To all my Audiophile friends...a BIG shout out!

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treitz3
treitz3 Posts: 20,358
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Just a shout out to all my audiophile friends out there on Club Polk. Social distancing was the "in" thing for us, long before today's current trend....unless there was an LP sale. We have been ahead of the curve for decades.

Rock on with yo' bad selves. We have this thing mastered...no pun intended.

Tom
~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 52,406
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    Back at ya...
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  • treitz3
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    F1nut wrote: »
    Back at ya...
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    Jesse, after all of these years of seemingly everyone giving you grief about your thoughts....well, "ex" thoughts on vinyl? I still find it amazing that you are back to your roots.

    I realize it took your Dad to get you back but after all of those years....

    Glad to see you back in the fold. Snaps, cracks, pops and all. Still never thought I would see the day. Now it looks like you have a better LP rig than I do! (Embarrassing, to say the least).

    I hope all is well with you and yours. Rock on bro' and as Bob Carver always says? Enjoy the music.

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • F1nut
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    Tom, I've found that the combination of quality records, a RCM, a nice phono pre, a decent table and a nice cartridge helps keep the inherent issues of vinyl to a bare minimum. My earlier days of vinyl were not like this.
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  • Nightfall
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    I just have a simple manual record cleaner (I forget the name but it's a popular inexpensive choice), Yamaha linear tracker (PX-3) and Denon DL-110 and my experience has been amazing. The only point is it doesn't take mega bucks to have a good crackle snap pop free vinyl experience if you're on the fence about it. And don't buy beat to sh records.
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    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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  • treitz3
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    Damn. Better than battery powered and you didn't like it?

    'Nuff said. Just glad to see that you have evolved. With that said...

    Have you evolved enough to bring it into the main rig? I mean, all you have to do is play it DS with the pre and drill up to get the IC's up to....

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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    LOL. SACD is great but....

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • treitz3
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    The best way to enjoy digital music reproduction is to never listen to good analogue reproduction

    Can you guess who I got that quote from?

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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    SACD is still great, played a few tonight.
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  • F1nut
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    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    F1nut wrote: »
    Tom, I've found that the combination of quality records, a RCM, a nice phono pre, a decent table and a nice cartridge helps keep the inherent issues of vinyl to a bare minimum. My earlier days of vinyl were not like this.

    Now all you need is a SugarCube. ;)

    Maybe if they get all the bugs worked out.
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  • Nightfall
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    What the heck is Sugar Cube?
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    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

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    treitz3 wrote: »
    The best way to enjoy digital music reproduction is to never listen to good analogue reproduction

    Can you guess who I got that quote from?

    Tom

    That would be a quote borrowed from one Mr. Ken Swauger.
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  • Nightfall
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    Too expensive for me but interesting. How are they removing specific sounds from the audio signal without affecting the rest of the audio around it?
    afterburnt wrote: »
    They didn't speak a word of English, they were from South Carolina.

    Village Idiot of Club Polk
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  • F1nut
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    Nightfall wrote: »
    Too expensive for me but interesting. How are they removing specific sounds from the audio signal without affecting the rest of the audio around it?

    Magic
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  • motorstereo
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    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    F1nut wrote: »
    SACD is still great, played a few tonight.

    My SACD is still stuck in Connecticut waiting of their governor to let people go back to work.

    It must be sitting at what the state considers a non essential business. This might be a while.
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    Thanks Tom :smile:

    Back at ya!
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  • mhardy6647
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    @treitz3: right back atcha

    Heck, this 'audiophile fiend friend' has been taking baby steps towards streaming music at the ol' casa.

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    I did subsequently click the 'high quality' link :pensive:

    Special shout-out to @BlueFox who enabled this, quite a while back, with his amazing Bryston DAC-o-rama Karma! :)

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    Remember:
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    Now is the time to check in regularly on your extrovert friends and neighbors!

    They have NO IDEA how this works.


    B)

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  • [Deleted User]
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    Thank you, same to you as well. I've run into a wiggle of warped records (I suspect they weren't stored properly during a recent move), so I'm using my vinyl flattener. But lots of listening all the same.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 35,562
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    hmm... or, perhaps, a wave of warped records? B)

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    Some being worse than others, of course.

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  • F1nut
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    Ouch!
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  • Mike Reeter
    Mike Reeter Posts: 4,315
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    Back at you Tom

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    Probably unlike most here, my Seat Time has been reduced during this Crisis. My Wife and our Son are both working from home ALL DAY LONG :#

    I respect their need for a quiet work environment, but I'll be glad when this Virus finally goes Dormant ;)
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  • treitz3
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    Actually Mike, I am in the same boat. The wife and son are home all day now and I can't crank it up all day long anymore. It's a bummer on that aspect but it's great to have the family home all the time.

    Case in point....we just got back from a bike ride that we decided to do on a whim. I'm lovin' it!

    Tom
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • Mike Reeter
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    treitz3 wrote: »
    Actually Mike, I am in the same boat. The wife and son are home all day now and I can't crank it up all day long anymore. It's a bummer on that aspect but it's great to have the family home all the time.

    Case in point....we just got back from a bike ride that we decided to do on a whim. I'm lovin' it!

    Tom

    Oh, don't get me wrong. I'm truly enjoying our Son being here as he lives in another City. It's calming to know that he's O.K.

    I certainly don't mind sharing my time with them both, I was just trying to be a little humorous this morning ;) in light of this whole situation we are all in.

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