Yes you're right, the noise isn't alway there but BE PATIENT IT WILL COME and it's normal where there is friction there is noise, that's FACT.
So do skips and dropouts in CDs.
Yes you're right, the noise isn't alway there but BE PATIENT IT WILL COME and it's normal where there is friction there is noise, that's FACT.
So do skips and dropouts in CDs.
Yes you're right once every 200 cd,s MAYBE but with vinyl it's every album.
Wow, I didn't know this existed.Not with an FMA phono stage ..... .crack and pop a thing off the past ...
People who hate vinyl hate vinyl. There is no convincing them of how good it sounds. For those that love RB CD, they have to stick with perfectly inferior sound forever because they have thrown the baby out with the bath water. If you love the digits, DSD is the bomb in the digital world. RB CD, not so much. If RB CD is the best you have to listen to, my condolences as RB CD is at the bottom of my personal audio source food chain.
Wow, I didn't know this existed.
Have you seen this video?
FM 223
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0-AW6lZLcuA
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First found here:
FM Acoustics FM 223 Phono Stage
http://www.ultrahighendreview.com/fm-acoustics-fm-223-phono-stage/
It is interesting that you raise the question of RB CD. Are you referring to normal or upsampled playback? I will tell you it was a very different story when I heard redbook CD upsampled on the Vivaldi system. Sounded 1000X better than any of the high-rez digital material they were playing on the system.
People who hate vinyl hate vinyl. There is no convincing them of how good it sounds. For those that love RB CD, they have to stick with perfectly inferior sound forever because they have thrown the baby out with the bath water. If you love the digits, DSD is the bomb in the digital world. RB CD, not so much. If RB CD is the best you have to listen to, my condolences as RB CD is at the bottom of my personal audio source food chain.
I will tell you it was a very different story when I heard redbook CD upsampled on the Vivaldi system. Sounded 1000X better than any of the high-rez digital material they were playing on the system.
The problem is in the digital world, there are not nearly the choices in DSD, or hi-res as compared with RBCD. So those of us who are digital only (mainly to be able to concentrate efforts and funds to optimize the quality of that one source)...are really RBCD if you are going to to have a big music collection.
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I'll take a shot at it...
Many who favor digital are almost apologetic about it (not you Mr Acoustat ) it shouldn't be so, it is a preference a subjective one. You like or you don't. Others prefer LP and hat is their prerogative. I no longer do. I believe early CD were abominations... I also do believe that present day digital systems are at a level that satisfy me and to me they are different but as good or better sounding as the best LP I have heard on the TTs I have heard ... I have heard a few highly-acclaimed TTs lately. I haven't heard enough tapes to make a determination nor DSD in which I do not truly believe I must say ...
Now let's go back to the best speaker a person has owned.
Sounds like the worst of both worlds to me - playing back RB CD upsampled through an S-D converter....
Interesting as i find upsampling the worst way to go ...
(...) I also do believe that present day digital systems are at a level that satisfy me and to me they are different but as good or better sounding as the best LP I have heard on the TTs I have heard ... I have heard a few highly-acclaimed TTs lately. I haven't heard enough tapes to make a determination nor DSD in which I do not truly believe I must say ...
Now let's go back to the best speaker a person has owned.
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First: that Gold B&O is a joke? Right? Is it a real product? I know that now you can find some B&O in gold finish (not the real metal) or other color for that matter
Second: Don't go too fast dismissing anything B&O their top of the line speaker the Beolab 5 (more of an integrated everything, it is a DAC , amp and active speaker)will give many High End system with speakers in the same price range a run for the money, a serious challenge ... B&O conduct serious research and the results have landed in more than one High End product ...
Curiously, I found that the speaker ranking also depends on the format (vinyl, CD, music server) you are using. Can I ask you what you mean unambiguously by present day digital systems in your sentence? CD, HiRez, 16/41 in music servers, DSD, DSDx2 - which are are you aiming in your comparison?