No. I clearly hear the noise of analog (tape and surface) in my living room. And yes, you're badly mixing units.
You do understand that one can hear things below a noise floor, right?
this is what one need for a good dac. No filter the transformer is a bandwith filter.
SOWTER DAC I/V TRANSFORMERS
Line Output | Lundahl Transformers
Using Sowter 9545 (1+1:5+5) into 5842, battery bias, choke loading, Salas SSHV2 for power. PCM1794A in mono mode, one per channel. Work in progress, will increase FS output level a couple of dB, and increase BW slightly.
I never had a goldring TT. I had a Dual now have a SL1700 and the TD124. I use a goldring 1012gx MM. Had X1 mc back in the eighties a denon DL160, shure m97xe, grado red. But the goldring 1012 is the best sounding card I have.
I have just bought a dynafox tpr2. I was building my own RIAA for mc with lundalh transformers I did not finish that till now. My other low noise preamp had a defect so I wanted to try the dynafox did put in bigger MKP to shift the cutoff frequency lower. Not much difference with what i had but nice with the external powersupply would not do much better in my own design.
Although I hope some improvement with the lundahl transformers.
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The Riaa I use from 1987 is these one is very low noise in combination with high output MC, I used PP in the network.
I use a class D amplifier and my own design hybrid KT66 PSE C-core OPT. There for I am building the Riaa with lundahl transformers.
And this speaker. dipole with horn xo 500hz super tight placement of soundstage. 94dB Wmtr 30-20000Hz
My profession is electronics and I build as a hobby my own audio from the mid eighties, got enough experience and did hear also other diy stuff. And also expensive commercial audio through the years. So I do think I know where I am talking about.
Awesome sir!
Burr-Brown PCM-1792 DACs, in a differential balanced configuration (got the same Universal player).
* Got a bunch of Sony SACD players too. ...Pioneer, Oppo, Marantz, ...
Do you prefer LPs or SACDs (CDs)? ...The sound, overall, and the music choice, and the quality of the recordings (best world record labels), and the jump factor, and the impact, and the dynamics (micro & macro), and the dark pitch black background, and the ambiance, the air, the soundstage, the imaging, the height, the light.
...Without any prejudice, no bias and not money related.
Most accurate too? ...Did you listen to some Classical music from SACDs and compare it to its counterpart on an LP?
Did you listen to some Jazz music on CDs from ECM record label or Channel Classics or Reference Recordings and compare them to their albums?
Did you listen to some Blues on APO or/and AudioQuest record labels from CDs? ...And compare them to their album's equivalents?
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Here a pic of my pride 1966 td124 witch I restored a few years ago. Rega rb301 with Van den Hul tone arm wiring.
Very nice table Helmuth, I've attached a picture of my mid-fi machine below. Slate plinth set up for constrained layer damping, but I am not using it. I refurbished the table a couple of years ago. (Late TD-124/II 1968 or so, barely used in its former life.) Shick arm, SPU Royal N, Lundahl LL1941 suts.. I have also run the Meister Silver on this table, but frankly the Royal N is substantially better, and even without the SPU head shell I prefer it.
I am not sure about the DL-301, it certainly does not get the accolades the DL-103 has (I've had several). I found the ZU repackaged version of the DL-103 quite good, a few problems with sibilants female vocals, and audible mis-tracking on some material with extreme HF - this was on an SME 3009 Series II as well as my Schick. I am not sure whether the RB301 effective arm mass is a good match or not to the DL-103. Synergy is obviously important if you want things to play well together.
I hear ticks and pops cited as a frequent downfall of vinyl, I take care of my records, keep them scrupulously clean, use a recently acquired VPI RCM to clean them and am generally careful. Just wanted to say I have relatively few issues with this problem - a very few records I got from my Dad and the public library system are a little noisier than I would prefer. (Anything with more than an occasional tick or pop will get replaced with a quiet copy unless very rare.)
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These digital source are outdated and even back then they were the WORSE sounding.
I had marantz CD 17, 17 mkII, 63 KIS and others. Had the sony for a while.
These things were real crap even back then. Bloated bass, not controlled. Bloody midrange and lack of resolution on the highs.
If you still have those...
Even iPad will sound significantly better nowadays!
Esoteric SACD, which model player sir?
* Do you still prefer playing your LPs?
Dither, jitter, asynchronous, clock, power supplies, transformers, quad-balanced fully differential, wiring, circuit boards, short paths, best parts, sync, synergy, ...
I did try if sacd is better then normal cd format I can not hear significant difference. Only the newer generation DAC and analog circuit power-supply helps to improve performance.
There is more air in vinyl but the digital soundstage picture is very stable. And sounds accurate vinyl is more loose I would say lively but less accurate.
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Sounds great Kevin do you post the build.
Do you also have a transformer volume control. These help to save micro detail because it is no attenuation but power transformation so on the lower level the voltage will not be influenced by the resistor-load or capacitive load. And you will have all detail preserved. And no coloration of the sound by capacitors.
SOWTER ATTENUATOR TRANSFORMERS TVC VOLUME CONTROL
Let me have a kick at this too.
Even if you did the greatest possible SOTA mic testing (or other set-up strategies) of a system, it doesn't mean the sound of that system to human ears doesn't favour vinyl.
I wonder if you could you have introduced adjustments which would have made the CD-borne guitar sound better? (See my dust-up with TerryO.)
Not to be critical of your contribution to the "education" of your friend, but I am willing to think his vast experience in comparisons (slightly favouring CDs) should be given more weight than his brief period of your tutelage (favouring vinyl).
Ben
That horn is a point source 500Hz up to 20khz flat response. Gives tremendous focus of the sound stage. And sounds amazing sparkling at the top end.
Pure DSD stream; any opinion?
* You must have ultra high-end gear to not be able to hear much difference between SACD (DSD) and CD (PCM 16/44).
And your vinyl rig must be extremely well vibration-free isolated and super well calibrated to hear more air than from SACD (or CD). ...I mean from quality recordings.
Accuracy is a tough denominator, and accurately unimportant in the world we live in; peace is (pleasantness).
And everything is loose, even reel-to-reel, and reelity.
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