Same here:
Denon PMA 920 Amplifier
Dual CS 505-3 Ortofon Super OM 10
Sony CDP-338 esD CD Player
Denon TU 460 Tuner
Sony TC-K 600ES Cassette Player
Bowers&Wilkins DM 580 Speakers
NAD 3030 integrated amp, and on top of that the 50w class D that replaced it.
They sound indistinguishable from one another, except the left channel doesn’t occasionally crackle and cut out on one of the two amps. I’ll let you guess which one.
Nice, NAD ftw also!
Mine starts crackling on the right channel, too. Will need a replacement soon or later. When the amp has warmed up crackling is gone. Caps are getting dry i guess…
Peachtree Audio - Decco - with tube amp and Philips TDA1541A DAC
CELEF - speakers (now ProAC) - (celef name came from Celestion tweeters and KEF woofers)
everything I listen to is digital - and never sounded better
A denon 7.2 with some nice klh speakers. I dunno about y’all but I like the hifi tech. My 4k tv is routed through the stereo and the Dolby surround is sweet.
Please don’t hate me on this but flac played directly to the stereo through the Denon WiFi feature sounds so way better than any dac or setup I had in the past. Never had a good vinyl setup so hard to compare the flac over WiFi to it
I encourage anyone interested in Hifi to check out Audio Science Review and Erins Audio Corner. ASR was founded by a former Microsoft VP, EAC by an aerospace engineer. Both bought the most advanced speaker measurement robot system available: The Klippel Nearfield Scanner (costing a substantial six figure sum). This enables them to test speakers to the most advanced industry standard by measuring the soundfield in 360 degrees and emulating anechoic conditions by dynamically gating the time window of each sweep. They have no (direct) commercial interest and measure speakers that customers and companies send them as a passion project. Really cool stuff that helped me gain a deeper understanding of loudspeakers.
Thank you , originally I had metal cylinders with squash balls sat on them for decoupling, but it sounded muddy and thebballs eventually stayed squashed! Skateboard wheels provide a tighter sound!
When I produce music I use these for mixing and mastering. I would suggest though if you can find an old Marantz or Rotel class A/B amplifier from 1978 and before, that is really where it is at.
The sound driver in Mac is really good now and my iPhone has 4 microphones on it for spatial recording which is interesting. I haven’t delved into spatial mastering yet but it seems like I could really carve out a space even better than it already does with the regular mastering and mixing tools in Logic Pro. I have taken the tools in Logic Pro and used them to clean up and enhance older shitty recordings also and it can work well for that.
Canadas National Research Council is another great source for high quality loudspeaker measurements. They have a real anechoic chamber and used to fund groundbreaking research. Many detailed measurements are freely available through a cooperation with Sound Stage Network. These have little in common with the rudimentary low resolution measurements by the usual hifi press.
When I was gone one of my daughters was so sweet and cleaned out my garge. This was way back and hifi and records where “obsolete” and she threw it all out.
Now everybody realizes why us old timmers were hanging onto ours.