@speedthrills yeah with an $800 phono stage you ain’t gonna get too far in sound quality. Just like you wouldn’t with an $800 DAC.
i have a good digital setup. Playing a properly mastered recording sounds great on streaming. And it does so on vinyl as well. Playing remastered garbage from streaming services is 🤮
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@audphile1. Thankfully tastes vary otherwise it would be a very boring world. The Acoustic Sounds Getz / Gilberto is fantastic Sonics |
@tomic601 correcto mundo! |
Even though I have an excellent vinyl set-up, I opted for the SACD release of “Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra” being that I have an excellent SACD machine and didn’t want to spend the extra $100. The SACD release sounds outstanding and I couldn’t imagine a 1949-50 recording sounding better! Please let us all know how the Impex one-step all-analog version sounds and if I may be missing anything! |
I have three Impex pressings. Two are of Jascha Heifetz and one is of Frank Sinatra. They're all mono and sound very good to me. The Heifetz Beethoven Sonatas can sound slightly bright in spots but that could be my cartridge also. So whether they're all consistent, probably not. I compared the Beethoven Heifetz to the original RCA mono and believe the Impex remaster to be considerably better. It was apparent that RCA used filtering that was omitted in the Impex process. I also have vinyl from Analogphonic and Speakers Corner and find them all to be pretty similar. |
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