What's the most recent piece of audio equipment you have purchased and when?

[LL21]

An Oppo BDP95, Morrow Audio MA3 balanced cables, PS Audio AC12 powercable and HiFi Tunning fuses (3).

Hi. Nice player. Have you compared to Oppo 83 by any chance?

In fact, is anyone aware if the Oppo 95 is any better as a transport? I use a DAC, so was just curious. Thanks.

 

[LL21]

Lloyd, I am hoping that the much smaller REL will be a lot easier to get right with the GH's. The GH's are so fast and clean that it is no surprise to me that your DD-18 was brutally difficult to blend with them. I sometimes wonder if the choice of sub can impact the way a listener ultimately feels about his mains. How many of us have ditched the mains believing that they were an issue, when in fact the sub/mains synergy was the problem.

Hi DaveyF...actually, i had trouble blending my old Velodyne (era 1993) with the Gs. The Velodyne DD18 was in fact much, much easier. I agree with you that the speed of the GHs are a challenge, and that the REL might well be able to keep up. No doubt you will master this, but if for whatever reason you have any questions, i am happy to share whatever experiences i had in blending the 2. Good luck!!! i am confident it will be fantastic!

 

[LL21]

Leben CS 600.

Nice one...i wish i had access to hear Leben. only heard good things about it. Have you ever compared with Shindo? I have heard Shindo and enjoyed it very much.

 

[flez007]

Nagra T deck!

 

[LL21]

Congrats!!!

 

[audioguy]

Now this is where it gets interesting. The subs were working, as in that you could hear them, it wasn't that you could see the cones moving or feel with your fingers the vibration of the enclosure or anything else, correct?

Not correct. I put my fingers on the cones (and removed the grill covers)to try to get a sense of how much they were moving. The cones were moving and I was hearing sound. My subs use dual opposed drivers. There is no sub vibration. You can put a glass of water on the top and it will not move.

If so, how do you know that the sound you were hearing was not totally distortion, as in harmonics above 40Hz, no fundamental at all was being detected by your ears? If you put a mic on the sound in the room and recorded that supposed 40Hz and below sound you would get a big shock, with a huge spray of frequencies well above 40Hz happening.

With 144db/octave, there is no way I was hearing harmonics (or anything else) above 40hz. This slope is basically a straight vertical line which means that at 60hz (a half an octave up) the signal was down 72db!!!!! Can't speak for you but I can't hear that well.

Woofers are mega distortion generators, dead easy to get 10% and above distortion no matter how expensive they are. So what you are getting with different subwoofer arrangements is nicely customised, bass tonal enhancement, courtesy of tube like distortion ...

I suggest you try my experiment. It was NOT distortion and it was not higher end harmonics. You may certainly want to believe what you believe, but if you do what I did, I'm reasonably comfortable that you will have to come to the same conclusion.
Frank[/QUOTE]

 

[fas42]

With 144db/octave, there is no way I was hearing harmonics (or anything else) above 40hz. This slope is basically a straight vertical line which means that at 60hz (a half an octave up) the signal was down 72db!!!!! Can't speak for you but I can't hear that well.

I'm not talking about harmonics being fed to the subwoofer; I'm sure the signal there is extremely clean. No, the subwoofer drivers themselves produce lots of harmonics in their attempts to physically move lots of air, at the surface of the cones. Unless you spend lots and lots of money, subwoofer drivers themselves can't help but have high levels of distortion, the physics of getting electromagnetic mechanisms to couple cleanly with diaphragms to shift large volumes of air is a long way from being a trivial thing to do. Again, put a mic on the room, you'll be surprised at what's there ...

Frank

 

[flez007]

Hi. Nice player. Have you compared to Oppo 83 by any chance?

In fact, is anyone aware if the Oppo 95 is any better as a transport? I use a DAC, so was just curious. Thanks.

Lloyd - I have a modified NuForce Oppo 95 and using it as a transport, it is a "decent" transport, but the Accuphase transport is just another league in comparison.

 

[hvbias]

Getting back into some headphone listening (late night) now that I have a bit more free time. So an Eddie Current Balancing Act DHT headphone amp/preamp. http://www.eddiecurrent.com/Balancing_Act.html

Ordered last week.

 

[A.wayne]

Started the year out with a Dynavector cartridge purchase, next inline will be a new DAC and 2 custom built monoblocs to drive the amp slayer........

 

[LL21]

Lloyd - I have a modified NuForce Oppo 95 and using it as a transport, it is a "decent" transport, but the Accuphase transport is just another league in comparison.

Thanks! I could believe it.

 

[JackD201]

Transfiguration Proteus, a few weeks ago. Still unmounted. I've been too busy.

 

[daytona600]

$600 AK100 astell & kern super ipod thingee 24/192 on the move , sheer bliss
add vertere 3.5mm headphone to rca adaptors makes a superb cd transport/dac

 

[Johnny Vinyl]

I didn't know this thread existed!:b

I've made lots of changes this year and am no longer living almost exclusively in a vintage world, or a truly humble one for that matter. I've stepped up my game!

McIntosh MC122 Power Amp
Ortofon 2M Black MM Cartridge
Genesis G7.1f loudspeakers

 

[treitz3]

The last purchase I made was a Musical Fidelity V-DAC strictly for the TV/Directv. Still debating whether it was worth it or not.....but one can only expect a certain type of signal coming digital over the air. Still, an improvement. Slight at that but still an improvement nonetheless. I had always wondered what DAC could do for the end result in this situation. Now I know.

Tom

 

[LL21]

I didn't know this thread existed!:b

I've made lots of changes this year and am no longer living almost exclusively in a vintage world, or a truly humble one for that matter. I've stepped up my game!

McIntosh MC122 Power Amp
Ortofon 2M Black MM Cartridge
Genesis G7.1f loudspeakers

Whoa! That's some serious firepower! Good stuff! Look forward to reading about your impressions and how you came to decide on the equipment! Big congrats!

 

[JackD201]

Good News: The new TT is scheduled to ship out on my Birthday no less

Bad News: The filter platform will arrive a whole two weeks later

Good News: My current TT is still a gem so the weeks of waiting will have the same musical enjoyment I've been getting for a few years now.

 

[MylesBAstor]

Good News: The new TT is scheduled to ship out on my Birthday no less

Bad News: The filter platform will arrive a whole two weeks later

Good News: My current TT is still a gem so the weeks of waiting will have the same musical enjoyment I've been getting for a few years now.

Awesome. How many arms are you going to mount?

 

[JackD201]

Just one for now Myles. My old Phantom II. There's a backlog for Supremes and Elites but I've already ordered the latter from the local distributor. That might take a few months.

 

[MylesBAstor]

Just one for now Myles. My old Phantom II. There's a backlog for Supremes and Elites but I've already ordered the latter from the local distributor. That might take a few months.

If you're lucky