Yesterday saw over 30 BAAS members auditioning the stunning new library of high resolution (24/176) recordings based on the Reference Recordings (RR) master tapes.
The ‘BAAS Sessions’ represent the first public demonstration of the recordings and the recommended hardware to play them (based on a PC Sound card). As such, they went beyond the various previews […]
General location:
San Ramon
Digital Sources:
Parasound DVP1000
Marantz DV8400
Marantz CC4000
We were all taught that Tom Edison made the first recordings, using his famous wax cylinders. This recounting certainly fits well with our typical US-centric mindset.
As it turns out, this article in Nature reports that Edison was probably two decades late. It turns out that Edison was probably bested by a Frenchman (Edourard-Leon Scott), who […]
I am in the Oakland area and welcome interested visitors.
Main listening system
Amplification:
Air Tight ATM-3 tube monoblocks modified by Tom Tutay for main speakers, 1960s Mullard El34s
Onkyo Grand Integra M-508 -to run Subwoofers
Preamp:
Aloia Pst11.01 with Separate inductive power supply
Analog:
Well Tempered Classic, Sumiko SHO med output MC
PS Audio Phonolink
Digital:
Audio Matiere Dialogue transport
Sony CPD-x779es transport modified by APL
VAC […]
You start buying capacitors for your speaker crossovers that are as large as a baseball and weigh a half-pound each!
These ClarityCap SA’s are for the midrange circuit of my Usher Dancer’s.
It’s the type of thing Alon might put in his Magico’s. (Actually, this part is a bit low-end for the Magico!)
We have all been in hundreds of discussions centering on a description of “what we heard” - usually to evaluate the quality of a given system, component, mix, or piece of music. And we’ve all been alternately mesmerized and frustrated by the unusual things that we read and hear, such as:
“Where’s the air? The music […]
DIGITAL SOURCES
Sony JA333ES Mini Disc Recorder
Sony C555ES 5-disc SACD/CD player
Pioneer PDR-w839 CD Recorder
ANALOGUE SOURCES
None
PREAMP
NAD C162 Stereo Preamp
Digital Source:
Abbingdon Music Research: CD-77 (pic)
Analog Source:
Raven One Turntable (pic)
Tonearm:
Dynavector: 507 MKII (pic)
DIGITAL SOURCES
Sony CX90es
Monarchy Audio DIP
Sony DVPCX995V
ANALOG SOURCES
None
PREAMP
Sony TAE-9000es
If you haven’t seen the latest “audiophile cables are hype” saga, click here for the Engadget article (courtesy of RichardT).
On a related note, RichardT (a BAAS member) shares the results of his own informal testing:
Two friends and I recently did a careful test of audio input cables using two high end cables and […]