By the way, Metronome and DCS I found nice for digital if you will ever have a chance comparing. I preferred the French thingies.
I think one of their marketing idea in a show was to setup a Wilson speaker with a ipod as a source and a 1k amp and still sound better then a Revel setup. The Wilson was supposedly the best setup.
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Was it Mr. Wilson I read somewhere he favors the DL-103? Anyway, in my experience the speaker and the room-speaker interface is we got to nail first and foremost.
You mean this one? Its the Goldfinger. The newer "statement" model is nicer, the previous (V2?) had a treble resonance that pushed it towards "impressive" but I did not find it particularly engaging.
It was right there on its serial numbered FR chart not in my ears only, I asked to see that chart after I thought it must be obvious. The diamond is not fake BTW.
The photos come from an installation at a friend's acoustically treated room. He has changed to a higher spec Pluto arm now which is like a cross at the back with some Nordost inside the tube plus Odin TT cable tail as his rest ICs are, and moved to the statement cart. He had been through some phono stages, opted for the Zanden 1200 MKII at a point. He was stressing that the phono stage is the key in a TT rig. He asked me once to make something for him just for fun but he then got serious about remaking it and housing it even better. He made it permanent after he could easily discern the Odin VS the Valhalla TT tail cable on it when he could not on the Zanden he said, and sold it.
Still his power cable to the DIY phono costs triple the phono build itself despite I put all the highly expensive caps and terminals he wished for.😀
Well advise your well heeled buddy, that any $300-500 digital system would blow his TT out of the water ... 🙂
I had the chance to listen both to the 2008 and the 222 on the same home system with My Sonic Lab cart on an Avid Reference with Dynavecor DV507 arm.
The guy could push fully down the suspension as the record was spinning listening to music, then release it and the TT would not make the stylus jump or anything audible happening.
Crows like shiny objects too. Sure is pretty.
Ears are all clogged up with eye candy.
Single easiest and best sound treatment is wall to wall carpet. Don't worry you can spend $30K so it looks good too.
Just plug in run of mill CD player and blow that fancy things performance right out of the water.
Already has $30K sound treatment in that room, in wall bass traps, absorption, diffusion, the works. Designed and executed by a studio treatment firm. The Naim 555 CDP is there at the last pictures top left with its PSU under.
@Jan Didden
What happens if you would compare the analog waveforms of both the digital and LP version of the Graceland album?
I would be interested if these are similar too.
What happens if you would compare the analog waveforms of both the digital and LP version of the Graceland album?
I would be interested if these are similar too.
I would still love to have a good-condition Win or Panasonic and take another crack at the electronics, now that I have another 35 years of experience behind me. 😀
That would mean I should digitize the analog then compare it in something like Audacity? Not sure if that should be meaningfull. The analog would probably have more noise. But no, I haven't done that.
Edit: they would surely be different, come to think of it. The replay with a cartridge would change the waveform quite a lot.
Jan
But I thought all the best cartridges include a diamond? Are you telling me that it matters where the diamond is placed? The boring engineering-led conventional position at the end of the cantilever is not good enough?SY said:
That could well be swamped by the orders-of-magnitude different timing stability between the two formats.
How short the memories; before tiny solid state media players were portable CD players that had anti-shock and several seconds of memory buffering. These could be dropped on ground without skipping.
I owned early Technics portable played that lacked anti shock, but could readily be jostled about and played in any position. Mostly used it in my vehicle, as it predated CD players built into players built into car radios.
Anybody ever compare vinyl playback to CD in car? Even this CD player blew away any vinyl setup I've ever heard in hi end audio shops.
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