Funny noises about LP12's coming from the Private ads section

the arcam i have has the ring dac ,and i will say one thing it is very smooth sounding, not at all harsh in any way. when i run optical to the ax10i and use the amps dac it sounds nasty.

 

you are right my friend i have been in that boat many many times. you buy something expensive, get it home and are truely gutted.

 

i think backhanders have something to do with it i think.

 

I only swear by vinyl!

 

i tried some of the cyrus gear when i lived in england(borrowed from audio-t) and i was so dissapointed with it, if i had bought it i think i would have cried

 

here here and to me there is no better sound to be had at all

 

and so lovely to look at when it is playing, and brings a big smile to my face everytime i listen, but cd is played more than my vinyl, i only get that out when i want to indulge

 

Thankfully I've been very lucky with the hifi I have bought - being quite glad and happy with it.

The Theta was bought off ebay in an attempt to try and get the DVD2900 to get better cd sound (it's good as is and sacd is excellent on it but the cd doesn't out do the MIMIK) I wanted on all encompassing digi front and. Sadly I still prefer the Mimik for cd only so have too many boxes still.

Although 90% of listening is now through vinyl.

 

the best sound i have ever ever heard is vinyl replay. on a rockport. truely awesome sounding, as they say the source is the most important thing and i aggree, spend a lot on a proper record deck arm and cartridge ,and you could run it into 300 quids worth of amp and speakers and get a great sound. far better than some high end cd systems i have heard

 

you like sacd ? i find it to clinical and brittle

 

Careful there you are almost sounding like you work for Linn or maybe IT wasn't so wrong after all.

 

work for linn you must be joking! i have been down that linn route my friend i can asure you never again .i am happy with what i have now. i have had the arcam for 3 years and my gyro sme v for 8, nick made me think of looking at a pink triangle dac though

 

I have about 50 sacds and think it is much better than cd. The Denon replays these really well and I find the sound more 'analogue' like. I can happily listen to sacd - some of the Channel Classics discs are excellent.

Sadly some (Pink Floyd being a major culprit here) are just there to get surround sound and do sound poor - I'm a stereo guy so surround doesn't interest not even for films. Decent DSD recorded disks sound excellent.

 

a high end cd system will high lite the front end to much, so harshness is high on the agenda

 

i am so used to my arcam and gyro i suppose playing sacd through the 868 avi will sound brittle i think, and you are right i am not sure about surround on music it sounds naff

 

another thing i moved from a ax5i £1000 to a ax10i £3000 and the difference was so tiny i wish i never bothered, again all hype my friend.

 

Done properly surround sound music can be very good and involving.

Sadly too many recordings use the surround for gimmicks. I have a Cecilia Bartoli concert on DVD where only the audience is on the rear channels and it is very involving and 'real live' sounding.

Also the room I'm in is too small to do justice to surround - better to have good stereo than dodged surround.

 

my surround system stands me in over 6 grand i wouldn't bother with it at all, stick wih stereo

 

did you read the article in stereophile where I.T. from Linn goes head to head with Wilson's CEO (the speaker manufacturer) and various other hifi people?

interesting stuff.

personally I feel that I.T.'s arguements that "the system with the best source will always sound the best, because it has the best source" are misguided. There are just too many ways to kill that quality further down the chain. My otherwise not-that-shabby Sytemdeck IIXE sounded dreadfull through the inbuilt phono stage in my old MF integrated. I dont think my newer deck (or any other deck) would fare much better!

Perhaps his comments had more relevance in the 1970's when the LP12 stood out as a landmark product without the competition it now faces.

This isn't LP12 knocking, but I find it a suprise that a company such as LINN which is at the forefront of modern technology in hifi in so many ways... multi-room, unidisc players, active speakers etc have never decided to manufacture a new turntable from the ground up. I wonder what they could do with a clean sheet design?

 

most of the surround sound modes on the amp are appauling truley appauling. i never use any of them even sacd i play in stereo