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Post by gazjam on Oct 22, 2015 10:03:11 GMT
Martin,
What do you think of the MS Audio rca's and the KLE's?
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Post by MartinT on Oct 22, 2015 10:09:22 GMT
Sorry Gaz, I don't think I've ever used them. For me, the WBTs (0110Ag) are the best of the ones I've tried and I've had all my Yannis cables made with them.
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Post by gazjam on Oct 22, 2015 11:50:25 GMT
Cool, cheers Martin.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2015 14:52:05 GMT
I feel the single point earth contact RCA plugs produce a more fixed image with greater leading edge than most of the traditional earthing RCA plugs, though they do seem to lack stage width and overall detail. However there are of-course exceptions.
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Post by MartinT on Nov 9, 2015 19:42:12 GMT
Updated system photo as of tonight.  |
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 10, 2015 13:05:41 GMT
Get some black kit in there - will make all the difference !  |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 10, 2015 17:59:18 GMT
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Post by brian2957 on Nov 10, 2015 18:15:02 GMT
Looks pretty good to me . If you don't want it I'll have it Martin . I'll even hire a big van and come down and pick it up |
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Post by alaska on Nov 11, 2015 19:16:53 GMT
Out of interest what would be your usage split be between music vs film/tv ? Thanks
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Post by MartinT on Nov 11, 2015 20:04:50 GMT
Hi alaska
I only watch about three dramas and a film per week. The split is probably something like 80:20 in favour of music.
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Post by speedysteve on Nov 11, 2015 20:51:46 GMT
Get some black kit in there - will make all the difference ! Yes, blacks will be blacker! Windows may open  |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 11, 2015 21:17:11 GMT
When I get into work in the mornings I open the window and then I open Windows...
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Post by MartinT on Nov 17, 2015 17:48:56 GMT
I love the sound of the Beresford DAC after having performed Stan's Venom-3 mods. Other than that, as all the new kit has settled down, I profess to being exceedingly happy with my system. It just makes compelling music, pure and simple. I'm just going to focus on building my music collection for a while.
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Post by ChrisB on Nov 17, 2015 17:56:06 GMT
Good place to be Martin!
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Post by brian2957 on Nov 17, 2015 19:51:54 GMT
Well done Martin , and thanks for sharing your experience with us |
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 18, 2015 9:41:37 GMT
He's damaged my wallet more than once ! |
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Post by MartinT on Nov 25, 2015 16:30:02 GMT
I've had a dawning realisation: I don't care about analogue versus digital any more; I don't worry about vinyl versus CD versus SACD versus DVD-A media; I'm not bothered by AAD versus DDD production; and I couldn't care less about old versus new material. Classical label idiosyncrasies are almost irrelevant now. I know this to be true through extended listening and the realisation that I have so much more insight into the music that hi-fi concepts just aren't entering my thoughts. Today, on my day off, I pulled Sheryl Crow's Tuesday Night Music Club, a disc I thought I knew well, onto the Ayre. It was like listening to a different performance and, try as I might, I kept returning to the songs and what she must be thinking while performing them, did she even suspect that she would make the big time? I've been doing it again and again, falling into the performances and forgetting about everything else. All manner of music and media are having the same effect on me time and time again. It has all coalesced into this simple thought:
There are now only good performances and bad performances.
Forgive me if you're tempted to say it's obvious, "I knew that" or that I must have read it somewhere, because this is MY learning process and MY realisation and I had to get there all on my own after all these years of building and fine tuning my system. It's taken me a long time and a bloody good system to make the jump away from considerations of what sounds best to just what the performances are like. It's not as if I didn't listen to the performances in the past, it's more like the system has simply stepped aside for me now. Yes, the technology is there doing its stuff but it has become so good that I've finally arrived at a place where virtually everything I have music-wise is giving me 95% or more of what can be had from it. Even a poor recording of a great performance is fine and the sound soon stops bothering me. Call it a better window, an enabler or whatever you like, it's a great place to be.
It's a dizzying realisation and I'm having such fun listening to so much more material, some of which I haven't played in many years.
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 25, 2015 18:24:43 GMT
A day off !
Whatever next ?
I have a similar observation which may or may not agree
There are good albums and there are bad ones.
Potential point of disagreement is the performance could be great but the engineer or producer messed it up
I'll have to try that Kokomo album again...
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Post by John on Nov 25, 2015 18:36:43 GMT
Its a great place to be simply enjoying music. I kind of see it as one of the main goals of any system
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Post by Barrington on Nov 25, 2015 18:37:08 GMT
Updated system photo as of tonight. Thats a fabulous set up Martin , what are those drums in the corners ? (sorry I haven't got round to reading 31 pages , just looked at the photos ) |
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