....that don't really have a great voice? What constitutes a "golden" voice? I'm gobsmacked at a large number of singers mentioned on this thread that are absolutely superb vocalists. From what I can infer, a lot of focus seems to be on vocal timbre and to a lesser extent, range. But t... | |
| DIY Steampunk Tube Amplifier, feedback please :) Congratulations on building the amplifier and it does look great. Having looked at the STA 540's datasheet, I think you might want to consider a higher quality solid state section if you were looking at marketing the amplifier for hi fi purposes. ... | |
| SET Distortion at higher volumes? We can tolerate lots of even order tube generated harmonic distortion before sound becomes obviously distorted. Lots of digital pop and rock recordings are mastered using tube compressors or other tube signal processors that generat harmonic disto... | |
| Interesting situation! Do we need this.... Don't bother to ask musicians about hi fi. They have different priorities as they spend the majority of their time actively making music, not "passively" listening to it. | |
| Glare with Qobuz… @OP Not necessarily right on your thread, but from your last post, if you are using wifi to connect to Roon, if feasible, using a hardwired connection back to the wi fi router will sound better. [That's guessing that the Bricasti is hardwired to a... |