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on: January 13, 2011, 08:08:07 pm
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Well John, thanks!!!
The attenuator arrived today, really quick. It's 15 dB. And now for the sound, it is totally not what I expected! Although I started playing albums I did not hear for a long time and can not set myself to much AB-ing yet it is clear from the start. The sound is so different that it's hard to describe what the real difference is. For the moment it's more dynamic and loud, especially transient wake you up/ gets you excited/ grabs your attention. Now I'm not listening to digital anymore but just electronics. And the weird mix of Led Zep 2, reminds me of Led Zep 3 on vinyl. No more of that strangeness of digital. Well maybe more later. A must have for every hiFace-owner!
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Your thoughts about the Sound Quality / Re: Challenging hiend cd player/transport result
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on: January 11, 2011, 02:20:43 pm
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Well, I hope I can make this step into the new times soon too!
Talking about photography, I've been scanning my parents 40 years old holyday colour slides lately and am very surprised at how good they look with some good scanningsoftware. Much better than was possible 40 year's ago. Now I have a lot of respect for the Agfa and Kodak engineers that were able to make so nice looking pictures, really artistic, although not as close to reality, but a littlebit like a painting. Some Kadachrome lovers around here maybe?
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on: January 11, 2011, 01:20:10 pm
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@ Klinnilk, I call this Stereotypes in Stereoland. Distortion and resonances in speakers are a lot of times stronger than those in good vinyl recordplayers. Nobody complaining about that? Even on not to expensive speakers you can clearly hear the effect people here are talking about. The funny thing is XXHE is so much better then digital replay some years ago and to a lot of people getting closer to the analogue sound. Still I enjoy analogue better but with a mixed mood since digital has some strong points too. At Peter's demonstration it was easy to hear that the higher sampling rates sounded closer to what I like from vinyl. The naturalness and the true colours and timing of the sound. In part it reminds me of the difference of analog and digital photography which is (or will be?) won by the latter..
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Phasure NOS1 DAC / Re: Phasure NOS1 DAC (1 Hour) listening Experience
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on: December 19, 2010, 01:33:14 am
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C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S to both Peter and Gerard! Happy Listening!
From me too! And happy Christmas too, with a lot of happy listening! Nice to share your experience! , but of course you have to go back to Peter and make some pictures of this immortal moment in the history of music reproduction!
Hope to be able to order this DAC too soon!
Gerard(A)
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