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Al, was nice enough to loan me the Amarra 4 (uln- over the weekend and top to bottom it clearly bests the sonic studio 302 (uln-2). IT was better to the degree that I now have to find a way to get one. From the moment it went in the system it was apparent, while the differences were there at Al's you really need to hear sources in your system to get a complete feel for them. I have rationalized the $6k purchase as not bad for a dac/phono pre and preamp.

Don Byas Anthropology, great record done in 1963 with a then 17 year old Niels Pedersen.

Canman welcome to Headcase!

Mods can you please change the year in the title thread as usual I am living in the past! Steve hope to see you there, yes it will be at an SFO area hotel

I really wish the Englander would have worked out but between the electricity, drunks wandering in to the rooms, limited parking it was a no go.

Not sure what hotel it is going to be held at yet but the date is firm and it will be held near SFO (between the towns of San MAteo and Burlingame most likely). Hope to see you there, we'll probably do something either after or the night before in San Francisco as well.

I use it as my home entertainment hub, it feeds my mediocre View 42 flat screen. I use it for movies and music as well as web video. Not the best picture quality and will not be as good as a blue ray picture but ok for the easy to please movie watcher. Since my rack is pretty far from the TV I just went to bluejeans cables and had a 25 foot hdmi to DVI cable made for the mac

Got mine last week, thanks Tom! Sent mine yesterday, just got back from three weeks of travel crazies.

somewhat lame in my opinion, great technician but lacks emotion/soul in his playing. I loved the guy ten years ago for his playing with others but he just is not passionate to me.

In Key West they should have dinner at PePe's great food

each time I have heard a well done idler set up I have been stunned at the "you are there" quality of the sound coming off the record. Couple and idler with a well designed horn set up and it is goose bump city

ByBBt far this is the series to subscribe to, extremely well selected, best quality covers and great sonics

Ditch the grado BS1000i if you can as duct taping up issues it has with an amp is absolutely the wrong way to go

All my carts sing to an extent

David, good to hear Bugsey is ok! Just got into Portland for a training session I am running. B-fast and pints at Horse Brass Pub then a pop over to 32 ohms (Ken Ball's) new retail store.

if you are referring to amarra well it will not run on a windows book so no need and 4 G is just fine btw on the apple mini or macbooks

so far I really like this cart very vivid and lifelike but just slightly crude sounds great on the Denon 59L

Deepak no clear winner yet except to say that the Sony ps-x555es mates well with every cart I have thrown at it while the denon is hit and miss. I am picking up a denon 103 fl this evening so well see.

the asus that I owned now with Nate was great as a music server for windows programs. I had mine set up with foobar and a plug in to bypass the kmixer. Not a machine that I would want to perform cpu intensive tasks but playing music is not a cpu intensive task by a log shot. Matched with the pico map/dac it was a nice transportable set up.

yes Zu is in Odgen Ut but their east coast marketing person in is Atlanta. The guy from Tn was an amp builder that Zu is working with. They sounded really good much better in the dedicated room though. Like other single driver speakers I have heard (IMHO) they excelled at small combo jazz and struggled with denser mixes. YMMV as Mike thought they did well with denser rock stuff in the dedicated room that I did not circle back around to. They have great tone and dynamics and play loud without issue as they were rocking at 98db peaks with averages of 95db for part of the session.

Gotta love it the hotel fire alarm just went off a 830 am just as I was headed out for breakfast. Those still sleeping it off will be pissed.

If you are going to Brother Tuckers and are staying at the Hyatt please be out front a 5pm

Bam! Just landed

depending on when you get in I would expect that we would be well on our way to the Back Room to see the band by 930 ish

dinner is in Pompano Beach a rental might be cheaper than a cab. The show is in Boca Raton and that would for sure be a $$$ cab ride.