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In Reply to: RE: Where do you stand? posted by Ozzie on January 15, 2024 at 16:49:42
I'm turning 75 this summer, but there's a few things I'm still going to upgrade. With that being said, I have about 2500 classical Lps still in boxes that I would like to give away for FREE FREE FREE !!! Anyone that's want's to come up to Bellingham, Wa should get their ass up here. Half of them are UK pressings. There's dozens EARLY DG LPs and EPs from 1950-1956. Three of those issues cost me three figures. I'm keeping the mono Jazz from the 50s.....Monk, Coltrane, Jimmy Smith, Clifford Brown, etc etc.
I'm purchasing a Denifrips Pontus II DAC to play back my large SACD collection. The format might not have caught on, but not the case if you love classical .....Glenn Gould, Willi Kempff, Martha Argerich, etc .
I haven't been here for years. I still haven't checked out who's still here. With the subject of age coming up however, I think might know quite a few
I still have two Rega RP 6 TTs.....one for Stereo and the other for Mono, but I've narrowed my collection to a mere 1500.
My future is unknown.....just like the rest of us. I could kick the bucket tomorrow. It's up to God, but while I'm still kicking, I'll keep upgrading or just changing things up whenever this situation.
I still LOVE music and this passion for audio play back. Just discovered Qobuz......new stuff to figure out.
I wish all you guys long life with music as the back drop to it all !!
Tom B.
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Hi Tom B,
I, too, have enjoyed your posts over many ears, and you have inspired me to pick up numerous classical LPs that I'm sure I'd have passed over otherwise. 😀
I am interested in the classical LPs! I tried to DM you thru the AA system but maybe it didn't get thru...
Thanks!
I really used to enjoy your posts with pix of the classical LPs you'd been listening to. And I see you still have the Cain & Cains. I've wanted to hear those ever since I saw them in your system. Anyway, good to know you're still kicking and listening. Wishing you the best.
-Bob
Thank's for the well wishes bro. It's great to be back!!
Tom B.
I tried the music setting of my Sony HT A9 sourced via HDMI from a Roon Nucleus, and was surprised to find the sound quality satisfyingly good. So I've simplified to a KEF LS60 with a pair of KEF KC62 subs in the living room and the Sony HT A9 in the media room. This 87 year old is a happy camper with high quality music where I want it and amazing HT.
Check with your local public radio stations to see if they have an audio reader program. Over in Lawrence, KS, KANU prepares audio tapes for people who are vision impaired. This week they have a sale at the Lawrence Public Library that features CDs, LPs, and gently used stereo equipment that has been donated to the station. All the proceeds will go to support the audio reader program. So if you know someone who is blind or is afflicted with macular degeneration, check with those radio stations and do a good deed for your community.
Edits: 01/18/24
I have the SA-KI Ruby. It has an excellent DAC and plays SACD perfectly. Not sure if it's still available, but the new model 30n is probably nearly as good.
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I have one as well and I find it to be a superlative player with CD and SACD, and the DAC is just great. It's built like a tank and it's SIMPLE. I find myself really leaning into simplicity these days, multiple boxes are more clutter and more cables. Maybe if I get my dedicated room back I might opt for separate amps and pre's, but I think the Marantz is a perfect single box solution for not crazy money. I don't care for the looks of the current Marantz SACD player, but I'm sure the sound and functionality are near equivalent.
Link below for a Ruby at TMR.
For bit more money you can get the Venus. I've had both the Pontus and now the Venus. Big step up is sound quality imo. The Pontus had the identical sound of the DAC in my Arcam sacd player. No better, no worse. I could have lived with the Arcam DAC but ordered a Venus some weeks after selling the Ponutus. Wa la. "Perfect sound forever."
I had the same problem so bought a good but fairly inexpensive SACD player from Arcam.
Yean....I figured that out, but I ran into a dude on YT that showed me how it could be done.
Check it out and tell me what you think. It involves a converter box which you plug in your HDMI cable from SACD player ( Blu Ray player) in one end and then you connect a HDMI/I2S cable into the DACs I2S connection....whalla !!
https://youtu.be/FEqHuHDbY4Y?si=rz96E37whKldYQow
Tom B.
Sorry....not the right url
https://youtu.be/FEqHuHDbY4Y?si=mWObYCeesxek0kwh
Tom B.
Thanks. I looked at that video before and then bought the Arcam SACD. player. My CD transport is a Jay's Audio 2. Just great, but hybrid SACDs sound better on the far less expensive Arcam playing the SACD layer than do the same discs playing the Red book layer via the far more expensive Jays and the Denafrips Venus. I was surprised, and makes clear again how great the sonics on SACDs can be.
Thank's for getting back to me with your experience dealing with various delivery methods. Food for thought on my end to be sure.
Tom B.
he has ripped content to native DSD which is supported.
I don't even know what that means. Where did he rip it to and how?
means extracting the files from the disc. I've done that for all my CDs and haven't spun a disk for ten years. Being able to immediately select any track from your media library to multiple systems is a beautiful thing. You spend more time listening than shuffling media to and fro shelves and player.
Such can be done for SACD with tools like "iso2dsd". The destination would be modern high capacity (in terabytes) storage where all your music resides in a single place. Inmate Kal Rubinson takes that approach using a large multi-drive NAS.
Thanks. Too technical for me. I don't mind shuffling through discs and in fact occasionally pick one out at random blindfolded. Play it without looking and am often surprised by something I hadn't heard in years.
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Your interest may vary but the results will be same. (Byrd 2020)
I can't compete with the dead. (Buck W. 2010)
Cowards can't be heroes. (Byrd 2017)
Why don't catfish have kittens? (Moe Howard 1937)
I live in Wyoming and a guy from Chicago made a trip out here to pick them up. A couple of guys in Colorado bailed out after showing interest. Their loss, if they're vinyl guys.
It's not easy giving classical away. A library might take them for their book sales, but sure aren't going to put them on the shelves. They don't do that with CDs anymore either.
One problem with downsizing is reluctance to part with items. I'm having trouble letting go of my handsome KEF Reference 1s even though I'm not using them. I think of my Thorens 124 with its intriguing SME III arm as a visual icon that I don't use but enjoy looking at. Maybe I'll add the KEFs.
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