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Good ol' Bob -- as always, ... :p !! Thanks for the kind words ... :b:b

Two bobs worth,
Frank

Nice to catch up, Jack. In the digital world that non recording related sound is harder to pin down, and it's good to see Richard (opus111) doing innovative experimenting in this area, trying to...

Sounds like some excellent sound coming through, Jack, congratulations! This "exposing" of the hitherto unrealised, positive, qualities in a recording seems to be a generic behaviour in audio when...

The CH Precision D1 player performed extremely well at the recent Sydney HiFi show, driving Technical Brain monoblocks; considering the room was very messily set up I was impressed with its...

Everything like this is very easy to understand, so long as one drops the fantasy of audio components being "scientific" black boxes: the layman's version of this concept is that something exists in...

Those big filter caps are expensive, and only form a very tiny part of the equation of what gives good sound: all the much smaller electrolytics elsewhere are far more important, they're much closer...

Without "pudding" anyone down :D:D, the answer to knowing whether a system is working correctly or not is pretty easy: if you have to ask yourself, switch on the left side of your brain, spin the...

Also, got at the library at the same time, Itzhak Perlman, A La Carte, 1995: violin bon bons. And, problems here too! Guess what, both the Bowie and Perlman done at Abbey Road Studios, and notes...

I'm impressed! This shows very fine design thinking: power supply as far as possible from the crucial DAC, and well shielded; an absolute minimum of cables running around; the D/A circuitry in a...

Very easily: consider if the input has very high frequency, inaudible noise riding on top of it, and the inbetween component does an excellent job of pretending to be a piece of wire, apart from the...

Actually, it's the other way round ...!! Most amplifiers sound less powerful than they should, considering the rated power of the units. Tim is one of the, seemingly rare, audio engineers who does...

Note the "killer" element of the darTZeel, an "optical" volume control mechanism, no nasty potentiometer, or mechanical switches in that key area. I suspect if Mike tried any preamp now, no matter...

Just tried a couple of new library CDs: this is a real lucky dip now for popular music because they've replaced a lot of the older, good material with new releases -- I can hear people shuddering...

You'd better not let Tim see this ... never hear the last of it ... ;):b

Bass "control" is only part of it: though having just heard a high end system with oodles of bass, giving a totally...

My suspicion on what was happening, is that interference was being transferred from the CD player to the power amp. Or vice versa. Through the connectors between the two: yes, this shouldn't happen,...

It can't help but degrade, unless it manages to compensate in key areas for deficiencies elsewhere. Rather than a car analogy, I'll use a trucking one, might appeal to people more! Load up a flatbed...

I will take it seriously, Tom, sorry about that, because commenting on it bears repeating over and over again. That disappearance into a black hole of digital high frequencies is a form of...

Since it's being talked about at the moment, the volume control is a good one to mention. As far as I'm concerned, if it's a typical potentiometer, no matter how many $100s of dollars it costs, then...

Bob, it's not smartness or anything like that, it's the inquiring mind. I'm certain that many thousands have heard exactly what I've heard happening, but they've passed on it: they've just taken it...

I realised 25 years ago that the typical, separate preamp only adds weaknesses to the system. The 2 extra sets of RCA connectors alone will do enough damage to cancel any gains: yes, it may sound...

Bob, you expressed it beautifully, that's what I'm after: and I do get it when the system's firing -- and all that's missing are the visuals. The massaging, enveloping, caressing do happen, but, and,...

Not really, Bob, that's the point! What I enjoy with music is the intensity, the texture of the sound washing over me, that's what I'm looking for. Normal hifi reproduction is just a caricature: it...

It's complicated, that was the fourth ruling! There's quite a subplot with this tragedy, demonstrating the strangeness of the human condition: to get some of the flavour of why there were so many...

Sometimes it's just good to get a little jolt of inspiration ...

There's a scene in the movie "American Graffiti" where the Fonz character gets ready for the drag race climax by going to the...

For me it started very close to the beginning of digital, 1986. A little story with that: I actually purchased the previous generation TOL Yamaha player, the CD2000 I think it was, and it was...