gbmcleod
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| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? David, I agree. Anecdotally, last night, I had friend over who ONLY LISTENS to the Chicago Orchestra’s Scheherazade. ONLY. He replied, upon prompting, "I think it sounds pretty good." I said, "We’ll listen tomorrow morning and we went to sleep.We ... | |
| Musician vs. audiophile Czarivey, To answer your question of "name me one musician who likes Wilson speakers, Peter Poltun of the Vienna, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, violinist Wilfried Hedenborg and numerous others. Don't comment on things you know nothing about. Wils... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? David and dhal:I think it will be at least a week before I can discern how closely the Yggdrasil approaches the sound of live music. Mine arrived earlier than I expected: when I checked the tracking, it had already been routed to the local Fed Ex ... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil As long as you have a transport for the music, and can plug it into the Yggdrasil and then plug the Yggdrasil's RCA outputs into your Grace preamplifier's CD or Auxiliary input OR the balanced Yggdrasil outputs into your Grace balanced inputs, the... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? I remember reading Martin Colloms’ testing of the Jadis JA-200. Tested TERRIBLE on the bench, but magical in my system. I DO agree that maybe it helps those with technical knowledge, although I've seen people sneer about things they've never heard... | |
| New Yggdrasil - First (and second) Impressions I wouldn’t bet the farm on that observation, bc.I’ve had many components that did not display their true character until nearly a month. Nordost’s interconnects typically take several weeks to mature into their full sound. I well remember the Frey... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? It’s interesting that so much of the time, people look at the specifications. A spec willl tell you absolutely nothing about how something might sound. (Moffatt was one of the designers on the old Theta, which, in its day, was lauded at "THE digit... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? I suppose you’re overlooking that Atkinson NEVER played the Yggdrasil to hear what it actually sounded like.Solid state used to have ’perfect measurements,’ but it sounded crappy. I just listen: and I hear (and play) instruments a LOT, so I don’t ... | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? inna: my experience is that the electricity can be good, but if your components are vibrating, you will lose the musical lines in a symphony or anything else. I have tried nearly everyone’s isolation feet: Up until a few months ago, I used Nordost... | |
| Has anyone made the jump to $uper High end and were disappointed? I’ll have to come at this question in reverse.When I discovered High End equipment in 1985, I started out with an AR turntable and Spica speakers. Jumped from Spicas to Apogees. Jumped from Apogees to WATTs. In the space of 1985 to 1988, I jumped ... | |
| Graphene in fuses and cost I just went back to when I first became aware of fuses. There are more recent ones. And, post 2012, since there are several generations of Synergistic fuses, and I’ve owned every one of them and commented on them. But really, it’s irrelevant. I’m ... | |
| Graphene in fuses and cost Geoffkait - perhaps your search missed a few threads. Here’s one from Sept. 2011:"No more calls! We have a WINNER!!!! And I’ll just ask the guy who I sent them to to post on this thread after he’s had the fuse in about 24 hours. It should show som... | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... Jetter, that’s why - in most cases - one does not evaluate equipment immediately any more than one would assess a speaker system after 30 hours. I was trained to play music through a component for weeks, and if you have ever read The Absolute Soun... | |
| Graphene in fuses and cost You're welcome to read my many other posts on fuses (as I did yours - at great length). Tonight even. Done the fuse directionality thing. Pointed that out. Many times. NOT the point here.The only 'odd' thing is that the thread here is about costs.... | |
| Graphene in fuses and cost Apparently, I phrased that in a way it could be misunderstood, so let me attempt a "do-over."My second line was "small comfort, but it IS A GUARANTEE." I meant - that for those who are upset about the cost - the cost itself is bound to chafe, but ... |