fred60
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| Best concert you've attended Yeah forgot one: Grateful Dead 11/5/77 Rochester Community War Memorial. General Admission. Drove 8 hours to the show without tickets, Got tix, then drove 8 hours back after the show, leaving a college classmate because he couldn't find us-- h... | |
| Looking To Upgrade to a new CD Transport @howardlee I have been going back and forth for years on what to do for SACD playback. Would like to upgrade from my Oppo 105D. Newer DAC's have to be better than the Oppo that was released 12 years ago. First considered Esoteric, then recently... | |
| Best concert you've attended Can’t pick the "best" but some memorable ones: --Grateful Dead Nassau Coliseum 9/8/73, I was 15 years old and my first concert. General admission, sat roughly 15 rows back on the floor. (Dave’s Picks #38) --Genesis doing the Lamb Lies Down on B... | |
| Favorite Beatles Song Obviously so many great songs, but 3 of my favorites and IMO overlooked: -- Rain -- Hey Bulldog -- Long, Long, Long | |
| Is it my streamer or does Audirvana sounds better? analougefan: I'm really interested in this thread because I'm probably going to buy the Garlubidor Divinity and was considering the Eversolo T8 as the streaming transport. Curious that you thought that the Audirvana was a better option. Is it t... | |
| SHARE YOUR SACDs THAT SOUND FANTASTIC!! All the Rolling Stones SACD's on ABKCO sound fantastic! Too bad they went to their own label, which all sound like crap. Beggars Banquet is probably the best sounding. But again, any ABKCO release on SACD sounds great. You can't go wrong. | |
| Recommend a sub for Kef R11 Meta If you have the space, I would also recommend 2 subs. I have 2 JL Audio e-110’s, and they blend great with my Raidho XT-2’s. I did buy them at least 5 years ago and the price is now up to $2,200 each. I think that they were around $1,700 each w... | |
| Goldenear….recent experience and lesson learned My Paradigm sub died after about a decade. They were willing to "fix" the problem but wanted to charge me about 70% of the original price of the sub! ($2,500 sub, they wanted to charge me $1,700+ to fix it). That’s why I’ve been warning folks h... | |
| Galion vs Luxman vs Advance Paris vs (anything else) @ctlesq -- the H400 is very well built, no plastic. It weighs 44 lbs. Not light at all. Even the remote is not plastic. But as I mentioned, I have the H390. It just effortlessly puts the music out there-- I have Raidho XT-2's and it gets the b... | |
| Galion vs Luxman vs Advance Paris vs (anything else) Hegel H400. You could probably get it for 6K. I have the H390 and love it. But have not compared it to Luxman or Galion or Advance Paris. Not sure why "the build is not what you want." | |
| Upgrade CD transport/player vs. Sacd transport/player @kjl1065 It's what they say-- that the Onix Zenith will pass along DSD, and as long as the DAC supports DSD, it will give you true DSD in its native format. At least that is the way I understand it. | |
| Upgrade CD transport/player vs. Sacd transport/player The Shanling Onix Zenith XST20 SACD transport DOES in fact decode DSD to any DAC via all of its outputs-- except the USB output. They say it right on their own marketing materials: SACD with True DSD Output Designed to unlock the full potential... | |
| Favorite Streamer/DAC combo under 3k? I'm going to pair the Eversolo T8 with either a Pontus 15th or a Garlubidor Divinity-- combined are around $4K, a little above your budget but worth considering IMO. | |
| My CD-player stopped working. Does it make sense to invest in a new CD-transport? Check out the Shanling Onix Zenith SACD transport. It's $2,400. Generally very positive reviews. The transport mechanism I'm not sure about, but it is a top-loader. Has i2s output as well as the more common digital interfaces, like Coax, etc. I'm ... | |
| A new dac? I would try the Pontus 15th. It's around $2K. Has gotten amazing reviews. There is also a new dac from a division of Denafrips-- the Garlubidor Divinity, which is a little less than 2K. Unlike the Pontus, it has a display screen and 2 IIS inputs, ... |