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In Reply to: Assembling a Good Audio System – black art or not? posted by John C. - Aussie on March 1, 2006 at 19:08:28:
in my case, I've selected the technologies that have delivered optimum results for lots of people, in every case, I believe, because of the soundness of the design, and not because of exotic parts or other ephemera. Namely--Planar speakers, specifically monopole ribbons (Newform Research).
Servo subwoofer (Velodyne ULD 18 II--still the most musical sub I've heard that can deliver 30 Hz and below without doubling).
OTL tube (valve) amplifiers (Transcendent Sound)
Tube preamp (Transcendent Sound Grounded Grid--low cost/high value/high performance)
Analog rig (widely acknowledged superiority of suspended chassis turntable [home-made AR-clone] with low-output moving-coil cartridge)
SACD player (closest thing in digital to vinyl--in my case, Marantz SA8260--top-rated player).
DAC (Curcio CD12V--utilizing Philips TDA-1541 16-bit DAC chip and tube output stage--much less "digital" sounding than 1-bit delta/sigma).
Home-made Canare RCA cables (low cost, superior construction, true 75 ohm impedance).
Yeah, sure, it's what sounds good to me (and it may not necessarily sound good to you), but I think I've made a wise choice in every catagory. I can honestly say that I have much less of a desire to tinker my my system now than I've have in the previous thirty years or so that I've been active in audio.
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- I think it's a matter of sound engineering... - C.B. 08:38:51 03/02/06 (0)
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