As previously discussed, getting some really great playback in my new room.
A couple of upgrade paths had been milling in my mind, one being a once and final tt move, possibly to SME 30/2. Another with my new found respect for digital, being SGM server w T&A Dac8 or Aqua Formula DAC.
One gives me an instant major upstick in SQ on my 2k lps, one gives me those lps in digital at cutting edge SQ and a whole library of classical, jazz and new music to come.
My reservations to go down these routes are that I have high hopes for tt being reinstalled next wk, having been so happy with it for the last few years, and my current cdp being so compelling/my antipathy to streaming.
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I was perusing eBay recently, and there’s a whole world of vinyl first pressings, Japanese pressings (of which I own a fair number), and these promise improved sound quality to some of the 80s standard quality reissues pressings I currently own.
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Hence here is another way to burn cash, in effect a third upgrade path, ie replace my fave lps on superior vinyl, for the same sorts of sums current audiophile pressings are asking, £30-60, occasionally £120+.
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So, save the money from replacing my current vinyl, and get that SME to get an instant upstick on whole collection at once, or give in to exemplary digital in 2017 and go SGM server option.
Or fetishise even more rebuying 1000+ of my most fave vinyl for ones that were released at the time or given the Japanese pressings upstick.
A couple of upgrade paths had been milling in my mind, one being a once and final tt move, possibly to SME 30/2. Another with my new found respect for digital, being SGM server w T&A Dac8 or Aqua Formula DAC.
One gives me an instant major upstick in SQ on my 2k lps, one gives me those lps in digital at cutting edge SQ and a whole library of classical, jazz and new music to come.
My reservations to go down these routes are that I have high hopes for tt being reinstalled next wk, having been so happy with it for the last few years, and my current cdp being so compelling/my antipathy to streaming.
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I was perusing eBay recently, and there’s a whole world of vinyl first pressings, Japanese pressings (of which I own a fair number), and these promise improved sound quality to some of the 80s standard quality reissues pressings I currently own.
—
Hence here is another way to burn cash, in effect a third upgrade path, ie replace my fave lps on superior vinyl, for the same sorts of sums current audiophile pressings are asking, £30-60, occasionally £120+.
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So, save the money from replacing my current vinyl, and get that SME to get an instant upstick on whole collection at once, or give in to exemplary digital in 2017 and go SGM server option.
Or fetishise even more rebuying 1000+ of my most fave vinyl for ones that were released at the time or given the Japanese pressings upstick.
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