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High end vintage vs contemporary DAC's - are sonic improvements real?
All you guys are convincing me that trying to improve on the SFD-2 MKIII - which is "free" cause I already have it - would be very expensive at best and maybe not result in meaningful improvements anyway.  That's a happy outcome cause it makes my ... 
High end vintage vs contemporary DAC's - are sonic improvements real?
Most of the vintage high end dacs used Multibit dac chips, today these are very expensive and hard to get, some dac manufacturers are even making discrete version Mulitbit for their costly dacs.If you want just to get the best from your 15,000 ... 
"Vintage" high end gear vs new and upgrade path?
Thanks to everybody for the input.  My sense from all of it is that there's a lot to be gained by upgrading the TT/arm/cartridge.  That's certainly not a shock.  That said, I'm less convinced about the digital chain.  Certainly there have been eno... 
"Vintage" high end gear vs new and upgrade path?
Thanks to all of you for your comments.  Seems like you're all kind of confirming my own feelings, or at least that we're all more or less of the same mind.  It's worth elaborating a little.....I don't actually listen to the analog all that much a... 
Vinyl LPs To CD
If your purpose is getting best quality archives, do it with a PC. Get a high-end sound card and record .wav files onto your HD at 24/96, then record CD-R's. It will take 2 or 3 CD-R's per LP, but sonics will be FAR better than any CD recorder at ...