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Haha, dillhole!

I suspect this can be arranged... You know how people talk about albums that are "tough to get into"? I rarely experience said phenomena... however, WB's first, _11 Tracks of Whack_, took *years* of repeated attempts to finally really click for me. His recent effort, _Curcus Money_, is mostly good but has a couple of relative duds.... FANTASTIC sound.

Steve Nugent is a bit of a nutter but GR's async usb thing makes a ton of sense for DACs attached directly to a computer via USB... whether you like whatever else is in the DAC after the receiving stuff is another story I haven't heard the Ayre QB-9 thing but am willing to bet it is not too shabby...sweet interface plus neato modern digital filter...

Yup... willing to bet it has nice stuff inside - good clock, proper output impedance... ...but it's all fucked into a cocked hat going out RCA. Sorry. Oh well, easily solved by the savant warranty-voider! Plenty of DACs have shitty S/PDIF receiving circuitry and no dual PLLs, etc... as well

You're using a North Star DAC right? Look for something that can do I2S... I recall reading that the ESI Juli@ could be very easily modded to output I2S... --RME HDSPe AIO user

whatever for analog but for S/PDIF, BNC is the *only* termination which actually meets the design spec of the interface.......

fabulously unlikely that this is superior. this makes sense in the Wavelength/Ayre DACs, but going back to jittery S/PDIF (and not using BNC forchrissakes) is a waste......

Julian Vereker believed balanced operation to be the work of Satan.

should have bnc output for s/pdif really... ...I^2S would be nice as well

One of the very first all digital recordings... in fact I think the only one that preceded it was Ry Cooder's _Get Rhythm_. I've always felt my CD copy sounds... uh, interesting but weird. Killer performances from top session cats on this one... some pretty good tunes as well. Fagen's best solo, I feel... also I prefer this to the last two SD albums... how's that MFSL rip? (edit: i fuggin' love WB's two solo outings)

yipes. yeah i have been scouring for places to buy this shit and it all looks super sketchy..... but holy cow, all the kadomatsu and yamashita stuff i've heard so far is awesome!

This is fuckin' nuts, where the hell do I buy this? edit: shit just found this blog.......some nutty Made in Japan stuff!!!!! edit2: oooooooooo Marcus Miller doing some TASTY shit on Kadomatsu's "Hatsu Koi"

Yup... like I said I prefer the SF to the D1 on speakers, and the D1 to the SF on headphones...

seen a few shoops in your time eh?

Sad.....you should send a set of the bigguns my way to be kept warm.......

Trying my Stax/transfo boxes off a B&K ST-140 power amp this morning in my desk rig, instead of the Pass X250.5 in the big rig. Yipes. No wonder people don't like transfo boxes. Every configuration (ESC-1001, SRD-7/Pro, SRD-7, SR-X/Mk.III, SR-X/Mk.III Pro, SR-5NB, SR-404, Gamma Pros) sucks the fucking bozak. Yuck. And I actually like how this amp sounds with my Totem Forest speakers in my bedroom system.......... On another note, how are things with those Lundahls, Birgir?

no. i like it deep fast and tight. and you can read whatever you like into that. "PRaT" is king. (note to self: check out naim dac when it lands at local dealer...) if you need fat bloaty bass in your playback to make instruments sound "moar real", then the recording isn't good enough IMO...... Would require a visit back to Pass to change a few components Stop that... it's on HF now but the Casino deal still applies........ i've been listening to this thing unbalanced at my desk two days now and am seriously enjoying it but it's nuts for me to have so much tied up in sources right now............

M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us (2005)

wow i had only seen like, three of these! hilarious

I hate DACing off. So this morning I decided I'd throw the D1 into my desktop rig, and I proceeded to fall back in love with it as it warmed up... So I figured I'd warm up the SFD-2 Mk.III and swap it in, and I'd remember why the D1 is the DAC I'm selling, since it was clearly preferred in the Big Rig with either the Maggie MG-IIIas, or ESC-1001--->SR-X Mk.III/Pro. Fuck. D1 smokes the SF running unbalanced into a Grate-oh RA1/RS1 rig. Points for the SF: -headstage slightly smaller but sense of "size" or "air" around instruments considerably superior... can hear the walls of the room... how far a mic is away from an instrument... that kind of shit, this is why I loved it on the Maggies... -absolute resolution is a couple notches better. stuff that's really buried in the mix is just so obviously there... another thing i loved about it in the big rig however... -bass hugely inferior. slow, fat, bloaty, doesn't extend as deep, midbass boomy in comparison to D1. -PRaT gone compared to D1... i have been air-instrumenting and totally into it all morning with the D1. immediately gone with the SF. -while the SF sounds more "laid back" overall, somehow it isn't as smooth/clean sounding as the D1... i.e. it's super fun to crank the volume with the D1 and is never painful, while the SF becomes brutal to listen to above medium volume. ah system matching... of course, the natural solution is to spend the money i get selling the D1 modding the SF! otoh i am not using the companion D2D-1 at the moment and may have to go grab it from the big rig to see if it improves things for the SF...

Shifting gears significantly.... Walter Becker - Circus Money (2008) One of the best sounding commercially released redbook CDs I've heard... not too far off the "perfection" mark really.

Aphex Twin - Drukqs (2001)

Justice - Cross (2007)