Tír Na HiFi

Fran wrote:besides, its dubhs you need, not quads!


savage deal on them though, gotta say!! I think I'd have enough dustcover material here if someone buys them to do the missing cover.


I'm listening to LPs tonight! don't send out a lynch mob!

Traitor how can you listen to such archaic irrelevant devices. They are so last century.
I have been told what I need btw and it aint another set of speakers!

I'm hearin' ya!


I need to get back on the wagon soon.... I have batteries sitting ready for use.... just haven't got around to hooking them up yet.


Fran

Fran wrote:I'm hearin' ya!


I need to get back on the wagon soon.... I have batteries sitting ready for use.... just haven't got around to hooking them up yet.


Fran

its well worth it!!

Have to admit to being on the black stuff myself for the past 2 days and it has just raised the bar significantly for PC based playback.
My excuse was that my replacement Mobo was not shipped until late in the week by Amazon so I will not have it until tomorrow hopefully.

My previous benchmark for comparison was a German Dual belt driven TT which I picked up from sdiesel77 and PC playback was an easy winner even with a Puresound phono stage.
With a Scout TT with a Denon MC on the Puresound phono the bar has been raised massively and at least now I have a realistic target to aim for.

Glad now I purchased the Scout as it will provide a good reference for comparing playback qualities between albums and tracks on both TT and PC.

Let the games begin :-))

Sligolad wrote:Have to admit to being on the black stuff myself for the past 2 days and it has just raised the bar significantly for PC based playback.
My excuse was that my replacement Mobo was not shipped until late in the week by Amazon so I will not have it until tomorrow hopefully.

My previous benchmark for comparison was a German Dual belt driven TT which I picked up from sdiesel77 and PC playback was an easy winner even with a Puresound phono stage.
With a Scout TT with a Denon MC on the Puresound phono the bar has been raised massively and at least now I have a realistic target to aim for.

Glad now I purchased the Scout as it will provide a good reference for comparing playback qualities between albums and tracks on both TT and PC.

Let the games begin :-))

i was trying to figure out wether youve hit the stout in mourning of your motherboard, or youve just been listening to vinyl

when i get two pcs working on batteries id like to tackle some of these hi-end tt's to see where were placed sound wise

just wondering about the vinyl vs digital pc audio thing
will the recordings be the same?

That is going to be the hard part trying to get two recordings mastered very closely. Best of luck on that.
Really I suppose you want to just compare a really good TT set up and see what magic it brings and if the CA set up
is doing something similar or is just completely different.

At end of the day they are totally different beasts and maybe the same type of experience(i.e the user is completely happy with what they are using) In the end that is all that matters. Always could see the attraction of a high end TT set up. Even visually it is art and the tactile involvement brings something CA can't do. But for me getting CA to a good level with the enjoyment of browsing and selecting stuff at will means as much to me as the vinyl ritual is to a TT user.

wondering if you ripped from vinyl would there be a loss in the ripping process

I have a good few albums on both vinyl and remastered cd and a few on hi-res download. They are available if wanted.

mick wrote:I have a good few albums on both vinyl and remastered cd and a few on hi-res download. They are available if wanted.

do you think any of them are the same recording and similarly mastered?

how do they compare on your setup?

Without turning the thread in to a vinyl versus PC based discussion I found from my 2 days of listening it seems the vinyl has really great organic bass and midrange and may be lacking a bit on the exceptional detail and dynamics we get from PC based playback.
Recent steps on clean power supply have been giving us lots more in the lower regions and mids but there is something very good about the bass with the TT which I have not heard as good with the PC.
Maybe the fact I have been without the PC based system for a week has lessened my memory of how good it is but I will hopefully be able to confirm what I am hearing this week.
Just got the Mobo today so hopefully will get my system back up and running.

For comparison I have a clean LP of Van Morrisons And Street Choir and I never heard it sound so good so I will be comparing tracks on this side by side to the CD 16 x 44 rip.
I do not think either is a remaster so hopefully both are very similar but even if not it will be easy to focus in on certain instruments to look for differences.

Bottom line for me is that it is nice to have a target I can aim at as with all the changes and improvements to PC based playback it is easy to get lost in direction.
I do not think we will ever replicate vinyl sound but if we can take the best of vinyl and the best of digital and come to the best of both I will be happy.