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1: SET Asylum, RE: something special about a pentode driving any triode... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-24, 13:51:14 (146.70.174.87)
Is this a production amp, a DIY amp, or something you had built per your specs? (I could not find anything on the amp in a Google search.) Thank you much. .......
2: Classical Court, RE: +2...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-20, 09:49:28 (68.98.78.21)
Next to Vlad Horowitz, Byron put out what I thought was the best Rachmaninoff Concerto 3 on commercial recording....... .......
3: General Asylum, Only If There Are No Weak Links in the Internal Sections........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-19, 12:13:59 (146.70.174.180)
Problem is we will only find out one way or the other while trying it..... More often than not, I've encountered "weak links" in all-in-one gear that make me either bypass part of the unit (if it's a .......
4: General Asylum, RE: Same Old Song: Private Equity Is Destroying Our Music Ecosystem (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-18, 09:11:10 (146.70.174.217)
From the article: Does that song on your phone or on the radio or in the movie theater sound familiar? Private equity -- the industry responsible for bankrupting companies, slashing jobs and raising .......
5: General Asylum, I Do Too...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-13, 13:30:21 (146.70.195.90)
But after a good live concert, the home stereo system usually sounds downright depressing............ .......
6: Classical Court, Lang.... [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-12, 22:33:46 (68.98.78.21)
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7: General Asylum, RE: Watched the JJ Video..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-12, 21:10:36 (68.98.78.21)
"CDs more accurate than LPs? Sure, in the context of distortion, but it's a bit of red herring in regards to the premise that music played through a stereo system is not an absolutely accurate represe .......
8: General Asylum, RE: Watched the JJ Video..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-12, 20:53:27 (68.98.78.21)
"CD's don't snap, crackle, pop, and hiss. Maybe that in and of itself is enough to make the claim that CD's are more accurate." It's kind of ironic, the determination of "accuracy" is in itself subjec .......
9: General Asylum, RE: Watched the JJ Video..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-12, 20:51:05 (68.98.78.21)
"In the case of clinical studies the comparison is between the actual thing being studied and the control group taking the placebo." The context here is a singular test subject...... He's not comparin .......
10: Classical Court, Cleveland Orchestra Concertmaster Has Resigned......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-12, 20:17:29 (68.98.78.21)
Just two years as Cleveland Orchestra concertmaster, and six years after the Cleveland Orchestra's previous concertmaster William Preucil was fired, David Radzynski has resigned, just a little over a .......
11: General Asylum, RE: Accuracy or performance? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-11, 17:19:49 (146.70.58.134)
Most "cut and paste" efforts in classical recordings are to patch up botched notes or miscues from the performers themselves, so the performance sounds "mistake free" in the released product..... It's .......
12: General Asylum, RE: Color Me Perfect (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-11, 17:15:13 (146.70.58.134)
Nobody really knows what "perfect accuracy" actually sounds like..... And if it were to magically be brought forth (which in reality isn't possible), a lot of listeners wouldn't believe it........ Mai .......
13: General Asylum, Watched the JJ Video..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-11, 16:45:16 (146.70.58.134)
What's weird is that I actually agree with most of what he stated in the video..... Mainly the variability in sound within the sound space....... (Which is why I believe digital room equalization is n .......
14: General Asylum, "JJ"..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-11, 12:25:01 (146.70.58.134)
At least I now know the face behind the man, the myth, the legend...... [-; .......
15: General Asylum, RE: Accuracy or Presentation? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-11, 12:13:19 (146.70.58.134)
I cannot speak for "accuracy"...... It can be ten different things to ten different people...... I believe audiophiles, including myself, strive for "presentation"..... Or what they believe would be a .......
16: General Asylum, Thank You For the Responses........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-10, 10:25:10 (68.98.78.21)
I've had varying results with different fuses, it seems to play a role with this HF tone I was getting intermittently in the right channel, with the Synergistic Master in the second direction seemingl .......
17: Critic's Corner, As Long As You Have a Cup of Coffee..... .... [-; [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-09, 00:57:26 (68.98.78.21)
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18: General Asylum, RE: Is it consistantly repeatable ? Change the fuse direction back to original... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-08, 17:32:32 (68.98.78.21)
"If you change the fuse direction back to original does the tone immediately reappear? Reverse it again. Does the tone immediately stop?" In the original fuse position, the "tone" is present roughly 5 .......
19: General Asylum, RE: Young audio enthusiasts (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-07, 15:43:57 (146.70.174.188)
"I'd love to know what young people (age 21-35) are buying." Younger generations have less disposable income, due to far tougher economic times, relative to past generations..... Most younger audiophi .......
20: General Asylum, RE: But they always did. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-07, 15:37:21 (146.70.174.188)
Young people see my audio systems in the house, and their first response is "How loud does it play? ..... " ............ .......
21: General Asylum, RE: They think we are fools (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-07, 15:35:52 (146.70.174.188)
Well, with all the Auto-Tuned popular music out there in recent time, high-fidelity sound reproduction doesn't even compute with younger people.... Especially those who've had no interest or exposure .......
22: General Asylum, RE: Strange Fuse Direction Side Effect.......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-06, 19:44:35 (68.98.78.21)
"Could be that removing and reinserting the fuse cleaned a bit of corrosion from the connection." I wouldn't rule that out..... And why I won't touch anything there for now......... I'll be monitoring .......
23: General Asylum, Strange Fuse Direction Side Effect.......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-06, 18:48:06 (68.98.78.21)
I had a Synergistic Master fuse in my high efficiency system line stage..... On a whim, I decided to reverse the direction of the fuse, to find out the effect on the system's sound...... Now I preferr .......
24: Classical Court, RE: Tchaikovsky Competition Winner ..... [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-02, 13:32:54 (84.17.63.55)
I did watch some performances by other Finalists..... (Including Valentin Malinin, who also won Second Prize)...... Nothing else really stood out.... Took in some of the solo pieces as well..... I th .......
25: Classical Court, Tchaikovsky Competition Winner ..... [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-02, 03:30:13 (146.70.174.183)
Pianist was Sergei Davydchenko....... He also performed the Tchaikvosky First Concerto..... My first comment about Davydchenko is that he may have the biggest hands that I've ever seen..... He has a h .......
26: Classical Court, RE: Full Tchaikovsky Concerto (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-02, 01:39:02 (146.70.174.183)
It sounded like the "note-perfect gremlins" may have been why he finished runner-up...... Angel's articulation and dynamics were off the charts..... With that kind of articulation, any wrong note is m .......
27: Classical Court, I Missed It Too........... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-03-01, 13:37:02 (146.70.174.183)
So don't feel too bad..... [-; I saw snippets of various performances, but nothing grabbed my attention...... .......
28: Classical Court, RE: Here Is the Entire Performance......... [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-29, 12:52:25 (146.70.195.110)
This was indeed an excellent performance...... The first two movements, in particular, were world class...... (I was under the impression that the final movement may have been under-rehearsed..... ) T .......
29: Classical Court, Pianist Angel Stanislav Wang...... [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-29, 12:46:00 (146.70.195.110)
Pianist finished runner-up in the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition last year..... Performed an exhibition with Valery Gergiev in St. Petersburg, Russia... Performed just the final movement .......
30: General Asylum, RE: Remastering........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-29, 02:09:16 (68.98.78.21)
I think Steven Wilson does both..... The few recordings I have (King Crimson, Jethro Tull) have sonic changes relative to the original release, but I believe the mixes themselves (track content, stere .......
31: General Asylum, +1 ... [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-28, 21:51:42 (68.98.78.21)
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32: General Asylum, Remastering........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-28, 21:46:14 (68.98.78.21)
I just popped in an original digital pressing CD (1987) of the Beatles' "Let It Be"...... I will say it now..... Over 90 percent of remastered recordings are attempts to fix problems that weren't even .......
33: Classical Court, Here Is the Entire Performance......... [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-22, 14:50:49 (68.98.78.21)
It was part of the Kreisler Competition in Vienna...... Don't recognize the conductor or orchestra, it's not the VPO or VSO..... (The orchestra has French horns, not Vienna horns.) Will watch the who .......
34: General Asylum, RE: And for bass nuts ... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-19, 09:47:32 (68.98.78.21)
" ...we make one with a bass base for improved bass." Ding! Ding!! .... We have a winner!! ...... [-; .......
35: Digital Drive, RE: There is NO MAGIC here (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-17, 19:02:32 (68.98.78.21)
The R2R on paper should provide a more precise D to A conversion..... But the few that I've tried haven't impressed me......... .......
36: General Asylum, Caption........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-17, 13:09:29 (68.98.78.21)
"The Telecaster version sounds a bit better.... " .......
37: General Asylum, RE: Onkyo TX-2500 MK II (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-17, 13:04:58 (68.98.78.21)
I would try to restore a non Mk II version of these Onkyo receivers..... The original line had much better sonic performance. .......
38: Digital Drive, RE: Time for a new transport (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-13, 22:53:56 (68.98.78.21)
"I assure you the newer one are far superior to older ones." Very true....... That's why I use the cutting edge Philips CDC935 CD changer as a transport....... ;-] .......
39: Digital Drive, RE: Another satisfied WiiM Pro user here. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-09, 21:39:08 (185.230.126.147)
Using the Wiim Pro Plus with the Audiophonics DIGIRescue reclocker, feeding DH Labs Glassmaster optical cable to a SMSL VMV D1SE2 DAC. Very satisfying performance. .......
40: Digital Drive, RE: Denafrips Ares 12th-1 DAC..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-05, 12:17:56 (68.98.78.21)
I think it's a "Flavor of the Month" thing. I had the mega hyped Denafrips Ares II R2R DAC and thought it was kind of dull. By that I mean it was a little light on dynamics. It was very smooth but at .......
41: Digital Drive, Denafrips Ares 12th-1 DAC..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-04, 17:40:00 (68.98.78.21)
I've seen YouTube videos about this DAC being an "end game" product, in spite of several models above it (Pontus, Venus, etc.).... Is this indeed a a breakthrough product for the price or just more "F .......
42: Digital Drive, RE: REVIEW: Creative G6 DAC Processors (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-03, 08:16:37 (68.98.78.21)
I have an SMSL Sanskrit 10th III..... The SU-1 is a better performer, across the board. .......
43: Digital Drive, RE: It also has USB input which you didn't mention .............. nt (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-03, 07:59:49 (68.98.78.21)
The USB input must be used for the power source, regardless of which digital input is used..... If the USB is also used for the digital input, the 5V power should be from a separate dedicated power su .......
44: Digital Drive, SMSL SU-1....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-02, 21:45:41 (68.98.78.21)
The SMSL SU-1 is a killer DAC at $80..... (There are DACs costing over a grand that I don't like as much as this thing... ) Just a bare-bones DAC with optical and coax input and RCA outs, nothing more .......
45: Classical Court, All Very Impressive..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-02, 15:23:52 (68.98.78.21)
I think the issue with classical guitar is the absence of concertos for guitar and orchestra...... The only composer I can think of off the top of my head is Joaquín Rodrigo......... .......
46: General Asylum, RE: Anthony Cordesman obituary (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-02, 15:03:21 (68.98.78.21)
Maybe my all-time favorite audio reviewer..... May he RIP...... .......
47: Digital Drive, RE: REVIEW: Creative G6 DAC Processors (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-02-02, 00:10:51 (68.98.78.21)
Looks like a shootout with the SMSL SU-1 is in order......... .......
48: Vinyl Asylum, RE: I've always liked that performance, too (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-01-25, 14:19:38 (68.98.78.21)
The recording was supposedly "patched" with passages that had quirks that had to be "re-done"..... Yet it's still my favorite Rach Concerto 3 performance on recording..... This was also my favorite "c .......
49: Classical Court, I Know..... [-; [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-01-19, 11:45:54 (68.98.78.21)
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50: Classical Court, My Bad...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-01-17, 14:30:07 (68.98.78.21)
I usually avoid this..... But I messed up... [-; .......
51: Digital Drive, Storing Files from Streaming Service......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-01-12, 22:34:18 (68.98.78.21)
This may seem like a dumb question, but is there a simple way to download streamed files (from Tidal or Qobuz) to SSD drives, on a tablet, streamer (with SSD drive), or a PC? Responses are appreciated .......
52: Classical Court, RE: Franz W-M leaving Cleveland Orchestra in 2027 (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-01-12, 17:27:11 (68.98.78.21)
Aside from being a nice guy, I never knew why he was so liked over there...... He never did anything musically that enthralled me. I look forward to Cleveland's next music director, whoever he may be .......
53: General Asylum, RE: I KNEW IT! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-01-11, 09:10:19 (146.70.127.243)
The problem with cassette tape right now is the lack of good current-production premium media...... New old stock metal formulation (Type IV) tapes on eBay can go for over $10 a pop...... The other is .......
54: General Asylum, RE: I still have fond memories of the VR4s.... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-01-11, 08:54:12 (146.70.127.243)
The original Von Schweikert VR4 was one of my all-time favorite loudspeakers..... The speakers in the video clip are the "VR4.5 Mod VR5"..... With the "4.5" woofs and Focal tweets..... I've had though .......
55: General Asylum, RE: the -B- system (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-01-10, 19:01:47 (68.98.78.21)
I once had a "B" system..... (I actually called it the "B system"... ) It was basically a less expensive alternative of the main system...... But roughly ten years ago, when I landed a pair of custom .......
56: General Asylum, RE: Beatles Red and Blue Albums (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2024-01-03, 18:53:56 (68.98.78.21)
"Very interesting/mixed review. As an example, some songs are re-mixed with instruments originating from different sides from original mix." The song "Yesterday" (the only track I've sampled so far), .......
57: Digital Drive, RE: Chord Qutest vs Gustard X26 Pro DAC (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-29, 13:40:31 (68.98.78.21)
I also own the X26Pro and, to be honest, the first days were a disappointment (second hand unit, already burned in); to be honest I preferred my previous A18! But then I started optimizing it, and as .......
58: Music Lane, Reversed "Stereo Spread"...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-29, 13:28:50 (68.98.78.21)
The stereo spread is reversed on the 2023 release..... The opening guitar is normally on the right channel, but it's on the left channel with the 2023 release. (This was originally released in mono, s .......
59: General Asylum, RE: Best Thing Ever... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-29, 09:50:18 (68.98.78.21)
You can install and align cartridges again..... [-; Hope you had a great Christmas! ........ .......
60: General Asylum, +1 ......... [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-22, 01:32:15 (146.70.195.99)
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61: Digital Drive, RE: FOD? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-14, 22:14:44 (68.98.78.21)
This was a big deal in actual fighter jets, ironically..... And all other aircraft...... They say "losing a screw can cost the lives of the crew"........ .......
62: Digital Drive, RE: Not surprised... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-14, 17:30:03 (68.98.78.21)
" you prefer a triode based output stage to the OPA1612 op amps used in the SMSL. :)" Yeah, that's it!! [-; Seriously, if the Philips CDC935 stock output stage were any good (it's low to mid-fi at bes .......
63: Digital Drive, RE: Chord Qutest vs Gustard X26 Pro DAC (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-14, 12:24:55 (146.70.174.83)
The Gustard's X26 Pro was the best bass performer of the DACs I've tried....... It's simply the most linear down there, enables it to throw a huge soundstage as well. I haven't had the Prism DA-2 DAC .......
64: Digital Drive, RE: What if... CD better that streaming 16/44.1? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-12, 00:52:31 (68.98.78.21)
I also prefer my Don Allen mod Philips CDC935 (tube output) over my Wiim Pro Plus/Audiophonics DigiRescue reclocker/SMSL D1se2 DAC rig..... But with the reclocker, the streamer performs well enough (w .......
65: General Asylum, Good Deal!! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-11, 23:13:48 (68.98.78.21)
Live music, especially in an intimate acoustic setting, is the ultimate experience. .......
66: General Asylum, RE: What is New Old Stock? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-11, 22:24:24 (68.98.78.21)
New old stock (NOS) is anything that was manufactured a considerable time ago, and since kept sealed in its box for the entire time..... This is significant if the product is no longer being made.... .......
67: Digital Drive, RE: Looking for New CD player (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-08, 21:46:18 (68.98.78.21)
The Shanling ET3 CD transport looks interesting...... Especially if you're looking for a new production CD rig that is NOT "slot loaded"...... It's a top load design with a "stabilizer" manually place .......
68: Classical Court, Dyslexia Again..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-08, 21:09:50 (68.98.78.21)
I initially read the title as "New Orleans Box Set...... " .......
69: Classical Court, RE: A babe musician who even gets Ms. CfL's stamp of approval (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-08, 21:08:24 (68.98.78.21)
Ms. Sung has a YouTube channel..... Some interesting stuff here as well........ .......
70: Digital Drive, RE: Digital S/Pdif/AES-EBU (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-07, 13:52:30 (68.98.78.21)
I am looking for two digital cables with specific sound characteristics: (1) a frown-strongest thru midrange, with tapering extremes (2) linear cable with rising top end in 6-8Khz range The aberrati .......
71: Digital Drive, RE: To Each His Own......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-07, 13:44:03 (68.98.78.21)
If you think that DACs have somehow become bulletproof to jitter and RFI, that's fine..... We'll just live in disagreement and move on. .......
72: General Asylum, Inexpensive Audio Stack........... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-06, 03:26:41 (68.98.78.21)
Philips CDC935 CD changer (used, stock, eBay) $100....... Fake Nordost Odin coaxial digital cable (AliExpress) $50....... SMSL SU-1 DAC $80..... (This DAC is insane for the price) BRZHifi 5V USB linea .......
73: Digital Drive, To Each His Own......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-06, 02:40:22 (68.98.78.21)
I've done a few demos with and without a reclocker..... No piece of literature (like what you just posted) will sway me to stop using one in an inexpensive streaming rig..... For the difference I perc .......
74: Digital Drive, RE: FUD from an audio equipment maker... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-04, 03:27:57 (68.98.78.21)
"And if you recall I also said the square wave doesn't have to be perfect." Don't agree..... My streamer/DAC improves greatly with a reclocker, suggesting the square waves being "more perfect" (it's n .......
75: Digital Drive, RE: Cheap DACs (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-04, 03:18:29 (68.98.78.21)
The SMSL SU-1 DAC..... Goes for $79...... This thing could be a "unicorn" at the level of the Philips CDC935 CD changer. I have one running on the computer rig and one on the headphone rig..... Will l .......
76: Digital Drive, RE: Mutec Ref 10 SE120 and MC 3+ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-02, 11:03:03 (68.98.78.21)
I recently auditioned the Mutec MC3+ USB as a reclocker, between streamer and DAC..... (The "USB" implies USB capability, I used the optical in and out.) It can also be used between disc transport/ser .......
77: Digital Drive, RE: FUD from an audio equipment maker... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-02, 10:27:40 (68.98.78.21)
"For one thing you're not going to see square waves THAT messed up unless the device is broken or your Oscilloscope probe is improperly compensated." The actual waveforms wouldn't be different to the .......
78: Digital Drive, RE: Found an interesting article (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-12-01, 22:10:59 (146.70.195.83)
I think the gist of the article is "zero isn't exactly zero" and "one isn't exactly one"..... Due to noise, digital pulse rise times, power supply ripple, jitter, EMI/RFI, etc. People either trust the .......
79: General Asylum, Or Poor Translation............ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-11-29, 21:41:26 (146.70.174.179)
Looks like it was originally written in a different language, and something got lost in the translation to English...... .......
80: General Asylum, RE: Can't remember the designer (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-11-21, 21:56:18 (68.98.78.21)
"He had large floor standing speakers and a separation device from between the speakers up to his face." I remember this setup from maybe the 1990s..... The "separation device" had a small video scree .......
81: Digital Drive, RE: What HIFI has lost me forever (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-11-18, 11:06:11 (68.98.78.21)
"Umm, it doesn't do any digital to analog conversion. How can it have 'musicality??'" The digital signals from different CD transports can vary.... The pulse train from the output must be precise with .......
82: General Asylum, RE: Why I archive my music files to spinning disks... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-11-10, 03:35:40 (68.98.78.21)
Technologies are bound to fail, regardless of cause..... One of these CMEs could purportedly cause a power outage..... So you might want to have backup battery storage...... Maybe if we lose power for .......
83: Jazz Alley, Muses - "Jet Stream" [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-11-09, 23:49:20 (68.98.78.21)
Muses is a Japanese all-female fusion jazz band...... (Not to be confused with the prog rock band "Muse"....) From the album "Goddess of Victory"..... These girls can play!! ..... .......
84: Classical Court, RE: I have a couple of Sony SACD's which Luisi did (Richard Strauss repertoire). . . (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-11-07, 12:54:24 (146.70.174.147)
I kind of wonder if or how someone can be the music director of two major orchestras simultaneously...... Especially in two different parts of the world........ .......
85: Classical Court, RE: New Dallas Symphony release: Brahms Third with Luisi (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-11-04, 23:05:12 (68.98.78.21)
Fabio Luisi is the new music director of the NHK Symphony...... Will be an interesting combination........ .......
86: General Asylum, RE: System visual symmetry (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-11-02, 14:21:35 (146.70.174.131)
Listened to those speakers several weeks ago..... Really nice!! .......
87: Classical Court, RE: Violinist Ilva Eigus [yt] - yes, very enjoyable! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-10-31, 13:12:08 (146.70.174.195)
"So, although the piano part itself isn't that hard, you have to be on your toes to be precisely WITH the violinist at all times. ;-)" A lot of people, including some musicians, don't realize how impo .......
88: General Asylum, RE: An observation (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-10-31, 12:52:35 (146.70.174.195)
"So, if you have good recordings in your collection, be happy that you enjoy them, but do not be deceived into thinking you're hearing any kind of 'absolute sound'." I don't think anybody does that an .......
89: Classical Court, Violinist Ilva Eigus [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-10-31, 10:15:28 (146.70.174.195)
Swiss violinist is only 16 years old...... Young violinists rarely grab my attention, but this one could be the real deal...... (I think she'll pass the "John Marks" test with flying colors..... ) ::: .......
90: Vinyl Asylum, Ortofon SPU Classic N E......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-10-17, 15:49:48 (68.109.145.69)
Ortofon cartridges also work well in higher mass arms...... The Classic N Series has standard mounts...... I would recommend the SPU Royal N if you can fine adjust the arm height, azimuth, and anti-s .......
91: Vinyl Asylum, Setups Could Be Different....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-10-10, 14:50:45 (91.219.212.211)
Which can induce a profound difference in sonic presentation....... Not to mention construction variations (QC) between two identical cartridges...... One cantilever/stylus could be mounted more preci .......
92: General Asylum, RE: One would expect better sound from those speakers (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-10-05, 17:12:02 (68.109.145.69)
They didn't use primo recording equipment...... It's nothing close to the Kenrick Sound videos (link), which I think is the standard for capturing the sound of audio systems..... I also streamed the t .......
93: General Asylum, RE: and this is what fools believe and get sucked into, so +1 /nt (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-10-05, 16:32:01 (68.109.145.69)
I guess one can try the fake versions of these Nordost Odin cables on AliExpress for a tiny fraction of the price...... I personally got the USB cables and coax digital cables...... I don't know how t .......
94: General Asylum, RE: It's an amazingly ridiculous demo (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-10-05, 16:23:44 (68.109.145.69)
"I watched this one last night with my jaw sitting on the floor." Hopefully you're OK......... .......
95: General Asylum, RE: "OK Cable Deniers.......... " [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-10-05, 16:22:51 (68.109.145.69)
"Why is this thread not in the Cable Asylum category?" For more visibility..... I don't visit Cable Asylum that often........... Additionally, the "hearing differences" is more of a general topic..... .......
96: General Asylum, RE: Parts Express doesn't .... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-10-05, 16:18:56 (68.109.145.69)
"Parts Express doesn't list Duelund Dual DCA12GA tinned-copper speaker cable. Did they fib about the DIY cables build ?" If you have a YouTube account, you may want to inquire about the item on that Y .......
97: General Asylum, "OK Cable Deniers.......... " [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-10-05, 01:51:00 (185.230.126.11)
A YouTube audiophile channel attempts to demonstrate cable differences via a YouTube video....... Now I think I hear differences in the two presentations (I perceived more "overtones" in the voice and .......
98: Digital Drive, RE: Insinuations of "Inferiority"........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-10-04, 11:51:02 (68.109.145.69)
"There are people who believe the earth is flat." It isn't?? [-; Science was once incomplete in which people believed the world was flat...... Over time, technology has advanced the science to debunk .......
99: Vinyl Asylum, RE: VTA Adjustment Discovery......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-10-02, 17:16:16 (68.109.145.69)
"how do you know it's from the reproduction and not the cutting or anything to do with the cutting?" I don't know...... It's basically taking in the presentation of a lot of recordings, and noticing a .......
100: Vinyl Asylum, VTA Adjustment Discovery......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-28, 13:52:34 (68.109.145.69)
Provided all of the other alignments (VTF, overhang, azimuth, anti-skate, tracking error, etc.) are dead on....... And the cartridge has a "line contact" or "micro ridge" stylus.... (And the LP itself .......
101: Classical Court, Oh...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-27, 01:16:05 (68.109.145.69)
I apologize for the false presumption....... RIP. .......
102: Digital Drive, Lots Of Variables........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-23, 15:30:14 (68.109.145.69)
"Theoretically, all transports should sound the same." From purely a data perspective, true..... (Although I have encountered a few transports that "resample" the data, which I would personally avoid .......
103: General Asylum, RE: Tedeschi/Trucks Band (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-23, 15:12:48 (68.109.145.69)
During the PBS interview, I noticed what looked like B&W speakers in the background............. .......
104: Classical Court, RE: "Eunice Podice" (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-23, 05:15:09 (68.109.145.69)
I recognized the name, from the 1980s with the Cleveland Orchestra...... Nice that Eunice is still around...... .......
105: General Asylum, RE: Flashing light behind the preamp (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-20, 22:18:05 (91.219.212.227)
The only thing I can think of is an Ethernet jack..... Many have LEDs on them..... .......
106: General Asylum, RE: Burning Amp 9/30 - 10/1 (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-15, 17:32:03 (68.109.145.69)
For some reason, I thought this had to do with a David Berning amplifier...... [-; .......
107: General Asylum, Different Pressings........... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-13, 08:40:14 (68.109.145.69)
The sound quality of various Beatles pressings is all over the place..... The 1987 Parlophone two-CD set of the White Album is maybe the best digital version I've encountered..... No issues with bass, .......
108: General Asylum, RE: New Super Tweeter (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-12, 00:06:14 (68.109.145.69)
That would have required a lot of helium..... [-; .......
109: General Asylum, RE: New Super Tweeter (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-10, 14:25:02 (91.219.212.227)
Castrato? ........ .......
110: Digital Drive, Insinuations of "Inferiority"........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-06, 19:10:49 (185.230.126.19)
"The problem, of course, is that many of us have heard and are willing to pay for the difference. The difference is partially, but not exclusively, in the spatial quality of the stereo reproduction." .......
111: Digital Drive, RE: This Isn't Constructive....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-06, 11:47:23 (185.230.126.19)
"What I do care about are misrepresentations of facts in public forums where people are looking for valid information." Someone claiming to hear differences is *not* "misrepresentation of facts"..... .......
112: Digital Drive, This Isn't Constructive....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-05, 23:28:40 (68.109.145.69)
"Submit him to a series of DBTs with and without de-crapifiers and how see he scores." A DBT tests a product involving a control (placebo) group of people and a test (actual product) group of people, .......
113: Digital Drive, RE: Suggestions for replacing CD player (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-05, 00:48:58 (185.230.126.11)
My "audiophile sacrilege" recommendation is getting a Philips CDC935 CD changer that's in good shape on eBay, and having Dan Nelson (the TV7 tube tester guy) perform the Don Allen tube output mod on t .......
114: Digital Drive, RE: I should admit I use an isolator of sorts between computer and DAC (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-04, 09:58:03 (68.109.145.69)
Unlike other cable types used for digital audio, it is not clear regarding what in a USB cable run makes (or does not make) it galvanically isolated...... I believe this uncertainty has led to product .......
115: Digital Drive, RE: If it's between the ''Digital Source and DAC".... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-03, 09:44:01 (185.230.126.11)
My Wiim streamer goes up to 24/192 using Qobuz...... I personally prefer 24/96 over 24/192, less "digital fatigue"....... And I don't notice the difference between 24/96 and 16/44.1...... .......
116: Digital Drive, Digital Source and DAC........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-03, 03:03:02 (68.109.145.69)
It basically confines electrically transferred RFI emissions to the DAC itself..... As opposed to the entire digital chain..... (Streamers, transports, computers, intermediate processors, etc.) Galvan .......
117: Digital Drive, RE: What makes a music streamer sound great ? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-03, 02:51:12 (68.109.145.69)
I wish I still had a portable AM radio, I used to do the "RFI test" with CD players..... A good test to determine if your streamer is an "RFI monster"..... Leave it running while listening to other so .......
118: General Asylum, RE: RIP Jimmy Buffett (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-03, 02:41:15 (68.109.145.69)
My mom has a SiriusXM radio in her car, usually tuned to the "Jimmy Buffett" station, plays a mix of his music, and also reggae and other classic country..... RIP......... .......
119: General Asylum, RE: Paranormal Phenomenon or Logical Explanation? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-03, 02:30:16 (68.109.145.69)
Do you use a remote for your CD player? It could be switching off your TV.......... If that's not he issue, my only other explanation is that the CD player could be emitting RFI that is aggravating so .......
120: Classical Court, RE: I wouldn't know about the CD's (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-01, 02:42:10 (68.109.145.69)
"So now I've got the HDTT DXD incarnation AND the Tom Fine remastered 24/96 download which, while apparently not at precisely the right pitch, still used the Plangent Process, which brought other bene .......
121: General Asylum, RE: REVIEW: Aiyima T9 PRO Amplifier (SS) (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-09-01, 02:36:31 (68.109.145.69)
I have one of these DAC/amplifiers...... It is indeed a nice piece for the price..... But the internal DAC has the exact same flaw that the Gustard R26 DAC had, if you play a CD with read errors, you .......
122: Classical Court, RE: OMG! Don't tell me I'm going to have to buy the same recordings ONCE AGAIN! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-31, 20:58:27 (68.109.145.69)
I've tried a few HDTT CDs, and wasn't overly impressed with them..... (Most notably the Paray/Detroit Saint Saens 3, in spite of the corrected speed.... ) I think there is sample-rate conversion trans .......
123: Digital Drive, RE: Here's Another High Performing Reclocker . . but for USB. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-31, 19:27:15 (68.109.145.69)
Is the USB an input option, and output option, or both? The Wiim streamer does not have USB out, but the SMSL VMV D1se2 DAC does have USB in.... .......
124: Digital Drive, Audiophonics DIGIRescue Reclocker...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-31, 18:12:01 (68.109.145.69)
As I stated earlier, I was going to try a reclocker from the Wiim Pro Plus network streamer..... To the SMSL VMV D1se2 DAC.... Using a USB linear power supply to power the reclocker, the performance .......
125: Digital Drive, RE: Wiim ebay sale (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-28, 09:31:16 (185.230.126.11)
I think those who sell the Wiim streamer cheap weren't impressed with the unit standalone (the internal DAC implementation isn't particularity good), but didn't realize there was a huge upgrade path w .......
126: Digital Drive, RE: More Streaming Findings..... And An Essential Tweak......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-24, 22:44:14 (91.219.212.227)
"You will get even bigger benefits going with an actual reclocker...you could do that in addition to this switch...might even help more!" Likely the case...... I originally got the optical switch to s .......
127: Digital Drive, RE: The Toslink standard itself (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-24, 16:38:25 (185.230.126.11)
"The Toslink standard itself calls for 4 nS (not pico) of jitter. That's a bunch." Do you think audio manufacturers make source components just to meet a minimum standard? If that were the case, audio .......
128: Digital Drive, RE: Measureable and audible distortion..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-24, 00:11:33 (91.219.212.227)
"- It's not a pre-conceived notion that the measurable jitter distortion is factually much higher in the ancient TOSLINK Optical interface vs async USB when coupled to modern DACs." Who knows, I think .......
129: Digital Drive, RE: everSOLO DMP-A6 Digital Music Player (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-23, 23:02:41 (91.219.212.227)
"At least around here most folks favor Qobuz for sound quality over Tidal. I subscribe to both." It's a crapshoot.... There are multiple pressings available of some albums on these streaming services, .......
130: General Asylum, "I Built It All By Myself! .... " [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-23, 23:00:08 (91.219.212.227)
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131: Digital Drive, RE: Disc space is cheap.... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-23, 11:56:20 (185.230.126.11)
"If you already have FLAC files, the steamer is already processing to uncompress the files." I personally think converting FLAC files in real time degrades the sound....... YMMV....... .......
132: Digital Drive, RE: Disc space is cheap.... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-23, 10:19:11 (91.219.212.227)
"I choose using uncompressed WAV files and I still don't have more than a bit over 1TB for around 2,800 albums." If a streaming device offers SSD storage or provision for SSD storage, via conversion t .......
133: Digital Drive, Pre-Conceived Notions............ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-23, 10:11:48 (91.219.212.227)
"And why you keep trying to make meaningful comparisons using the antiquated jitter rich Optical TOSLINK interface is beyond me." Maybe if you try it, you'd be stunned over the sound..... [-; There ar .......
134: Digital Drive, RE: More Streaming Findings..... And An Essential Tweak......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-23, 10:03:50 (91.219.212.227)
"What re-clocker are you using?" I'm not using a dedicated re-clocker per se, I'm using a digital switch, which performs a similar function. (See link.) I initially got the digital switch to use betwe .......
135: Digital Drive, RE: " Don Allen mod Philips CDC935 CD changer " (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-23, 09:53:13 (91.219.212.227)
"why don't you tell all of us what the mods were?" Quite simply, replaced the output analog stage with a tube output stage...... The output stage is what held the stock player back. A second element o .......
136: Digital Drive, RE: everSOLO DMP-A6 Digital Music Player (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-21, 17:27:55 (68.109.145.69)
Do you rip to FLAC or rip to WAV? I only ask this because sonically speaking, I prefer playback of uncompressed files over playback of lossless compression decoded in real time. (The drawback is, of c .......
137: Digital Drive, RE: everSOLO DMP-A6 Digital Music Player (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-21, 15:23:24 (68.109.145.69)
With the Eversolo A6, were you streaming directly from the network in real time or were you ripping the stream to SSD and then playing it back that way? I remember mention of the Eversolo A6 having fi .......
138: Digital Drive, RE: And it is not hard to see what you are trying to Prove by your 'Streaming Tests'..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-21, 14:41:48 (68.109.145.69)
"This will be your final conclusion, no matter what tests you do. Yes, it's that obvious." Never realized this was a "conclusion"..... The only "tests" were developing "best practices" to get the best .......
139: Digital Drive, RE: More Streaming Findings..... And An Essential Tweak......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-21, 07:41:19 (68.109.145.69)
"All I'm suggesting is that if you want to explore better sounding streamers and DAC solutions modern async USB is better than TOSLINK." I'll let the Wiim percolate for now.... When the time comes to .......
140: Digital Drive, RE: More Streaming Findings..... And An Essential Tweak......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-21, 01:30:53 (68.109.145.69)
"If you try a streamer with USB output and a good DAC with USB input you might be surprised." The only USB port on the Wiim is for 5V power...... The only digital outs are coaxial (RCA) and optical. ( .......
141: General Asylum, RE: "transparent" versus "colored"? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-20, 17:06:45 (68.109.145.69)
I consider "transparent" the ability of a system to present a recording which creates an illusion of a broad soundstage (both wide and deep), and also the minute cues, locations, and textures within t .......
142: Digital Drive, More Streaming Findings..... And An Essential Tweak......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-20, 03:10:42 (68.109.145.69)
1. It would be good to subscribe to the three major streaming services.... Amazon Music, Tidal, and Qobuz...... The best "pressing" for a given album is not necessarily on the same service..... Althou .......
143: Digital Drive, RE: My First Taste of the Wiim Pro Plus Network Steamer........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-19, 14:06:53 (185.230.126.11)
"I have a Buffalo Nichols CD that was Auto-Tuned, the streaming pressing on Amazon Music is NOT Auto-Tuned.... " The Qobuz copy of the Buffalo Nichols CD *is* Auto-Tuned, like the CD.... :-( ...... I .......
144: Digital Drive, RE: My First Taste of the Wiim Pro Plus Network Steamer........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-19, 13:55:06 (68.109.145.69)
"Todd what aftermarket power supply are you using on the WiiM Pro? Is it a linear power suppl with USB connector or a portable USB battery type that doesn't plug into the AC mains except for rechargin .......
145: Digital Drive, My First Taste of the Wiim Pro Plus Network Steamer........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-17, 02:29:19 (45.152.182.131)
Coupled with an Android tablet, it's amazing that one can play a lot of music clips, basically on demand...... Especially if he/she already has an Amazon Prime account........ Some other thoughts..... .......
146: General Asylum, RE: "Don't touch--they bite"... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-17, 02:00:41 (45.152.182.131)
I guess some people don't have an intuitive "sense of physics"...... I think of when a pizza was served on a metal platter atop a stand at the center of the table..... The patrons all grabbed slices f .......
147: Digital Drive, RE: Huh? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-15, 02:11:12 (68.109.145.69)
I'm thinking about getting an SMSL VMV D1se2 DAC for the unit..... The internal DAC/line out of the Wiim Pro Plus is pleasant, but not particularly good....... (Running a linear power supply does clea .......
148: Digital Drive, What Is "LDAC?"..... [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-09, 16:22:36 (172.58.88.235)
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149: Digital Drive, Well.... I Took the Plunge...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-09, 14:55:41 (172.58.89.243)
Will be getting the Wiim Pro Plus streamer and Android tablet to connect and control the unit... The reviews suggest that the internal DAC might work, but will also try it with the Gustard X26 Pro ext .......
150: Digital Drive, Possible Solution......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-09, 00:17:33 (68.109.145.69)
An optical digital signal switch...... I would use one input for the CD source, another for the Wiim Pro Plus...... No I 2 S would be needed. But I will need to check for sonic degradation, because it .......
151: Digital Drive, RE: Is There a DDC That.... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-08, 22:39:44 (68.109.145.69)
"I2S stands for 'inter integrated circuit' and was designed for very short run connections inside a device. Aren't you rather defeating the whole point if you take a coax or optical output and convert .......
152: General Asylum, "Yeah, My Dog's Name is 'Nipper'....... " [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-08, 18:22:07 (68.109.145.69)
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153: Digital Drive, Is There a DDC That.... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-08-08, 15:38:36 (68.109.145.69)
Is there a digital-to-digital converter (DDC) under $700 that can take either a coaxial or optical input (from the Wiim streamer) and convert it to I 2 S? I don't like the sound of coax directly into .......
154: General Asylum, Shure V15 Type III .......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-31, 21:49:24 (45.152.182.131)
This photo confirms it...... .......
155: General Asylum, Richard Strauss...... Also Sprach Zarathustra...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-28, 21:04:21 (68.109.145.69)
AKA "2001.... A Space Odyssey..... " .......
156: Asylum Feedback/Support, Manage/Change Profile No Longer Works...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-25, 14:00:04 (185.230.126.11)
When I attempt to make changes to the Manage/Change Profile page, I get this red error message in a box above the profile: "Some required information is missing or incomplete. Please look below for th .......
157: Digital Drive, It's a Crapshoot........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-24, 23:38:52 (68.109.145.69)
A dedicated CD transport should sound better as a transport to an outboard DAC than an integrated CD player doing the same function...... But I personally haven't found such results in reality...... ( .......
158: Digital Drive, RE: It's good to see USB output though (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-15, 11:15:00 (68.109.145.69)
I don't know the techicals behind the transmission formats, but I do prefer USB over coax..... .......
159: General Asylum, RE: Debatable at best (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-15, 00:55:34 (68.109.145.69)
"Check out Grammy engineering award winning classical albums, (see link); later years' are especially impressive. I have a few of these; I think the 2019 winner, the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris N .......
160: General Asylum, Satisfying Audio Was Once Inexpensive......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-15, 00:03:46 (68.109.145.69)
Prior to the digital age......... I believe the omnipresence of radio-frequency interference due to the omnipresence of so many digital devices in today's environment has made attaining such satisfact .......
161: Digital Drive, No Optical Out Either......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-14, 15:55:35 (68.109.145.69)
I would have to use an Audio Technica HDSL1 converter in order to convert the coax signal to optical....... .......
162: Classical Court, Brought Out the Great Solti/Chicago Berlioz "Symphonie Fantastique"...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-10, 22:21:32 (193.37.254.67)
On vinyl..... A fellow audiophile visited my place Saturday, played mostly jazz and soft to medium rock, on various digital sources (including a Blue Sound streamer he brought over)..... Played the Bo .......
163: General Asylum, As What Benjamin Franklin Once Said....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-08, 00:47:42 (68.109.145.69)
Those who would give up a little sound quality to purchase a little convenience deserve neither sound quality nor convenience....... [-; .......
164: General Asylum, Kind of Ironic................ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-05, 21:35:04 (68.109.145.69)
In this context, digital audio "deburrs" harmonics from the music signal (above 22 kHz for Redbook CD), including the harmonic distortion present in the analog signal prior to analog to digital conver .......
165: General Asylum, RE: Everything at... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-05, 21:25:38 (68.109.145.69)
I've learned over the years that manufacturers often rescind dealer agreements because the dealers sell below retail...... Because it gives the market a perception that the gear isn't worth the price. .......
166: General Asylum, RE: How loud do you listen to your system? Any break up? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-05, 21:22:13 (68.109.145.69)
"The reason I'm posting this is that recently when I was at the SoCal audio show in Costa Mesa, some of those little rooms had system that were playing at good levels but not anywhere I listen to my m .......
167: General Asylum, RE: The computer.... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-05, 21:16:19 (68.109.145.69)
"MP3 music could be downloaded but there was no reason to lust for better reproduction." Mainstreamers from 1995 and later don't see the point of quality sound reproduction...... I personally think it .......
168: Digital Drive, RE: Not me ..... Optical is my last choice ................ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-03, 21:38:26 (193.37.254.179)
"Which is kind of strange, that Optical 'Sounds Better' to you, as there are many articles and 'Audiophile' Opinions expressed quite the opposite..." I might debate music, but I will never debate whet .......
169: General Asylum, RE: if you were going to open a hifi shop what brands would you sell ? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-03, 21:04:12 (193.37.254.179)
I haven't been exposed to a large enough variety of high-end gear to provide a good answer..... I also believe there is no universal "best" speaker or amplifier for a wide range of customers..... Gett .......
170: Digital Drive, RE: I have a CD which says it is DSD encoded, but there is no mention of SACD anywhere. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-03, 16:08:04 (193.37.254.179)
Unless there is something done unique with the digital data in the DSD process, a CD player will otherwise read the CD as standard 16/44 Redbook..... (Unless it implies that the 24/96 or 24/192 data w .......
171: General Asylum, RE: Got it wrong again (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-03, 09:52:44 (193.37.254.179)
The ills of digital RFI I notice only with active digital playback...... I don't notice such ills if the digital signal is transcribed to analog and then played back with the analog. (The D/A signal g .......
172: General Asylum, RE: Debatable at best (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-03, 00:25:31 (193.37.254.179)
"Check out Grammy engineering award winning classical albums, (see link); later years' are especially impressive. I have a few of these; I think the 2019 winner, the Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris N .......
173: General Asylum, RE: My take (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-02, 23:40:17 (193.37.254.179)
"You should stick to multiples of 44.1." The problem, as I stated, is the site not offering such option...... The only option was 24/96. That said, I've been getting promising results with this DSD co .......
174: General Asylum, Happy Enough......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-02, 23:30:41 (193.37.254.179)
I've been using the same speakers in my two systems for over 15 years......... The refinement of the upstream components over the years was the key to satisfying sound. .......
175: General Asylum, RE: My take (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-01, 22:49:56 (68.109.145.69)
"Why 24/96? Why not?" I was hoping there was a 16/44 option..... I would then burn the data to CD. (I agree with you about the 24/192.) To answer your question, because CDs cut from 24/96 or 24/192 ma .......
176: General Asylum, RE: Another, "My reference is live music" (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-01, 22:39:57 (68.109.145.69)
"'Live' sound very much depends on the performers and the venue. In other words, 'live' is no one thing, its highly variable. Further it is realistically impossible to directly, (A-B), compare live wi .......
177: General Asylum, What Exactly is "Deburring?" ......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-01, 21:10:22 (193.37.254.67)
Maybe we'll all learn something....... .......
178: General Asylum, RE: Humm ... yeah, well ... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-01, 19:20:57 (193.37.254.67)
"Vinyl is, for all intents & purposes, incapable of producing as deep bass as digital." Well, if you go below 16 Hz, you're correct..... But how many people have systems capable of that? (Feedback and .......
179: General Asylum, RE: "digital switching" density per unit time (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-01, 19:09:22 (193.37.254.67)
"Digital switching? What exactly is that?" The digital data is converted to analog via transistor switching..... Each sample has switching for each significant bit in the data word, the longer the wor .......
180: General Asylum, RE: Combine Auto-Tune with RFI... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-01, 18:53:58 (193.37.254.67)
The RFI can be mitigated and brought under control...... The Auto-Tune can not. .......
181: General Asylum, RE: My take (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-01, 18:51:24 (193.37.254.67)
"Listen to Tom Fine's breathtaking Plangent remastering of his parents' Paray/Detroit Saint-Saëns 3rd Symphony. It's better than 15 ips/half-track tape... a lot better. Get it from prostudiomasters.co .......
182: Inmate Central, Audiophile Bacon....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-07-01, 03:01:50 (68.109.145.69)
I sometimes wish my oven wasn't being used as a storage cabinet for pots and pans.......... .......
183: General Asylum, RE: Inventions that ruined audio .... triodes view (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-30, 23:05:15 (68.109.145.69)
"- most that I have heard were not ideally integrated with the main speakers particularly planer speakers ... some can be good if they are very high quality and you really know what you are doing " Dr .......
184: General Asylum, RE: Just curious... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-30, 23:00:24 (68.109.145.69)
I guess some people are more sensitive to "digititis" than I am...... I can tolerate good digital playback (most often CD playback), but there is still a lot of digital audio playback that I believe i .......
185: General Asylum, RE: Vinyl and tubes are filtering mechanisms (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-30, 22:48:37 (68.109.145.69)
I've seen frequency response for both vinyl and tube components measuring within +/- 1 dB from 20 Hz to 20 kHz..... "Filtering" suggests alteration of the frequency response to a more significant degr .......
186: General Asylum, RE: Cassette playback isn't susceptible to the same issues as digital playback. It just isn't. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-30, 22:36:59 (68.109.145.69)
"For digital playback you got seismic type vibration, you got the CD flopping around inside the transport, you got scattered laser light infecting the photodetector. It's a wonder the stupid things wo .......
187: General Asylum, There Is One Thing Worse than All Of These....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-30, 18:12:35 (193.37.254.179)
Auto-Tune in recordings..... Especially remastered recordings in which the originals did not have it. .......
188: Digital Drive, RE: Optical Input Sounds a Lot Better (To Me)...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-29, 11:04:05 (193.37.254.179)
"Interesting. I have an optical output on my Audiolab (I only just realized!). I'm gonna give it a try! ;)" It will be interesting what you find...... If you're looking for an optical cable, Supra and .......
189: Digital Drive, RE: Gustard X26 Pro arriving soon! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-28, 07:55:22 (193.37.254.179)
That's an interesting quirk..... I would think the choice of digital filter would not make a difference with "skipping" in playback, unless the "error correction" isn't as robust with a filter with le .......
190: Digital Drive, Optical Input Sounds a Lot Better (To Me)...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-28, 07:38:30 (193.37.254.179)
"- the coax SPDIF input, which is the one I've been using so far with my Audiolab 6000CDT transport, doesn't seem to benefit from the iFi Audio SPDIF purifier 2 (that is not a bad thing). My previous .......
191: Digital Drive, RE: Gustard X26 Pro arriving soon! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-27, 18:43:50 (193.37.254.67)
I tried the Gustard R26 as well..... Thought it was a downgrade from the X26 Pro..... .......
192: Digital Drive, RE: Gustard X26 Pro arriving soon! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-27, 18:42:10 (193.37.254.67)
Good DAC for the $$$..... I prefer the "Composite" filter setting...... It really likes the Oyaide Black Mamba Sigma V2 power cord...... .......
193: General Asylum, THE Show 2023 Best In Show.... And Other Awards/Comments...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-24, 21:17:19 (193.37.254.78)
Apologies for the delayed post..... Best In Show: MC Audiotech.... Emerald Bay I..... Featuring $250k David Berning single-ended monoblock amplifiers. . Runner Up 1: Scott Walker/McIntosh/Magico.... .......
194: General Asylum, Not Much of a Poll...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-24, 15:42:51 (193.37.254.78)
The "yes" vote won, however....... .......
195: General Asylum, Apologies..... And a Poll........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-21, 22:51:19 (68.109.145.69)
I normally would have posted my "awards" for an audio show promptly after it ended..... But pardon my silence..... I've been so busy (non-audio) these past few weeks..... And the poll..... I could sti .......
196: General Asylum, RE: I was there (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-16, 21:14:50 (193.37.254.180)
I think the room was too small for the system..... Generally speaking, the driver integration suffers when seated too close to huge multi-driver speakers. .......
197: General Asylum, RE: The pic of this thing caught my eye. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-15, 23:02:01 (193.37.254.183)
I guess haters of a certain former president won't buy this thing..... [-; .......
198: General Asylum, You're Welcome.... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-14, 15:35:19 (68.109.145.69)
The pics help me remember the experiences at the shows. .......
199: General Asylum, RE: Thanks. That's a lot of pictures and a whole lot of equipment. Nt (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-14, 15:30:12 (68.109.145.69)
I took 427 pictures at the 2023 show (I think I hit all the rooms)..... I took 721 pictures at the 2019 THE Show (and I missed a few rooms)..... I took 754 pictures at the 2018 RMAF (and missed a few .......
200: Digital Drive, RE: What's Spinning ? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-14, 08:16:50 (193.37.254.76)
CDs........ Patricia Barber - "A Distortion Of Love" Radiohead - "Kid A" Bartok "Concerto for Orchestra" Paavo Jarvi/NHK (Burned from 16/44 file download) Duke Ellington - "Masterpieces by Ellington" .......
201: General Asylum, RE: Which measurements correspond to to the sensation of good soundstaging in a typical stereo system ? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-13, 22:17:27 (68.109.145.69)
I personally believe low-frequency linearity and high-frequency extension play a big role in "soundstage"...... The bottom end can provide a sense of "size" and the top end can provide spatial cues... .......
202: General Asylum, RE: THE Show 2023 Pictures...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-13, 21:37:19 (68.109.145.69)
"Did you take some of the pictures on set-up day?" I would if non-press people were allowed to visit the rooms, which I believe is not the case. (I would take an extra day just to get the pics out of .......
203: General Asylum, THE Show 2023 Pictures...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-13, 19:39:09 (68.109.145.69)
I don't think I took as many as in past shows, but here we are...... http://www.iabmed.com/audiopics/THE_Show_2023_1.html http://www.iabmed.com/audiopics/THE_Show_2023_2.html http://www.iabmed.com/ .......
204: General Asylum, RE: My take from the THE show in Costa Mesa (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-13, 19:28:41 (68.109.145.69)
" What were the issues with the PBN speakers?" Dynamic "shout"..... Which was an issue with about 75 percent of the rooms...... It will still make "Honorable Mention" in my "Best In Show" awards...... .......
205: General Asylum, RE: My take from the THE show in Costa Mesa (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-13, 16:33:41 (193.37.254.73)
I met someone from San Francisco who's more exacting about sound than I am..... (He took really detailed notes at the show... ) I invited him to critique my systems in AZ (he knows Alan Kafton)..... W .......
206: General Asylum, RE: My take from the THE show in Costa Mesa (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-13, 11:51:20 (193.37.254.73)
"The room walls were way too thin. The bleed was extremely problematic" I guess I got used to this at shows, I kind of "blocked it out"...... "I was once again truly shocked by audiophiles enthusiasm .......
207: General Asylum, RE: this might sound Esoteric ,,,,, (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-13, 11:36:55 (193.37.254.73)
The name didn't register while I was at the show, but here it is...... The High End by Oz was one of the better sounding rooms. .......
208: General Asylum, RE: ...but the music... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-13, 11:27:27 (193.37.254.73)
A lot of Mark Knopfler was played..... Steely Dan and Michael Hedges..... A common request was Nils Lofgren "Keith Don't Go"..... A lot of Blue Note jazz.... There was also an interesting track of Igo .......
209: General Asylum, Yes....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-13, 11:11:23 (193.37.254.73)
To be honest, it was not one of the better sounding rooms..... I liked Upscale Audio's Tannoy room a lot better....... .......
210: Asylum Feedback/Support, Posting non-YouTube Video on Audio Asylum..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-12, 19:31:43 (68.109.145.69)
I tried embedding a standard MP4 video using the "iframe" tags, and AA still doesn't accept the "iframe" tags..... (I don't want to use YouTube because its copyright rules immediately deletes any musi .......
211: General Asylum, RE: this might sound Esoteric ,,,,, (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-12, 18:07:22 (193.37.254.75)
" ..... but the best CD playback was by way of Esoteric electronica all in one players " Was this recent production or vintage? .......
212: General Asylum, RE: Some Observations and Thoughts On the Costa Mesa THE Show...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-12, 16:03:28 (68.109.145.69)
"Any recollection of which CD players were sounding great?" Didn't pay close attention, but I got a few in pictures. (I remember one in the Prana room.) .......
213: General Asylum, RE: Ah, the "Interlochen Theme"! (YT) (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-12, 10:05:53 (193.37.254.75)
I'd probably enjoy this..... Liszt "Les Preludes" is an electrifying work to listen to in the flesh. .......
214: General Asylum, RE: best sound of the show at the big Costa Mesa event today ..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-12, 00:19:53 (68.109.145.69)
There was also a field coil demo at the show..... Although the field coil speaker sounded demonstrably better than an identical speaker of conventional magnet drivers, I thought the driver integration .......
215: General Asylum, Some Observations and Thoughts On the Costa Mesa THE Show...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-12, 00:17:09 (68.109.145.69)
1. The show was definitely smaller than shows I've attended in the past.... Although the organizers told me it was bigger than last year's show... (Which I missed due to flight cancellation..... I tra .......
216: General Asylum, RE: I was there earlier today (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-10, 21:36:49 (172.56.185.109)
My Best in Show was the Emerald Bay I room with the MC Audiotech speakers and super-expensive David Berning SE mono amps.... My runners up include the McIntosh/Magico room and the AGD Productions room .......
217: General Asylum, RE: Did you stop in.... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-10, 21:20:09 (172.56.184.179)
"The PBN Audio room? If so, what did you think of them monster MR!777 speakers and Olympia amps? Also did you check out that TT they were using?" Checking my notes, it was maybe the most coherent "hug .......
218: General Asylum, RE: T.H.E. Show this weekend - anyone going? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-10, 18:21:28 (172.56.184.3)
Two days in the books.... It is a smaller show, but still very enjoyable.... I'll have my "awards"..... Some surprises as well.... And of course show pictures. .......
219: General Asylum, RE: I'm 73 now and had always set up the stereo and a workshop (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-02, 09:03:49 (193.37.254.181)
".... I have found over the past several years that I have no energy or interest in music at all." That's unfortunate..... Hopefully that interest will return...... I guess I'm wired differently here. .......
220: General Asylum, RE: Don't rule out your habits changing again (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-02, 08:59:14 (193.37.254.181)
In my response, I did put in a qualifier to one's declined interests being "permanent"..... I just know too many people who have ditched vinyl or CDs for more convenient playback options, and have la .......
221: General Asylum, Fading Interest..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-06-02, 08:37:22 (193.37.254.181)
I guess not everybody remains obsessed with high-resolution playback..... And the issue with you is that you already have a resolving system, but have lost interest in such sonic presentation....... ( .......
222: General Asylum, Depends..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-26, 18:04:52 (193.37.254.76)
Some music doesn't gain anything with high-resolution playback..... (Most recent pop, recent country...... ) Some pressings are greatly compromised...... (Insufficient resolution, too much processing, .......
223: General Asylum, RE: Why not listen to everything? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-24, 14:38:09 (193.37.254.182)
Someone recently asked me, "Why does it seem like my system sounds worse when I have guests over?"...... I was thinking about it, and thought, maybe the guests provide realistic and *instant* aural cu .......
224: General Asylum, RE: Lincoln Mayorga & Amanda McBroom LP 1980 Direct-to-Disc Sheffield Lab (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-24, 14:20:34 (193.37.254.182)
The Sheffield album "Growing Up in Hollywood Town" is an album I enjoy for the music, not just for the sound..... I always thought the music on this album had a "haunting" quality to it, to me, this i .......
225: Digital Drive, RE: Philips Little Giant DAC + LPS (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-16, 12:00:15 (193.37.254.76)
What digital inputs does this unit have? Thanks much. .......
226: General Asylum, RE: is it live ..... or is it Memorex ? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-14, 19:10:36 (193.37.254.187)
"I remember reading about Paul Klipsch doing a demo in the 50's with a set of K-Horns and a live performance where it was supposedly indistinguishable." Julian Hirsch of Stereo Review magazine include .......
227: General Asylum, Supposedly Being Truer to the Original Master Tape........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-14, 19:06:11 (193.37.254.187)
I will say this..... Pressings do matter..... I recently got a hybrid SACD of Smetana's "Ma Vlast" by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra with Jakub Hrusa conducting..... The same forces later made a "Dire .......
228: General Asylum, RE: I respect your respectful silence, But I don't have any such affiliations. So I'm gonna rant ;-D (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-14, 18:41:35 (193.37.254.187)
"Fact: there is a bogus belief that AAA mastering is inherently more accurate/superior because anything, ANYTHING digital degrades the sound. This is pure audiophile mythology. And sadly this mytholog .......
229: General Asylum, RE: is it live ..... or is it Memorex ? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-14, 18:30:35 (193.37.254.187)
It's all relative..... I've never heard a system in which I thought a voice was indistinguishable from someone actually in the room...... (But I've never heard a legendary singer live and unamplified. .......
230: Digital Drive, RE: No It Does Not........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-14, 13:40:48 (193.37.254.187)
"I ordered a Pro 26 from Amazon knowing I could return it if it didn't compare to my PS Audio Directstream. I kept it for a week set on Vivid. It came fairly close to the PSA but I sent it back to Ama .......
231: Digital Drive, RE: I Can Only Wish You Luck....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-11, 23:46:48 (193.37.254.182)
"Did these problems develop or were they there to begin with?" Kind of both..... At first the skipping at the end of discs was infrequent..... But gradually, the problem got worse..... (The person who .......
232: Digital Drive, No It Does Not........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-11, 18:34:00 (68.109.145.69)
I don't know what "filter" is used on the 935's DAC... But to my ears, it sounds most similar to the X26 Pro in "Composite" filter mode..... Which happens to be my filter of preference on the X26 Pro. .......
233: Digital Drive, I Can Only Wish You Luck....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-11, 17:28:54 (68.109.145.69)
I once had an Audiomeca Mephisto transport a long time ago...... This top-loader was the best sounding transport I've ever had..... (And maybe the best looking too... ) The problem was it had "skippin .......
234: Digital Drive, Gustard X26 Pro Re-Visit....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-11, 17:24:14 (68.109.145.69)
I'm only posting this, because it seems like the DAC has a *very* long break-in period...... But it has recently been getting more play time, sparing the tubes and modified Philips CDC935 changers, wh .......
235: High Efficiency Speaker Asylum, Speakers Etc. Compression Tweeters....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-09, 16:01:06 (193.37.254.186)
I'm just wondering if there is a place I can source these particular drivers..... (The 1 3/8 inch screw mount.) Thank you much. .......
236: General Asylum, Well Bose ndorfer Also Makes Loudspeakers......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-09, 15:49:46 (193.37.254.186)
So I guess the company now has competition..... [-; .......
237: Digital Drive, RE: Toslink? Good/Bad? Coax S/PDIF? Better? Worse? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-08, 07:44:41 (193.37.254.185)
Toslink is *purportedly* "higher jitter"..... But I do believe the issue is mitigated with a better optical link such as Supra or Lifatec...... I use the stock Philips CDC-935 as a CD transport for an .......
238: General Asylum, RE: If you had to start from scratch today ...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-05, 15:18:16 (193.37.254.190)
" ....... if you had to start from 'square one' and taking into consideration your own personal finances ..... what would your system consist of ?" I would probably go with the same source I currently .......
239: Digital Drive, RE: Depends... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-04, 02:37:22 (193.37.254.184)
"Credit both Chord and Apple for decent TOSLINK circuitry?" I believe it's just a transmitter and receiver converting the digital from electrical to optical and vice versa...... But I could be wrong h .......
240: Digital Drive, RE: Toslink? Good/Bad? Coax S/PDIF? Better? Worse? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-04, 02:33:44 (193.37.254.184)
Due to Toslink's "galvanic isolation" of the source from the DAC, the RF interference is confined to the digital processing in the DAC (as opposed to interference from the entire digital chain)..... T .......
241: General Asylum, RE: Fuses..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-04, 02:12:23 (193.37.254.184)
"The high end fuses produce very audible improvements." Agree.... But the system must already be fine tuned in order to realize the improvements..... I just put a Synergistic Purple fuse in my main sy .......
242: General Asylum, Re: Earplug (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-03, 20:43:15 (193.37.254.184)
"The trumpet was at least six feet away, and not pointed directly at Yuja." I watched the video again, six feet is two-thirds the length of a concert grand piano..... The trumpet bell was definitely c .......
243: General Asylum, Re: Earplug (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-03, 20:24:25 (193.37.254.184)
"That would probably explain why musicians have difficulty hearing." A college friend who studied oboe at Cleveland Institute of Music told me that the late Cleveland Orchestra oboist John Mack (his t .......
244: General Asylum, RE: Who Doesn't Love A Hurdy-Gurdy? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-03, 10:27:01 (193.37.254.78)
I thought there was a song from the 1960s about either this or something with similar sounding lyrics...... Thanks for digging it up! .... [-; .......
245: Classical Court, RE: It wasn't just a single shout. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-03, 01:01:06 (193.37.254.184)
Reminded me of a concert I once attended..... There was a "mentally impaired" person seated about 15 seats to my right..... The orchestra was performing Suppe's "Poet and Peasant" Overture...... Durin .......
246: Classical Court, RE: Trifonov/YNS/Philadelphia Rachmaninoff set (sorry - somewhat long) (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-03, 00:47:01 (193.37.254.184)
"FWIW Verizon Hall is an awful sounding hall." That's unfortunate.... One of my favorite halls was the place it replaced, the Academy of Music..... (Never attended the new place.) .......
247: General Asylum, RE: Who Doesn't Love A Hurdy-Gurdy? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-02, 16:56:34 (68.109.145.69)
A violin (viola/cello?) for those who do not know how to play a violin........ .......
248: General Asylum, Opus One....... [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-02, 16:47:41 (68.109.145.69)
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249: General Asylum, Fuses..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-02, 16:46:20 (68.109.145.69)
There is now a $595 one available....... .......
250: General Asylum, RE: Haunting! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-02, 16:39:51 (68.109.145.69)
Yuja could have worn an ear plug in her left ear...... She seemed uncomfortable with that trumpet close to her. .......
251: General Asylum, Two Reasons........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-05-02, 16:36:37 (68.109.145.69)
One, no two listening spaces are identical, so the ideal system for one given room will likely be different from an ideal system in another...... Two, no two listeners have the exact same idea in rega .......
252: General Asylum, RE: I Plan On Going.......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-23, 23:31:10 (68.109.145.69)
My biggest concern will be having enough spare batteries to last the whole show...... My other concern will be show "size"...... Based what I've read about recent shows elsewhere (especially Axpona), .......
253: Vinyl Asylum, RE: it happened to me just today (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-23, 19:24:05 (68.109.145.69)
"Digital has come a long way since even 7 years ago." Digital audio playback has indeed gone a long way in recent time..... There are a lot more good sounding digital audio sources, these are no longe .......
254: Vinyl Asylum, RE: Reissues compared to original pressings (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-23, 19:14:20 (68.109.145.69)
The number of re-mastered recordings that have had excessive processing appied to them is alarming...... Most-notably Auto-Tune..... The number of re-mastered recordings I've found with Auto-Tune appl .......
255: General Asylum, RE: I Plan On Going.......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-23, 16:25:44 (193.37.254.183)
I've posted lots of pics in the past..... I hope to be able to take better notes...... Will also take videos of the better sounding systems. .......
256: Classical Court, RE: The dust has settled on my "Carmina Burana" Shootout... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-22, 18:22:14 (68.109.145.69)
I wasn't aware that MTT and Cleveland did a "Carmina Burana"...... This was a piece that I've heard Cleveland do live in the 1980s with other conductors, this is a work which gives the trumpet section .......
257: Classical Court, RE: Thanks, Rushton - I saw that announcement too (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-22, 18:16:14 (68.109.145.69)
I got the HDTT version of the Paray/Detroit Saint Saens "Organ" Symphony...... Played the released CD..... I did notice the "speed correction," it was lower pitched than the original Mercury..... But .......
258: General Asylum, I Plan On Going.......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-22, 15:50:26 (68.109.145.69)
It will be my first audio show since 2019............. .......
259: Tweakers' Asylum, Am I Looking At This Right? .......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-18, 19:14:50 (193.37.254.76)
It looks like the anti-skate force is being applied in the wrong direction...... It's in essence a "pro-skate" force...... An outward force is being applied *behind* the pivot.... So on the cartridge .......
260: General Asylum, RE: Contemporary trend/ability takes accurate into antiseptic territory (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-15, 22:27:41 (193.37.254.69)
I believe that "accurate" is an idealistic quality that almost never occurs in reality...... (And whenever it does, hardly anyone would realize it.) And too many of us think it somehow equates to an " .......
261: General Asylum, System Matching, Room Matching, Etc. ..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-15, 22:24:52 (193.37.254.69)
Thinking that throwing $$$$ at expensive gear and cables will automatically make the system sound good....... Overlooking factors like impedance matching between preamp and amp or between amp and spea .......
262: General Asylum, RE: Expectation of sound and music (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-14, 18:17:17 (68.109.145.69)
"I began to forget about the emotinal content of the music and listened more to the quality of the sound." I think if the emotional content of the music is stunted, there is something awry with either .......
263: General Asylum, RE: For real "A Once In A Generation Breakthrough In Audio Reproduction Technology" (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-11, 18:07:27 (68.109.145.69)
It seems like this is a product that would lock one into keeping a specific system.... With the same components throughout.... Over an indefinite period of time...... And it would only benefit a si .......
264: Digital Drive, RE: Philips Little Giant DAC + LPS (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-09, 01:14:54 (193.37.254.78)
Where can this DAC be purchased? I'd be curious if this has any semblance to the internal DAC of the old Philips CDC935 CD changer..... Which is still one of the best DACs I've ever heard....... ::: T .......
265: General Asylum, Maybe the Seller is Upgrading To.......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-09, 01:04:52 (193.37.254.78)
This...... .......
266: General Asylum, Didn't Work....... [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-03, 07:17:56 (68.109.145.69)
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267: General Asylum, Agreed....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-02, 09:46:23 (193.37.254.76)
A music track that sounds great to me doesn't mean anything if the listener has no interest in that particular music selection...... And often, with the listener's favorite track, it often brings out .......
268: General Asylum, RE: Schiit is Changing Its Name........... [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-01, 16:15:49 (146.70.174.152)
"Sorry to disappoint but Steve admits its just an April Fools joke within the video that you linked." Sometimes, claiming that something isn't an April Fools joke is, in itself, an April Fools joke... .......
269: General Asylum, Schiit is Changing Its Name........... [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-01, 12:41:05 (91.219.212.203)
Changing to just "S"...... The first letter only.......... This is no April Fools joke.......... Steve Guttenberg broke out the news........... .......
270: Classical Court, RE: Roger Norrington (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-01, 04:49:10 (91.219.212.203)
The only thing I heard Norrington do well was the opening movement to Beethoven's Second Symphony (link), with the NHK Symphony....... But unfortunately, I don't have the rest of that performance..... .......
271: General Asylum, RE: L L L L L L! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-01, 04:13:24 (91.219.212.203)
Since Prof. I Lirpa's death in 2021, due to Covid, a new legacy product from his old company in Ukraine has come out, an upgrade of his infamous Tubeless Amplifier...... Since Ukraine is at war with R .......
272: Classical Court, You Rang? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-01, 02:11:56 (91.219.212.203)
If you think this was my idea, you are badly mistaken...... [-; .......
273: Classical Court, RE: Marc Livshay was Cleveland's loss and SF's Gain! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-04-01, 02:10:16 (91.219.212.203)
The story told to me was that Lifschey would make a brief sound out of his nose prior to playing, and that Szell started to get really annoyed at that sound.......... .......
274: Classical Court, RE: AFAIK, the Boston Symphony has always been at 442Hz. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-30, 09:03:01 (193.37.254.77)
The Boston Symphony once toured and visited Cleveland Severance Hall back around 1983 (give or take a year), I remember having a conversation with an usher at a later Cleveland Orchestra concert, he t .......
275: Classical Court, RE: Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3, Paul Paray conducting, from HDTT (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-30, 08:49:40 (193.37.254.77)
I have a CD of this performance on the Mercury Premium Classics Vol. 2...... I'm pretty sensitive to speed variations in recordings, but I didn't notice anything peculiar about this particular recordi .......
276: General Asylum, RE: One that Sounds Great !! ................................. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-28, 15:01:43 (91.219.212.220)
I've always liked the looks of that system...... I call it elegant...... Yet also unassuming......... .......
277: General Asylum, RE: Why do I own a High-end Stereo System (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-28, 14:57:08 (91.219.212.220)
"Frankly, no matter how nice your house is, it just does not have ultimate Class without a high-end stereo system." If been to otherwise raunchy houses with great audio systems...... It's nice if they .......
278: General Asylum, As If That's Really A Problem.......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-28, 14:46:45 (91.219.212.220)
No two people are exactly the same..... And I think it would be best to refrain judging people's habits, as long as they're otherwise harmless........ .......
279: Digital Drive, RE: USB 2 Cables (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-28, 00:12:23 (193.37.254.77)
"Could someone with experience in USB 2 cables knows if a length of 1.5 meters is preferred over 1 meter and if so why." I personally cannot tell the difference..... But that doesn't mean someone else .......
280: Digital Drive, RE: All this CD player talk made me spin a few... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-28, 00:06:19 (193.37.254.77)
"I find streaming appealing, for convenience and for discovering new music. But not owning any physical support makes me nervous. What if it all crashes and there's no more internet? ^^" There is a mo .......
281: General Asylum, RE: "Musically engaging" is just words (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-21, 07:35:46 (193.37.254.77)
I personally consider an "engaging" system one that creates a "belief" or "illusion" of being at the live event...... But that's just me........ .......
282: General Asylum, RE: most musically engaging system you ever heard ? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-21, 07:31:30 (193.37.254.77)
My friend in Mesa, AZ, who owns what were once amp designer Don Allen's (RIP) personal speakers..... They are Eminence 15 inch coax with compression tweeters...... Since he rotates a lot amplifiers, i .......
283: General Asylum, RE: "Preparing and treating the media all the time" (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-20, 14:35:50 (68.109.145.69)
Everybody I've known who has "wet played" their vinyl has ended up "re-grooving" their vinyl........... Or in other words, damaged their vinyl...... And possibly the stylus/cantilever on their cartrid .......
284: Digital Drive, This Was Said About Vinyl 40 Years Ago....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-20, 12:13:56 (68.109.145.69)
I personally have no use for any comments on "obsolescence"....... More often than not, I prefer the "obsolete" stuff........... .......
285: General Asylum, RE: Disclaimer (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-20, 00:38:30 (68.109.145.69)
I'll never forget audio gear being advertised as "digital ready"...... Maybe the most "BS" claim that was widespread throughout the industry............... .......
286: General Asylum, RE: Rat Shack Optimus 3400 (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-20, 00:35:20 (68.109.145.69)
I tried the Radio Shack CD3400 with outboard power supply for a brief period of time...... In retrospect, it wasn't mind-blowing like what a lot of audiophiles claimed at the time. (The player had a p .......
287: General Asylum, RE: 40th anniversary of the Compact Disc (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-20, 00:27:51 (68.109.145.69)
"Can you remember what was your first cd player and when you purchased it?" Magnavox CDB-460....... (Did "chip upgrades" to the thing..... In retrospect, didn't know if they did any good.) "And, what .......
288: Classical Court, RE: Here are just a couple of examples (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-18, 12:01:56 (193.37.254.76)
"Todd, can you read a score?" Yes and no.......... I can read music, but I cannot sight read music..... I have dyslexia, I marvel at anyone who can look at a piece of music for the first time, and the .......
289: Classical Court, RE: Here are just a couple of examples (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-15, 23:14:42 (193.37.254.69)
I'm always learning something...... I always had this feeling about the Mahler One in the first place, which is why I've always liked the Bruno Walter/Columbia and Tennstedt/Chicago performances of th .......
290: Classical Court, Thank You Much! [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-15, 08:59:41 (193.37.254.69)
.......
291: Classical Court, RE: Bruckner = Broring?? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-15, 08:05:50 (193.37.254.69)
Anton Bruckner's music requires the longest "learning curve" when it comes to understanding his music...... It was a frustrating journey for me personally, but I believe I ultimately got it........ I .......
292: Digital Drive, RE: If a transport is involved a large % of the "digititis" is created when data is read. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-14, 11:24:33 (193.37.254.78)
The errors corrected by Reed Solomon have little to do with digital RFI....... RFI is created by the switching transitions from bits (transistors) switching on and off...... .......
293: Classical Court, RE: Pianos - Does anybody like Bechstein or Yamaha? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-14, 10:07:13 (193.37.254.78)
The only time I heard a Bechstein was an "intermediate" size grand, it had what I thought was a "reserved" sound..... Kind of like a Baldwin, but different harmonic structure..... (I thought this woul .......
294: Classical Court, RE: Conductors who ignore Mahler's "nicht schleppend" indications. . . (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-14, 09:55:48 (193.37.254.78)
I'd be interested in an example in which these indications were followed and in which these indications were ignored..... (I'm not the most knowledgeable in regard to the "technical" markings of the s .......
295: Digital Drive, RE: As long as it's short, you'll likely be fine.... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-13, 12:59:50 (68.109.145.69)
I'm going with 1.5m...... Will be comparing to optical..... I'm hoping the HDMI/I 2 S works because I already use the optical for the CD rig. (Not to mention the claims that I 2 S is a "superior" form .......
296: Classical Court, RE: Ha ha ha (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-13, 07:51:35 (68.109.145.69)
It's not like he was the only person who walked out on the Cleveland Orchestra because of George Szell.............. .......
297: Digital Drive, RE: Decware's digital audio clarifiers - any users here? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-13, 02:04:25 (68.109.145.69)
There is an associated video on YouTube that touts the product (link)...... The fact the guy claims that it will also fix digitally mastered LPs kind of raised red flags, it strikes me as being some s .......
298: Digital Drive, RE: True I2S cable? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-13, 01:46:40 (68.109.145.69)
"A 'true' I2S HDMI cable is pure marketing hype!" I guess I'll find that out whether this is the case in several days...... .......
299: Digital Drive, This Is What ABX Tests Are For.......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-13, 01:45:02 (68.109.145.69)
The nice thing about doing it in a digital setup is that the line stage's volume control need not be touched...... The volume level would be exactly the same..... I would rather wait for the I 2 S cab .......
300: General Asylum, RE: First no speaker should cost as much as TWO Maerati MC 20s ! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-13, 00:41:27 (68.109.145.69)
He should charge admission by the hour for curious listeners to experience a cost-no-object system...... I'm pretty sure some audiophiles would fork over money to listen to it. .......
301: General Asylum, He Has a YouTube Channel......... [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-13, 00:31:51 (68.109.145.69)
In contrast to Jay's (Audio Lab) YouTube channel, Romy's videos to me have been painfully boring.......... He hasn't posted much recently, and nothing in the past three months........ .......
302: Digital Drive, RE: SMSL SD-9.... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-11, 23:32:16 (68.109.145.69)
"How do you like it as a renderer?" I run it playing files from a USB Flash drive..... This was mainly an AZ Audio/Video Club accommodation, members like bringing USB Flash drives to listen to their o .......
303: General Asylum, RE: Why do we even care what he thinks? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-11, 23:09:19 (68.109.145.69)
I guess one can go the "Car and Driver" route in audio..... But I cannot buy into the notion that throwing money at a system will unequivocally upgrade its sound..... I've tried this personally (at a .......
304: General Asylum, RE: took me 10 seconds to find it (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-11, 05:26:40 (68.109.145.69)
Delete the "&t=255s" at the end of the URL, or you will miss the first half of the video..... [-; .......
305: Digital Drive, RE: Found A Solution....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-10, 17:26:03 (68.109.145.69)
If the absolute polarity is "inverted" (haven't listened closely to suspect that), the Gustard DAC can fix that....... .......
306: Digital Drive, Found A Solution....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-10, 16:57:08 (68.109.145.69)
This one comes down to "dumb operator" error....... There apparently was a setting on the SMSL SD-9 to "invert I 2 S".... I switched it on, it fixed the problem........ (I expected this option on the .......
307: Digital Drive, RE: I2S Channel Reversal........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-10, 10:49:07 (68.109.145.69)
"Why would your L/R be swapped? Did the DAC manufacturer screw up?" No..... The I 2 S transmission for audio was never standardized...... Which means that if one uses two different manufacturers of so .......
308: General Asylum, Saleshack Alert!! ...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-10, 10:21:12 (68.109.145.69)
Did you once post as Brian McCarty on the old rec.audio.opinion forum? .................... .......
309: General Asylum, Tonic Water........... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-10, 07:48:03 (68.109.145.69)
I think I'll drink some good tonic water.......... It contains qanon...... .......
310: General Asylum, RE: Worst than Bolero - Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man! nt (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-10, 07:36:56 (68.109.145.69)
Aaron Copland's "Fanfare" was actually a snippet taken from his Third Symphony..... (I don't know if "Fanfare" or the Third Symphony came first... ) With only minor differences in orchestration..... T .......
311: General Asylum, RE: A Slave Galley Upon the River Styx: What is the Worst Pop Song Ever to Chart? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-10, 07:18:13 (68.109.145.69)
If I were to list a "top 100 worst" pop songs, just about all of them would be songs that came out over the past 15 years...... And just about all of them would have Auto-Tune...... I mean..... The To .......
312: Digital Drive, SMSL SD-9 In the House........... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-10, 00:05:23 (68.109.145.69)
It does play USB Flash drives quite nicely...... (Although it doesn't remember the playback source when powered off and on. I have to "select" it again from the settings menu.) The issue I currently h .......
313: Digital Drive, RE: I2S Channel Reversal........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-09, 22:28:40 (68.109.145.69)
This would require a working knowledge of the HDMI data bus, which I don't have...... I thought there would be a simple adapter available to plug the HDMI cable into a adapter's female socket, and plu .......
314: Digital Drive, I2S Channel Reversal........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-09, 14:46:11 (146.70.174.206)
Is there a simple adapter available that swaps the left and right channels for an I 2 S transmission? Or an HDMI cable that allows for such pinout change? Thank you much. .......
315: General Asylum, Quackery Indeed........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-09, 14:01:25 (146.70.174.206)
"I suspect a lot of the snake oil salesmen know exactly what they are doing and are laughing all the way to the bank." It's as if this problem is unique to audio....... The problem in audio is chump c .......
316: General Asylum, Pro Gear Yes, Audiophile Gear No............ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-09, 09:54:16 (146.70.174.206)
The leasing of pro gear is mainly for studio use...... There is often insurance backing the studio, leaving less risk...... Link is to a pro gear leasing outlet...... .......
317: General Asylum, RE: A guy walks into a bar with a one-foot man sitting on his shoulder. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-09, 09:37:44 (146.70.174.206)
"Well... I'll tell you... I was walking on the beach, saw a brass lamp, rubbed it, and a genie came out. He said I could have one wish. I asked for a twelve inch prick and this is what I got..." Sho .......
318: General Asylum, RE: That was Lang Lang?... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-09, 09:23:20 (146.70.174.206)
"I'll show my proletariat roots by mentioning Ray Charles when blind pianists are being discussed." Stevie Wonder too........... .......
319: General Asylum, RE: That was Lang Lang?... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-09, 08:43:42 (146.70.174.206)
Lang Lang looked "young" in that video...... I initially wondered if this maybe took place 10 to 15 years ago....... By the way, this is not unprecedented...... There is a blind Japanese pianist named .......
320: General Asylum, RE: Very few audiophiles are actually trained listeners (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-09, 08:10:45 (146.70.174.206)
"But it seems a lot of them think they are. And that is at the very root of what this guy was making fun of." Quite possible..... Although most "training" in my experiences is getting familiar with ho .......
321: General Asylum, RE: Audio Masterclass. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-08, 22:34:47 (68.109.145.69)
The only thing I got out of this video is wondering whether Betty was a real audiophile or just someone portraying one...... [-; If 100 audiophiles and 100 non-audiophiles were to be tested by an audi .......
322: Classical Court, Too Many Conversions.......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-05, 21:39:06 (193.37.254.78)
I personally believe that excessive conversion and processing of the audio signal during the recording and distribution process is a worse offender than the playback resolution of the marketed product .......
323: Digital Drive, RE: Another Potential Option......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-05, 08:17:47 (193.37.254.78)
I would have gone this route if the USB Flash drive option wasn't limited to 48kHz resolution...... People who would bring their own music on memory stick could have files of higher resolution stored .......
324: Digital Drive, Thank You All for the Suggestions........... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-05, 08:15:16 (193.37.254.78)
I decided to give the SMSL SD-9 a shot..... I probably would have gone the packaged Raspberry Pi route if the HiFiBerry site didn't constantly have build parts out of stock...... (Most other build sit .......
325: General Asylum, Hill Plasmatronics....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-05, 07:48:11 (193.37.254.78)
I don't think this company is still around, but its claim to fame was a super-tweeter that runs off a gas plasma, it moves the air without any mechanical moving diaphragm.......... It's only drawbacks .......
326: Classical Court, RE: What am I hearing on this recording? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-03, 21:53:19 (146.70.174.218)
Sounds like a mechanically driven instrument, self-playing...... .......
327: General Asylum, RE: price of the ultra high end ,,,,,,, 25 years ago to now (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-03, 09:44:13 (193.37.254.78)
"Jay seems like a nice guy. But I find his utter lack of knowledge in audio to be shocking. And he actually charges audiophiles for consulting! He also seems to think the only measurement of a compone .......
328: General Asylum, RE: price of the ultra high end ,,,,,,, 25 years ago to now (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-03, 07:41:21 (193.37.254.78)
"Ultra high end" seems to have caught on in YouTube, with channels by Jay's Audio Lab and Audiophile Junkie..... Showcasing systems that would cost as much as a typical house..... These systems likely .......
329: General Asylum, Good Deal.......... [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-03, 07:29:14 (146.70.174.228)
This particular orchestra sailed under my radar, it performs at a very high level..... That was a first rate Grieg "Morning Mood"...... This is one of many such orchestras out there...... If I went pu .......
330: General Asylum, RE: price of the ultra high end ,,,,,,, 25 years ago to now (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-02, 20:08:08 (68.109.145.69)
I believe if you replace the Seahawks mat with a Steelers mat, the system will sound better due to more uniform acoustic absorption/reflection..... [-; .......
331: Digital Drive, Another Potential Option......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-02, 01:15:44 (68.109.145.69)
The Ranhe RH-899X decoder...... The issue is that it's an unknown Chinese manufacturer, and want to verify that the user interface has an English language option...... But it otherwise has what I'm lo .......
332: Classical Court, RE: Oops! Looks like I drove someone else away! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-01, 14:59:46 (193.37.254.68)
This community can be a fire pit at times...... I once suggested a "Flame" board, to transfer heated discussions over there (just the branches of threads, but not entire threads), to "keep the peace" .......
333: Digital Drive, RE: This might work (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-03-01, 08:50:15 (193.37.254.73)
It would likely work for a home theater setup, but not a two channel audio-only setup...... Because it appears to need a video monitor in order to operate the unit, I don't use (or intend to use) a vi .......
334: Digital Drive, RE: OK, now we're getting somewhere ................... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-28, 17:12:20 (68.109.145.69)
The seller of this unit removed the optical out...... I would have told him that I prefer optical, in spite of the "poorer" measured jitter performance...... I probably would have gone this route had .......
335: Digital Drive, RE: OK, now we're getting somewhere ................... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-28, 16:22:29 (68.109.145.69)
I'm totally clueless in regard to which Raspberry Pi components to get, what external options to use in regard to controlling the player (if Volumio has an Android app or if I can use Roon), and what .......
336: Digital Drive, RE: SMSL SD-9? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-28, 15:00:55 (68.109.145.69)
Funny you brought up the extension cable..... I already purchased one..... [-; I'm leaning to the SD-9, but am still open to a good Raspberry Pi option...... .......
337: Digital Drive, SMSL SD-9? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-28, 01:11:14 (68.109.145.69)
I kind of stumbled into this product..... Unless I'm missing something, this could be a turnkey solution..... Seems like it can take USB Flash drive music files, and send digital output to a DAC...... .......
338: Digital Drive, RE: Plug the USB Drive into where?.......nt (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 19:00:09 (68.109.145.69)
How does the digital signal get to the DAC? .......
339: Digital Drive, RE: Plug the USB Drive into where?.......nt (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 17:47:39 (68.109.145.69)
"Does your internet router support USB connectivity?" Yes..... But I don't think it would fit my application..... I don't think I can play music files stored on a USB Flash drive plugged into an inter .......
340: Digital Drive, RE: OK, now we're getting somewhere ................... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 17:43:53 (68.109.145.69)
Thank you for the suggestion...... I might go this route. This device is mainly for my own use..... For A) evaluating my own memory stick so I know I have something proper to play when I use it in oth .......
341: General Asylum, RE: Taste and expertise are not the same thing (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 15:14:09 (68.109.145.69)
I'm like that with sports...... I was never good at any sport (except for table tennis), nor have I coached any sport, yet I can see good or bad plays, and good or bad players..... Music is kind of th .......
342: General Asylum, RE: Book Series Character. Google! nt (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 15:10:07 (68.109.145.69)
I guess this individual is capable of reproducing musical events in his head...... People have accused me of doing that....... .......
343: General Asylum, There Are No Wrong Answers......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 14:58:14 (68.109.145.69)
"Folks who have great taste in music but poor system vs ...... the opposite - folks with great audiophile systems and a Tin ear." Tastes in music is too subjective to criticize anyone's tastes in it.. .......
344: General Asylum, RE: Misnomer ... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 14:42:46 (68.109.145.69)
I might criticize the music, but will never criticize anyone for liking it........... .......
345: General Asylum, RE: So you saying I need to upgrade brain not equipment (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 14:39:18 (68.109.145.69)
"If brain is most important, how does one upgrade to a new one?" Ear training..... Plain and simple..... One can learn a lot about sound, and better understand the deficiencies of reproduced audio, by .......
346: General Asylum, RE: Well, I have a good stereo ... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 14:27:23 (68.109.145.69)
My only question is did you ever listen to "Kind of Blue" on vinyl? If yes, it's likely the music itself that's boring to you...... But I do ask because I do believe that poor digital audio playback t .......
347: Digital Drive, RE: That's why I'm asking what the OP wants ..... I still don't know............nt (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 14:17:53 (68.109.145.69)
To make it simple, a device that takes music files stored on a USB flash drive and sends out the digital data (via optical, coax, or USB cable) to an existing DAC. .......
348: Classical Court, RE: Cleveland Orchestra Release Schedule for 2023 (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 13:26:51 (68.109.145.69)
It's good that they're making recordings again, at a decent rate...... I just hope they don't use that same oversized packaging that scuffs the disc when removed from and placed in the package. (If th .......
349: Digital Drive, RE: Plug the USB Drive into where?.......nt (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 10:33:40 (68.109.145.69)
Thank you for the suggestions...... I was hoping to find something similar to the Cambridge Audio CXN V2, except without a built-in DAC...... (I don't want to spend money on features I don't need.) Th .......
350: Digital Drive, Doesn't Matter........... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 10:13:17 (68.109.145.69)
If it has a streamer, it would be a bonus...... (I would maybe use a streamer if someone wanted to listen to music that both he/she and I don't have.) It would also be interesting to find out the soni .......
351: Digital Drive, RE: Plug the USB Drive into where?.......nt (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 07:46:11 (68.109.145.69)
Servers with USB drive playback capability...... I'm looking for something that won't break the bank........ .......
352: Digital Drive, RE: Or... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 07:44:34 (68.109.145.69)
"The Oppo 103 in my HT supports USB and I use one of these in an adapter containing my music library." It could work..... But I'd rather use the outboard DACs that I'm currently using. (I already use .......
353: Digital Drive, RE: "USB Memory Stick" Servers....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 07:40:40 (68.109.145.69)
"So, the Music Files are on a USB Thumb Drive?" Yes..... "How does the USB Drive get the Music to the Audio System you are evaluating?" Plug the USB drive into a USB port, and it plays the music direc .......
354: Digital Drive, "USB Memory Stick" Servers....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 00:58:24 (68.109.145.69)
Is there an inexpensive laptop or server solution for listening to music files stored to USB memory sticks/Flash drives? (This is mainly for those who want to bring their music for evaluating an audio .......
355: General Asylum, RE: EBTech HumX (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-27, 00:52:43 (68.109.145.69)
I've used it in the past, but don't currently use it....... It's a "hit or miss" product, depending on setup...... My only comment is that it wouldn't hurt to try it. .......
356: General Asylum, RE: Last summer... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-26, 08:32:17 (68.109.145.69)
Kind of reminded me of a weird event when I was a child...... There was a large Blaupunkt table radio playing an AM radio station in my bedroom..... And there were thunderstorms outside, there was you .......
357: General Asylum, RE: "The Most Epic Song Ever Written", a little BBC hyperbole for ya (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-23, 09:27:26 (193.37.254.70)
Am I the only one who thought that song was plagiarized from the Donna Summer hit song "On The Radio"? ................. .......
358: General Asylum, RE: Strangest non-event at a show. What's yours? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-16, 20:04:26 (68.109.145.69)
I attended a Porcupine Tree concert at the House of Blues in Hollywood, CA....... Robert Fripp was supposed to be the opening act, but apparently was ill, and a different act performed the opener..... .......
359: General Asylum, RE: Strangest non-event at a show. What's yours? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-16, 20:01:37 (68.109.145.69)
When I attended my first Rush concert at Pacific Amphitheater near Los Angeles (Power Windows tour), between two songs, what appeared to be some brief circus act came on stage..... My only speculation .......
360: General Asylum, RE: Digital Volume Controls, Bit Truncation, and Lost Dynamics? ....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-16, 09:32:56 (193.37.254.78)
I believe this is generally an issue with people who haven't experienced a lot of live music..... I was once like that personally..... I thought if the music "jumped out at me" during loud passages, t .......
361: General Asylum, Digital Volume Controls, Bit Truncation, and Lost Dynamics? ....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-15, 15:24:22 (193.37.254.73)
What it feels like is a distinct lack of dynamic range in the mid bass and bass, regardless of the source. There are songs that I distinctly remember really, really enjoying long ago on a much cheape .......
362: Digital Drive, RE: Again complete Ca-Ca ......................... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-15, 01:36:44 (193.37.254.76)
Streaming does not necessarily store anything to a local drive (aside from a buffer utilized to avoid interruptions in playback), unless you intend to save the file to a server..... And if the streame .......
363: Digital Drive, RE: Lots of discussion on DACs but what about transports? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-15, 01:08:52 (193.37.254.76)
"If the quality of music is a secondary consideration to convenience and trendiness, then take a look at streaming." I think it's only the "quality of sound" (I think you meant to say that) because th .......
364: Digital Drive, Transports Can Be a Crapshoot............. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-15, 00:22:28 (193.37.254.76)
I've owned transports over 2 grand that I didn't like..... I've owned cheap CD changers that seemingly have no business performing such function at a high level..... And here I am with a Philips CDC93 .......
365: Digital Drive, RE: "Crazy expensive" is right: (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-14, 00:40:42 (185.230.126.26)
There are compromised pressings with vinyl too...... Not to mention the sheer difficulty to just get the setup completely right...... I do think the point of diminishing returns is higher than that wi .......
366: General Asylum, RE: HP was wrong (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-11, 16:00:25 (193.37.254.68)
I never implied that attending good amplified concerts was a bad thing...... I just believe unamplified concerts provide an even better reference. .......
367: General Asylum, Miles Davis......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-11, 15:56:13 (193.37.254.68)
Miles Davis is a great acid test for dynamic linearity...... His muted horn should always sound "sweet"..... If the sound "pierces," the dynamic linearity is not quite there. Another one is massed str .......
368: Classical Court, RE: The Dude to NY! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-11, 15:39:44 (193.37.254.68)
I attended a concert at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (the LAPO's home prior to Disney Concert Hall) back in the late 1970s...... Performed Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto and Berlioz' "Symphonie Fantastiqu .......
369: Classical Court, RE: The Dude to NY! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-11, 15:14:14 (193.37.254.68)
"Alan Gilbert was better conductor than given credit for, at least IMNSHO, but powerless to move the orchestra forward in any meaningful way in labor-friendly NYC." I like Alan Gilbert too..... He has .......
370: General Asylum, Never Had a Problem........ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-11, 14:18:43 (193.37.254.68)
The best part is that hifishark.com includes sales ads from that site, in case you're looking for a good deal on a used item. .......
371: General Asylum, RE: Settlement amount: sixteen cents... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-11, 14:16:19 (193.37.254.68)
It probably costs more to deposit the check............ .......
372: Digital Drive, RE: I'd rather listen to my car stereo (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-11, 14:08:27 (193.37.254.68)
I've often mentioned that getting the playback source right is paramount, because getting it wrong cannot be fixed further down the signal chain...... Although in the past, this usually applied to the .......
373: Digital Drive, RE: "Crazy expensive" is right: (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-11, 09:43:53 (193.37.254.68)
With all the encounters I've witnessed in regard to compromised pressings via streaming services and remastered digital recordings, I sometimes wonder if the performance of products at these prices ar .......
374: Digital Drive, RE: First Impressions..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-11, 09:32:42 (193.37.254.68)
The "digital fatigue" has faded somewhat..... It is a very satisfying DAC, especially for the money..... .......
375: General Asylum, RE: One of the plaintiff law firms is famous in class actions--Bursor & Fisher (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-11, 09:26:30 (193.37.254.68)
"They would not have taken case unless they thought they would make money." I believe in recent time, most law firms operate this way....... .......
376: General Asylum, RE: Magazine Reviews tied to Ad Revenue - nt (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-11, 09:24:24 (193.37.254.68)
Are there any reviews or review publications that are NOT tied to ad revenue? ...... (The only one I can think of was the Absolute Sound way back in its early days.) .......
377: General Asylum, RE: More evidence of the cult-like lunacy of the vinyl crowd. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-11, 09:06:42 (193.37.254.68)
"They really can't hear any difference between all-analog and some digital processing." Depends on the digital processing..... Too often, there are "enhancements" applied to the digital processing tha .......
378: General Asylum, RE: you can re bias the amp ..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-11, 01:43:57 (193.37.254.68)
The biased amp will sound better..... [-; .......
379: General Asylum, RE: Since virtually all systems sound horrible where's the beef? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-10, 13:08:45 (193.37.254.68)
"The biggest hoax the devil ever pulled is making Audiophiles believe their systems sound like they're only 3% from Audio Nirvana." Attending live concerts at good venues tends to change such attitude .......
380: General Asylum, RE: the worst of all evils when evaluating a hifi system ..... is ? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-10, 12:59:23 (193.37.254.68)
Are the "evils" in the context of the procedural part of evaluating a hi-fi system or what you end up hearing while evaluating a hi-fi system? And is it in the context of evaluating my own system or a .......
381: General Asylum, RE: Don't That Beat All (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-09, 09:49:18 (193.37.254.68)
"Question: Does anyone care?" I guess it could help those seeking better sound, but have run into frustrating times in the process..... And possibly getting there with less pain...... (The term "lucky .......
382: General Asylum, RE: Borderline? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-09, 02:41:44 (193.37.254.68)
I do think Jay is well-intentioned..... But I also think he does come off as a "drama queen"....... I brought up the "pressings" issue with him, suggesting he invest in a disc player for his DAC, just .......
383: General Asylum, RE: well...Jay did ask that we share this. Maybe the most ironic thing I have ever seen (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-09, 02:24:46 (193.37.254.68)
Maybe he was totally unaware of the cheap knockoffs that are out there...... And that scammers pass on fakes for the full retail price of the real thing. I actually bought a fake Nordost Odin USB cabl .......
384: General Asylum, RE: Equipmentfile? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-08, 22:56:17 (68.109.145.69)
"A disgusting display of wealth." That's why I mentioned "Liberace"........ The toys are different, but the indulgence is the same. .......
385: Classical Court, RE: The Dude to NY! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-08, 07:37:14 (68.109.145.69)
I personally thought the LAPO hit its highest standards when Carlo Maria Giulini was the music director..... I thought Giulini was phenomenal. .......
386: General Asylum, RE: Pass on the Halcro stack (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-07, 20:47:40 (193.37.254.78)
I was never a Wilson Audio fan myself..... Yet all of the super high-end owners (at least on YouTube) seem to like this brand..... .......
387: General Asylum, RE: If Liberace Were an Audiophile....... [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-07, 20:46:09 (193.37.254.78)
I was surprised by the chirping smoke detectors...... That would certainly be a distraction...... .......
388: Classical Court, RE: The Dude to NY! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-07, 20:41:36 (193.37.254.78)
The New York concert culture will be a lot more demanding than Los Angeles..... The last really successful MD there was Leonard Bernstein..... It will be interesting...... .......
389: General Asylum, RE: If Liberace Were an Audiophile....... [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-07, 13:58:33 (68.109.145.69)
"Even if i found 3 cubic yards of solid gold in my yard, that would not be me." I'd be closer to this guy than I'd like to admit..... Although I would go with more "hot rod" type systems (Don Allen/Do .......
390: Vinyl Asylum, RE: cartridge retipping (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-07, 12:09:37 (193.37.254.67)
VAS is a poor man's SoundSmith..... A good value option. .......
391: General Asylum, If Liberace Were an Audiophile....... [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-07, 07:56:42 (68.109.145.69)
Not just one cost-no-object system, but a vast collection of them...... .......
392: General Asylum, "LAN Streaming"...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-06, 13:48:54 (68.109.145.69)
So how does the data get to a LAN server? It's basically the same way it would get to a local server..... One would still need to either rip CDs or connect to the web to get the data....... It seems l .......
393: General Asylum, RE: C-T already has (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-06, 11:28:20 (193.37.254.67)
It seems like streaming and server based playback are being interchanged as being one thing, yet they're two distinctly different forms of playback..... (A lot of products integrate the two forms of p .......
394: General Asylum, RE: Audiophiles without any Mechanical Skills (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-06, 09:15:19 (193.37.254.67)
There are so many facets to turntable setup, it is almost to the point where live training could make the difference between one's vinyl venture being a satisfying success or it being a miserable fail .......
395: General Asylum, RE: This is a nightmare (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-06, 07:55:53 (193.37.254.67)
The most common issue I've encountered over the years, in this regard, was the DAC being set for the wrong input...... (You may have the DAC input set to optical or coax instead of HDMI..... ) This is .......
396: General Asylum, RE: Ah yes, RTR. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-05, 21:14:06 (68.109.145.69)
The computer system is still invaluable..... YouTube videos can still sound really good............. .......
397: General Asylum, RE: Ah yes, RTR. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-05, 20:08:32 (68.109.145.69)
"R2R has still been the best sound I have heard at audio shows. Vinyl is second and CD third and computer audio bases sources a very distant last." I think people's opinions on computer audio and stre .......
398: General Asylum, RE: +1. Same here. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-05, 19:48:26 (68.109.145.69)
People ask me why I haven't gone other routes, in regard to audio sources..... My simple answer is that I just don't like the sound of those other routes...... I also like to have total control over t .......
399: General Asylum, And I Thought It Stood For "I Only Want"..... [-; [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-05, 19:37:30 (68.109.145.69)
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400: General Asylum, RE: Are we past a crossroad? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-04, 18:12:34 (68.109.145.69)
I listen to vinyl..... I listen to CD..... Very happy with both..... .......
401: Digital Drive, First Impressions..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-04, 18:03:41 (68.109.145.69)
Running optical from the PC, using a ZeroZone linear power supply, in my computer system. Pros: Very resolute, can resolve the instruments of a large orchestra as well as any DAC I've heard..... Has t .......
402: Classical Court, Holy Cow...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-03, 22:16:07 (193.37.254.67)
The contrabassoon had the "crook" installed upside-down........ ;-] .......
403: General Asylum, RE: Oopsy daisy (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-03, 07:29:07 (68.109.145.69)
"I certainly hope you don't think I'm with QAnon for mentioning it." If you are, I still don't care..... Maybe you need to buy this...... It could cure your personal fixation with whatever this "Qanon .......
404: General Asylum, RE: "Misinformation"....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-02, 11:33:03 (68.109.145.69)
The only other comment I have is that those who constantly bring up and talk about "misinformation" are often the ones most likely to be providing or believing misinformation........... .......
405: General Asylum, I Don't Care...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-02, 08:06:49 (68.109.145.69)
I don't care about "QAnon"....... Maybe you should open a Twitter account, and bash it over there..... You might actually get an audience. .......
406: Digital Drive, RE: SMSL Sanskrit 10th MKIII best DAC Bargain (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-01, 20:00:37 (193.37.254.78)
The DAC was cheap enough, I figured I'd give it a whirl..... The problem is unlike when the MKII came out, there is now stiff competition in the budget range. .......
407: Digital Drive, RE: SMSL Sanskrit 10th MKIII best DAC Bargain (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-01, 17:55:06 (193.37.254.78)
I wonder how it compares to the MkII version...... It would be nice if SMSL had a "trade up" option...... .......
408: General Asylum, "Misinformation"....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-01, 15:47:43 (193.37.254.78)
I don't like just calling something "misinformation" or "disinformation"..... And then walking away...... If there is something that I believe is misinformation, I try to at least explain *why* it's m .......
409: General Asylum, RE: Also, it's the same problem that 'Fake News' Creates .................. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-01, 14:55:41 (193.37.254.78)
"For the uneducated in Audio that are trying to learn what is important and what is just for profit by a few scammers, it gets impossible to for them to discern the truth." I guess we agree on somethi .......
410: General Asylum, RE: QAnon alert! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-01, 14:40:23 (193.37.254.78)
"No, I'm not QAnon but it appears you are, seeing RFI behind every rock." So "QAnon" is something bad..... (I don't know why you don't just say it's "bad"..... As opposed to using a mysterious buzzwor .......
411: General Asylum, RE: ? catspaw for the bling biz (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-02-01, 11:04:20 (68.109.145.69)
"The point of diminishing return is certainly real, but it's up to the individual to determine that point. FWIW, I'm thinking this "point" could vary pretty dramatically." Some people think the point .......
412: Classical Court, RE: Hail Cesar! (Seems I've been neglecting Franck for too long) (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-31, 22:49:03 (68.109.145.69)
Cesar Franck's Symphony, also in D, is one of the most underrated orchestral works in the repertoire...... The best performance to make recording IMO was the Munch/Boston, on RCA LP.... .......
413: General Asylum, RE: QAnon alert! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-31, 20:58:54 (68.109.145.69)
"Eggs Akley! You catch on quick. RFI is another one. :-)" So you admit to being part of this "QAnon?"..... ;'D .......
414: General Asylum, RE: ? catspaw for the bling biz (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-31, 20:54:31 (68.109.145.69)
One man's "diminishing returns" could be another man's "jaw-dropping difference"....... Audio is so subjective, it would be pointless to judge others' approaches to the hobby. .......
415: General Asylum, RE: By far the best CD system I've heard is only two Metro stops away. Color me lucky (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-31, 14:18:07 (68.109.145.69)
"He got to the point he was able to disengage the Reed Solomon error correction routine. Which cannot be done by the way on any CD player that isn't up to the task, even 20,000 dollar players." It wou .......
416: General Asylum, RE: QAnon alert! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-31, 11:49:18 (68.109.145.69)
"It has to do with the spread of unsubstantiated claims, often on social media." I read this comment, and the first thing that came to mind was certain audio tweaks..... [-; .......
417: General Asylum, RE: Mapleshade / Omega Mikro / Wacky Steaming Pile (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-31, 07:49:47 (68.109.145.69)
I had one of those power cords..... But was afraid to use it..... It was so "flexible and loose" inside, I thought it was a short circuit waiting to happen. .......
418: General Asylum, RE: A different question for #4. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-31, 01:38:29 (68.109.145.69)
I guess that power cord won't get UL approved...... [-; .......
419: General Asylum, "Door Hinge"....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-30, 16:39:36 (193.37.254.67)
I guess Eminem was useful for something.............. .......
420: General Asylum, RE: QAnon alert! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-30, 16:38:34 (193.37.254.67)
I've seen you mention "QAnon" on quite a few occasions..... Is this something we should know about? .......
421: General Asylum, RE: things I have always wondered about the Audio hobby ,,,,, (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-30, 16:10:47 (193.37.254.67)
"For one, ripped seedees just sound better than the seedee itself in a cdp." Whenever I see a comment like this, it reminds me that there have been so few CD playback rigs that actually sound good.... .......
422: General Asylum, Why Are Oranges Round? [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-30, 15:57:23 (193.37.254.67)
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423: General Asylum, RE: things I have always wondered about the Audio hobby ,,,,, (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-30, 15:56:46 (193.37.254.67)
1) Did speaker manufactures who ran massive ads in the magazines about their access to anechoic chambers - do so to make the absolute best speakers they could or was it a strategy for using the cheap .......
424: Digital Drive, RE: Geshelli Labs j2 (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-29, 22:34:26 (193.37.254.67)
The Geshelli J2 AKM is a "budget reference"..... I think it's unbeatable at the price point...... I use one for the headphone rig and another for the "vintage" system. Pros: Absence of harshness Warm- .......
425: Classical Court, RE: Chicago Symphony Concert Last Night in Mesa, AZ..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-27, 18:47:41 (68.109.145.69)
"My high school concert band had just played the Leidzen transcription of Baba-Yaga/Great Gate of Kiev, so my curiosity was piqued. I needed to hear the whole piece." I once experienced the Sergei Gor .......
426: Classical Court, Are You Sure? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-27, 17:44:49 (68.109.145.69)
View YouTube Video .......
427: Digital Drive, RE: Let's try and tone down the rhetoric and snide comments... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-27, 11:47:04 (193.37.254.67)
"I closed down the thread on sample rate down below based on comments and on the fact that things had run their course." Thanks for piquing my curiosity..... [-; .......
428: Digital Drive, RE: Gustard DAC's type 26 - which one? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-27, 11:39:19 (193.37.254.67)
I like the X26 Pro, didn't like the R26.... The later models will be interesting.......... .......
429: Classical Court, Boundless Is Right....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-27, 08:48:06 (193.37.254.67)
I guess if someone here spoke irreverently about Ayako Uehara, I'd take it personally too...... ;-] .......
430: Classical Court, RE: Woman conducting the Cleveland Orchestra (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-25, 07:56:34 (193.37.254.70)
I would have expected this list to be a lot longer..... The Cleveland Orchestra is renowned for having minorities as both conductors and musicians...... Far more than other major orchestras...... ::: .......
431: Classical Court, RE: "95 percent of the time, soloists perform concertos without sheet music" (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-25, 07:45:28 (193.37.254.70)
"How many of them have performed Rach III without sheet music having not played it or practiced it in 3 years? Certainly you can appreciate how *that* makes this somewhat unique?" Wow..... Even Vladim .......
432: Classical Court, RE: I have started to watch "Tar"... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-24, 14:51:59 (193.37.254.70)
I watched the trailer, I heard "Cleveland Orchestra" mentioned as an orchestra that "Lydia Tar" had conducted, yet I never heard of her..... (I follow the Orchestra on the Web quite closely, and watch .......
433: Classical Court, RE: I Mis-Heard Muti...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-24, 14:30:54 (193.37.254.70)
There was an amusing moment, before the Beethoven Eight was to be performed..... Apparently, Maestro Muti got a false signal to enter the stage, the orchestra hadn't tuned yet...... The musicians then .......
434: Classical Court, RE: I Mis-Heard Muti...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-24, 14:20:35 (193.37.254.70)
I admit, from where I was seated, I did not pick up everything he was saying..... The only word I heard accurately was "intermezzo"...... (People seated around me didn't hear him clearly either.) ::: .......
435: Classical Court, RE: I will hear him next week, so thanks (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-24, 14:18:31 (193.37.254.70)
"berate is 8 and benign is 9" But 4 is before both of them. .......
436: Classical Court, RE: Yuja's Rach 3 and Steinmetz concert hall in Orlando (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-24, 14:13:56 (193.37.254.70)
"She played all 4 without sheet music which par for the course for her playing Rachmaninov." 95 percent of the time, soloists perform concertos without sheet music...... And the other 5 percent is usu .......
437: Digital Drive, Hardware? .... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-24, 13:20:52 (193.37.254.70)
Just wondering what the actual devices are to receive internet radio..... Thank you much! .......
438: Classical Court, Conductor Rico Saccani.... [yt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-24, 11:49:17 (193.37.254.70)
His performance of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony was the best I've ever encountered........ Link is with the same Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. (Warning: Recording is not audiophile quality.) ::: TOP .......
439: Classical Court, I Mis-Heard Muti...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-24, 11:24:45 (193.37.254.70)
"The encore was an intermezzo from Giordano's opera 'Fedora.'" I could have sworn that Muti said "Chopin"..... (I told the person to my right what I thought I heard Muti say.) It seemed kind of strang .......
440: Jazz Alley, An Abrupt Change in TV Programming in the Late 1960s...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-24, 02:04:27 (193.37.254.70)
Shows like this were suddenly taken off the air around 1969....... Orchestral concerts, country westerns, and some of the iconic TV series were also taken off the air at that time....... That was the .......
441: Classical Court, Coincidence? ....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-24, 01:46:48 (193.37.254.70)
Is there a relationship between the Liadov work and Mussorgsky's "Pictures?"...... It's weird that the LP has the same combination of works as the post-intermission portion of Sunday's CSO concert.... .......
442: Classical Court, RE: Chicago Symphony Concert Last Night in Mesa, AZ..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-23, 18:02:01 (193.37.254.78)
"Muti's EMI recording of Pictures at an Exhibition is still my favorite recording of the piece." The performance I heard yesterday was reminiscent of the Maazel/Cleveland Telarc recording, which happe .......
443: Classical Court, RE: Nice write-up, Todd! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-23, 17:59:34 (193.37.254.78)
"But I was surprised you didn't mention the Szell/Cleveland recording of that work?" I didn't know Szell/Cleveland recorded that work..... I'll have to investigate. .......
444: Classical Court, Chicago Symphony Concert Last Night in Mesa, AZ..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-23, 12:28:00 (193.37.254.78)
Riccardo Muti, conductor...... Performed at the Mesa Arts Center. Didn't realize that he was retiring..... He will be missed! Performed Beethoven's Coriolan Overture and Eighth Symphony, Liadov's "The .......
445: General Asylum, Yes.......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-23, 11:56:44 (193.37.254.78)
The main system is the former, the high-efficiency ("100 dB Club") is closer to the latter............ .......
446: General Asylum, Grills for Girls [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-18, 12:06:02 (68.109.145.69)
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447: Classical Court, RE: Maybe I figured it out.... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-14, 21:28:22 (91.219.212.229)
If it's a mute directly on the bridge, as opposed to a mute on one of the violin strings, I don't ever recall seeing one. .......
448: General Asylum, RE: Placebo Domingo (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-14, 15:48:24 (91.219.212.229)
This is why it is a bad idea to listen for audible differences on Mondays..... [-; .......
449: General Asylum, "Shame?" ............ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-14, 15:46:42 (91.219.212.229)
It's being sucked in to spending significant lucre on placebos. I guess "shame" is in the eye of the beholder...... I gave up on most of the stuff in that placebo category about 15 years ago. Expen .......
450: Classical Court, RE: Speaking of the NHK.... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-11, 18:43:27 (193.37.254.77)
I can't remember much about the program (except that I enjoyed it), but I recall reading a review the next day in the student daily mentioning that the orchestra used some kind of string mutes, resul .......
451: Classical Court, RE: Nice (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-11, 16:46:18 (193.37.254.77)
IMHO the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra is a lot harder to conduct well than one might think from listening to a good recording. It's one of those works that sure don't "Play Themselves." Same goes f .......
452: General Asylum, "Stones and Cones"...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-11, 14:51:13 (193.37.254.77)
Great name for an audiophile tweak shop.............. .......
453: General Asylum, Am I The Only One..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-11, 14:49:08 (193.37.254.77)
.... Who does not take any of this stuff personally? ............ .......
454: General Asylum, RE: RIP: Jeff Beck (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-11, 14:47:17 (193.37.254.77)
Saw him live at the Grove in Anaheim, CA...... Didn't realize he was 78..... I thought he was younger...... RIP.......... .......
455: Classical Court, RE: If you won the Lottery, what would be the orchestra and program of the first recording project you would endow? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-11, 08:36:21 (68.109.145.69)
I'd run the NHK Symphony Orchestra on a North American tour, and perform various concerts with various soloists, recorded to a box set...... Conductors would include Paavo Jarvi, Fabio Luisi, and mayb .......
456: Digital Drive, RE: SMSL DAC (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-07, 00:31:05 (91.219.212.204)
I think you're referring to the SMSL Sanskrit 10th MkII ..... It's still a very good budget DAC, although for me, it ultimately got replaced with a Geshelli J2 AKM, which is what I would recommend in .......
457: General Asylum, RE: Discrete Time Crystals. Yeah, baby! (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-04, 02:20:18 (91.219.212.195)
If anything, it seems like this substance could be developed to generate an "endless source of energy"..... Which up to now has been deemed impossible. .......
458: General Asylum, RE: This mean we're done arguing about absolute polarity?... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-04, 02:09:28 (91.219.212.195)
I once thought absolute polarity was a big deal..... I just let it go..... There are so many good speaker systems whose polarities of the individual drivers are "mixed"... To where such change to the .......
459: General Asylum, RE: Something for us to argue about :-) Isn't it time we stop misusing "subjectivist" and "objectivist"? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-03, 12:41:19 (193.37.254.76)
It's hard to stop something that hasn't really been going on for several years............. .......
460: SET Asylum, RE: Opera Consonance Cyber 845S Monoblock Amplifiers (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2023-01-01, 23:43:13 (193.37.254.67)
"PM if you're interested." I can't.... Your account is set up not to permit emails. (Feel free to email me.) .......
461: General Asylum, RE: Audiophile or Audiofool Tattoos? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-27, 09:13:48 (68.109.145.69)
Tattoos all look like gangrene to me....... It doesn't matter what subject matter the tattoo entails...... .......
462: General Asylum, Oh Man...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-21, 08:14:03 (68.109.145.69)
I was really hoping for a cigar..... [-; Wish you Holiday Cheers..... Hopefully your mood will be more joyous! .......
463: General Asylum, RE: I don't listen to xmas music. I do everything in my power to avoid it. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-21, 07:45:27 (68.109.145.69)
"'The 12 Days of Xmas?' One day of xmas is loathsome enough." Maybe this will cheer you up......... On the twelfth day of Christmas, My true love gave to me: Twelve yards of cable... Eleven virgin vin .......
464: General Asylum, RE: My fave is Nat "King" Cole singing "O Tannenbaum" in German (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-21, 07:41:51 (68.109.145.69)
Last time I heard "O Tannenbaum" in a department store.... A child asked his mom, "What a 'tannenbaum?'...." The child was apparently terrified of Christmas trees because of that last syllable........ .......
465: General Asylum, Sheet Music..... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-21, 07:34:22 (68.109.145.69)
And singing (and sometimes playing) the songs ourselves...... The quality of the performers may be lacking...... But something about the intimate live experience............... Happy Hanukkah! Merry C .......
466: Digital Drive, RE: Not sure I agree... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-21, 01:11:27 (68.109.145.69)
"Please help me find that $150 DAC of my dreams because I could turn over my current inventory for quite a few $thousands$." If you can stretch out $100 more, the Geshelli Labs J2 AKM could fill the b .......
467: Digital Drive, Reviewing the Reviews............ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-21, 00:39:14 (68.109.145.69)
Listening tests are great but must be blind and statistically valid to have weight. Different people will look at reviews with different considerations. (I personally disagree with more listening tes .......
468: General Asylum, More Szell...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-20, 11:26:21 (68.109.145.69)
Rudolf Bing, the longtime general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, was told that George Szell was his "own worst enemy"..... Bing then responded, "Not while I'm alive he isn't!" .......... ::: TOPIC .......
469: General Asylum, RE: classical (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-19, 15:58:08 (68.109.145.69)
Former Cleveland Orchestra music director George Szell did not get along with one time principal cellist Lynn Harrell or one time principal oboist Marc Lifschey...... Both players ended up quitting th .......
470: General Asylum, RE: The indisputable logic of using EQ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-19, 14:14:49 (68.109.145.69)
"If any audiophiles lack the skill to evaluate spectral balance how would they have the skill to evaluate audio gear or recordings?" Audiophiles are good at noticing something wrong with the spectral .......
471: General Asylum, RE: The indisputable logic of using EQ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-18, 20:15:31 (68.109.145.69)
EQ may improve a given recording on a given system...... I think the big problem is very few people truly have the listening skills to consistently improve the mix..... (I've tried this personally, ne .......
472: Digital Drive, Actually Incomplete...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-17, 16:09:50 (193.37.254.68)
Variances in digital filtering and RFI transmissions is often why people prefer one DAC over another..... The variances in performance aren't fully covered in the video, although what was stated in th .......
473: Digital Drive, Semantics.......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-17, 16:06:09 (193.37.254.68)
Although the digital signal is transferred in an "analog" manner, the signal at the receiver is still read as "digital"..... It's semantics, although how well the "analog" transmission is executed, wi .......
474: General Asylum, In the Eye (Ear) of the Beholder....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-17, 13:04:17 (89.38.227.140)
I do think audio gear, like music, falls into two categories: Disposable and timeless...... To give you an idea, I have several 1990s vintage Philips CDC935 CD changers and also a very recent Gustard .......
475: General Asylum, RE: It "Sounds Like" you are using the attenuators backwards (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-14, 22:34:42 (68.109.145.69)
Or maybe it's wired backwards.............. .......
476: Inmate Central, Teleportation...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-13, 22:12:50 (68.109.145.69)
I guess Geoff Kait would appreciate this....... .......
477: SET Asylum, Opera Consonance Cyber 845S Monoblock Amplifiers (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-13, 11:30:48 (68.109.145.69)
This appears to be a good "value" high-power SET amps..... Has anyone had any experience with these amplifiers? Thanks much. .......
478: Digital Drive, This May Be Audiophile Sacrilege...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-12, 08:16:09 (68.109.145.69)
I still use the Philips CDC935 CD changer as a transport, tied to an Audio Technica AT-HDSL1 digital converter for optical cable isolation..... In 15 years of use, I've never had the urge to try a dif .......
479: General Asylum, Is Your Line-Level Setup Single-Ended or Balanced? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-11, 07:53:16 (68.109.145.69)
Presuming your setup is single-ended (RCA interconnects/jacks), you can take an ohmmeter, and first measure resistance between the input signal and output signal points, for each volume control "step" .......
480: General Asylum, RE: This sounds like sheet... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-11, 07:08:34 (68.109.145.69)
"No.... Son.... There is no Bose room........ " .......
481: Digital Drive, RE: If you decide to order that one... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-08, 15:59:55 (91.219.212.204)
The regulator in the LPS may have a different characteristic..... If the upgrade device is not equivalent, you could end up frying the LPS and/or J2...... If you insist on the upgrade, you may want to .......
482: Digital Drive, This One...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-08, 00:05:13 (68.109.145.69)
I personally use this particular linear power supply for my two J2 AKM DACs, one for the headphone rig, the other for the vintage system..... I tried several LPSs with the J2, this one came out on top .......
483: General Asylum, A Great Christmas Gift...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-07, 23:56:15 (68.109.145.69)
Or Hanukkah gift...... For your young son/daughter or grandson/granddaughter...... Or maybe nephew/niece......... .......
484: General Asylum, RE: Why (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-07, 16:37:50 (193.37.254.69)
I attended at a Cleveland Orchestra concert back in the early 1980s at Severance Hall..... Orchestra was performing Brahms' Second Piano Concerto..... The third movement had a cello solo played by one .......
485: General Asylum, George Szell Too.......... [nt] (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-07, 16:21:33 (193.37.254.69)
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486: General Asylum, RE: All aboard for a spectacular musical journey. (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-07, 10:52:42 (193.37.254.69)
When I heard the Radetzky March, I stopped the video..... (Aside from Ravel's "Bolero," the most uninteresting classical piece that I've ever heard.) .......
487: General Asylum, You May Want to Brace the Cabinet............ (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-06, 19:38:49 (193.37.254.78)
The golf clubs may work here..... [-; .......
488: VK music - Sunvalley Audio Forum, RE: Monoblock Version? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-02, 01:14:54 (193.37.254.67)
Thank you for the response..... If you come out with 845 monoblocks in the future, I'd be very interested. .......
489: General Asylum, Speaker Tweaker....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-12-01, 02:32:35 (193.37.254.69)
Tweaker, Tweaker... Please tweak my speaker... Yes, said the tweaker, I will tweak your speaker. I will start a fire, To melt that solder wire. Solder that silver inductor, Silver, silver, the best co .......
490: Digital Drive, RE: Do we really NEED Beatles in DSD? I've said it before.... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-11-30, 09:12:05 (68.109.145.69)
I have not once encountered a high-resolution digital playback source that made me want to switch to it from CD, for any recording........ (Save for that proprietary digital playback source, with prop .......
491: Vinyl Asylum, RE: controlled conditions? doing this once doesn't determine much (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-11-30, 09:02:11 (68.109.145.69)
The turntable in which I did change the direction and didn't change it back (the high-efficiency system turntable), I guess I will listen for several weeks, and find out if I'm enjoying vinyl a little .......
492: VK music - Sunvalley Audio Forum, Monoblock Version? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-11-30, 08:48:47 (68.109.145.69)
I would personally be interested in a monoblock version of this amplifier........... .......
493: General Asylum, Christmas Song..... Updated.......... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-11-30, 07:27:51 (185.230.126.195)
On the twelfth day of Christmas, My true love gave to me: Twelve yards of cable... Eleven virgin vinyls... Ten tubes a glowing... Nine Redbook CDs... Eight interconnects... Seven sets of tweaks... Six .......
494: General Asylum, RE: Interesting article, but weird chart! ;-) (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-11-30, 00:24:46 (45.152.182.152)
The minor keys were paired with the major keys, in which the same 12 notes are played on a keyboard..... .......
495: General Asylum, RE: The Death of the Key Change........... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-11-30, 00:22:18 (45.152.182.152)
"I am bothered more by processed vocals and heavy use of electronic sounds rather than real instruments." The feeling is mutual............ .......
496: General Asylum, First a "Stereo Console"...... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-11-30, 00:20:18 (45.152.182.152)
Similar to the one pictured..... I don't remember the actual unit.... I only remember a "bright green light" illuminated on the lower right corner of the "left speaker" grille on the front of the u .......
497: Vinyl Asylum, Belt Direction? (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-11-29, 22:59:31 (45.152.182.152)
I don't know if this could be "placebo effect" (throwing in that qualifier).... But I tried reversing the direction of the belts of my two turntables...... On one turntable, I preferred the change... .......
498: General Asylum, RE: Mint-flavored teeth whitening strips. (nt (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-11-29, 10:08:50 (193.37.254.69)
It was endorsed by none other than King Crimson guitarist Robert .... Uh.... Never mind.......... .......
499: General Asylum, RE: I'll go one better.... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-11-29, 08:09:27 (193.37.254.69)
The death of the understanding of "fragility" in great music....... It seems like performers either get it or they don't..... There is no "middle ground" here. .......
500: General Asylum, I Need To Get One of Those 1950s DACs....... (0.00)
Posted by Todd Krieger on 2022-11-29, 08:05:16 (193.37.254.69)
[-; The name kind of reminds me of "Dynavector"..... The company that makes phono cartridges.......... .......
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