Paul McGowan Prefers Digital

Tango

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Sound recording for sound recording...youtube sound delivery; I much prefer the other one, sourced from the turntable.

This one here above (it don't matter to me the source); it sounds constricted, distorted, broken, old analgesic losing all its effect, painful, jittery, scary and neurotic. I'm just being honest on how I feel listening to it from that video.

Do you feel some verisimilitude to what I just experienced?

The piano sounds like coming from Yuja Wang's flying fingers. I like Yuja so even from youtube I very much enjoy.

Tang :D
 

NorthStar

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Tang, you're easy to please...I like that. You have a lovely family too, most important music.

Do you occasionally listen to digital, like in your car, on the run, @ home?

Spring cheers,
 

Audiophile Bill

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It is okay that you dont think what i said it is correct. I dont even know if it is correct haha. I listen MikeL video and then i listen your video through my iphone. I comment about what i hear. I also listen to Tang youtube through my iphone. Oh well, maybe it is best not to go down this path since you think you knew it all. :D

P/S: just a thought, maybe the piano sounds like in this clip??

That sounds very good.
 

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The full piece (from the exact same album they are listening to):

Thanks NorthStar for correcting me. Didnt think it was her. I thought Yuja or Argerich. Will try to find one on vinyl. I dont mind digital. I still have a JMF spinner with Acqua dac. I lost a lot of money on digital (actually on analog too :D). Imo the later I go back to digital the less financial loss I likely will experience.

Tang
 

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Aqua DACs are upgradeable. Not much to lose there, as the upgrades are generally worth the price of admission.
 

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The other piece Mr.Tang refer to is Lang Lang playing Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Paganini Rhapsody. 71divj8Ol-L._SX522_.jpg
 

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I really like these piano videos. Pianos can sound different...Bosendorfer,Steinway, and Baldwin. After listening so can digital and analog. Systems and recordings too.
Anyway I thought listening on a lazy Sunday afternoon I made this short video.
 

Bruce B

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Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in A Minor, Op. 43: Variation 22 - 23 - 24 - by Lang Lang (2005)

I actually played this piece for my senior recital at Shenandoah Conservatory of Music..... then it was aptly named "Soundtrack from Somewhere In Time"
 

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I really like these piano videos. Pianos can sound different...Bosendorfer,Steinway, and Baldwin. After listening so can digital and analog. Systems and recordings too.
Anyway I thought listening on a lazy Sunday afternoon I made this short video.

Oh boy your system is amazing.
 
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Getting Paul to agree to use tubes in their current amp/preamp designs took considerable persuasion by Bascom King and I think Arnie Nudell. I’ve never heard the results, but did have a DirectStream dac and sold it after a direct comparison with the comparably priced Lampi TRP dac, even before my tube rolling was settled. Not that the DS doesn’t have a lot going for it, especially with Ted Smith’s firmware updates, but difference between the two was not small. And the TRP was a couple of steps below Lampi’s best at the time.
 

Gregadd

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I am just saying ,how do you establish a preference for a captive audience?
 

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