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Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Best Vinyl Rig
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on: February 03, 2015, 06:44:40 am
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I didn't take his advice though (I didn't buy a 950 or a 927)... perhaps I should have?
Hi Mani, these EMT's are ultimate TT machines because everything is made inhouse and tuned for perfect interactions. (no resonances between the different components such as tonearm, cartridge, chassis, suspension, e-motor etc.) There are 950er on Ebay for < € 6000,00 sometimes and the Fabritius cards ( http://www.fabtech.de/en_own-products_f2.html) are mandatory for audiophiles. Joachim
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Best Vinyl Rig
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on: February 03, 2015, 05:47:21 am
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I've opted for a Thöress Phono Enhancer, which I will place an order for later this week. I'm then hoping the designer, Reinhard Thöress, will help me get the rest of my vinyl rig optimally set up.
Cheers, Mani.
Hi Mani, Great/nice picture of the speakers/TT. You are ordering the Phono Enhancer with 75Ohm BNC outlets for a Blaxius cable!? The sound with the BNC coax cable (pre amp to power amp) is great on my system. A relocation of the TT is due to (air) resonances to a place near your listening position to be preferred. The tonearm is very sensitive to resonances. Fortunately I had the chance to locate the TT in an adjacent room, but now the 10m BNC coax cable is crossing our living room and I have to repack the cable when my wife is not working always. Joachim
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Best Vinyl Rig
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on: February 02, 2015, 08:23:17 pm
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Hi,
since a longer time I was curious to compare the SQ between my analogue chain with the “digital” SQ . My turntable was not connected to the speakers since 2011, because the location of the EMT 950 is 10 m away from the power amp. So I ordered a pair of 10m 50Ohm “Aircom plus” coax cables with BNC connectors and BNC/RCA adapters 4 weeks ago and off it goes with records I have on vinyl’s and CD’s (some recordings from the same master band). The analogue chain/route is an EMT 950 turntable with a TSD 15 cartridge, Valhalla XLR/RCA cable from the EMT to a Burmester 877 MkII preamp and continuing from there with the “Aircom plus” cable to the power amp (same connection as used with the NOS1a).
This analogue SQ is incredible, at least on par with the “digital chain”. What I hear in my room is, the SQ of the analogue chain is slightly better than ...... , and the SQ remembers me to the “digital” sound with the YFS USB Reference cable. It’s difficult to explain, to find the right explanation/words, in comparison to the “analogue SQ” the 1$ USB cable creates noise/distortion (in my opinion).
The analogue SQ in the “toilet” is great, no big difference to SQ of the digital chain.
This topic is “Best Vinyl Rig” and To counteract Peter's reservation against LP's the “turntable vendors” out there should compare their "expensive" products with “real turntables” sometimes. Joachim
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Playback Tweaks and Source related subjects / Re: Confirmed : PC Damping
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on: January 08, 2015, 07:26:23 pm
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Being at this stage of reasoning, I now tend to believe more in the PC influencing the DAC than the PC influencing itself for SQ reasons. So what would be more logical or easy to believe ? a. The vibrations of the PC influencing the normal audio clock that causing additinal jitter; b. The vibrations of the PC influencing its own clock that causing jitter (which would be true) to further reason out that it can influence sound.
Now I hope this expands to something valuable some time. Peter
Hi, Brians improvised layout is a good starting point for tests. http://www.phasure.com/index.php?topic=3062.msg33261#msg33261No rotating parts (inducing vibrations) are inside the cabinet. Joachim P.S. The best location for an AUDIO PC + DAC is "always" outside of the listening room (and the other gear too, if possible). It would be interesting to hear/evaluate the differences in SQ between Michaels fanless PC and the XXH PC.
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