spritzer

Well I was talking about the electrostatic bias but the other one is easy. Didn't you ever bias the T1W when you were tuberolling it?

I'm waiting for Justin to come up with an electrostatic version.

I'm game as well... bow before the bias...

Amateur... Only 19 though... you need to do some more buying. I think I owned 17 Lambdas at one point though...

I think it is very likely that will happen soon. They didn't even bother to find out what was wrong with them.

Yeah. That was when I first ripped it apart for some cleaning and re-lubing.

Spritzer= Stax (electrostatic in general really) and tube fan-boy.

If you do go for them be sure to get enough C37 lacquer... While I agree with a lot of stuff that they do the magical lacquer just doesn't make any sense to me.

The fact that it needed to be replaced after about 1000 hours points in the other direction...

All the different variations of the top Sony transports were also widely used, JVC also had a great one and lets not forget the original Philips swing arm. It's sad that today we have the CD-Pro2 and some POS plastic drives. It does though I think it is the CD-Pro2... No matter as it is a massive die-cast beast.

The drive is actually 40$ but who cares... It's mediocre as it is designed to sound nice and not right. It will gloss over all the natural edges and present some blob of sound. When a TDA1451A equipped dac is capable of more resolution and a cleaner output I had enough and the G08 went on the 'gon. The player isn't all bad and I've heard plenty that are worse but it isn't in any way a step forward over some good vintage players. That is something my APL will fix or I'm taking a hammer to it...

He was quoting me. It's true that only some circuits can be made into opamps but that doesn't change the fact that their internal components such as the silicone caps will never beat a MKP cap. Still opamps have their place and I only object to their use in the high end.

The sound of the G08 is mediocre at best and the same goes for the 808. Meridian are simply trying to recreate in software what they they used to do with solid engineering and experience and are doing a crap job at it. The only good thing about it is the chassis work and clever use of damping. It doesn't surprise me that you don't care about good engineering as you like the RSA crap.

Opening it up only confirmed my suspicion that something wasn't quite right under the hood. Still I got it cheap and it didn't see much use the last years as I've been running a few DAC's and CDP''s that I've had on loan.

It could be one of the newer DVS drives but it definitely is a DVD-ROM. Not surprising since that is standard practice today. The tray is somewhat similar to the old DVS drive I removed from the Meridian G08. I sometimes wonder how good CDP's would be if we still used the older transports with todays dacs and filters... \

It almost always comes down to what is easier to do. Why would Esoteric go to all that trouble creating the best transport in the world and match it with a clock laved DAC when the output stage is some opamp mess straight off the spec sheet. This applies to nearly all manufacturing where discrete parts are better and cheaper in the end in the hands of people that know how to use them. In the end it all depends on how much you payed for said engineering solution. I got very angry when I saw the opamp output of my old Meridian G08 but I'm fine with it in a cheaper player.

Nope just what I've heard from one of the amateur designers up here. He's been obsessed to preach about the evils of excessive feedback and opamp usage (EE teachers can be wacky like that) so he's constructed a number of similar amps and showed us the difference. It mostly showed how bad cheap opamps are but the good ones can come close to a fully discrete circuit but the cost goes up as well. Who cares anyway since this is sand amp crap!! Give me tubes or give me death...

Opamps are fine in a small headphone amps or some home cinema gear but have no place in the high end. This isn't some prejudice but that facts that the components on the chips are beyond horrible. This applies mostly to the caps and resistors. These can never match good discrete components but that doesn't mean that opamps can't have their uses outside of the signal path such as in servo circuits and the like. Some opamps are pretty good like the 627/637 but so expensive that it's doubtful they are worth the extra cost. They are still used as it is easy to design around them.

I find it really sad that the accepted standard now is that it sounds nice... Opamps are ok now in a high end design just al long as the chassis looks cool... and has some blinking lights

My guess is the DVS crap as everybody and their grandmother is using it. It is basically a DVD-ROM but it is quieter.

That is the excelent normal bias SR-Lambda bass you are talking about. The SRD-7 is also helping along in the bass department.

It didn't have GEC tubes and the chassis was pretty crappy. The crazy collector in me has no problem with ripping out everything and installing Nextgen connectors, silver wiring, Riken resistors and silver caps but the gear has to look vintage on the outside... I'll buy a pair one of these days and I've already planned the mods

Mmmmm Quads..... I almost bought a set of Quad II's yesterday on fleebay.

I don't know if it the approved standard but it's better then most and they did express interest in serious headphone test and talked about the theory where headphones differ from speakers in a recent issue so they are better then most. In the last issue they slammed the Rega Saturn and actually said what they didn't like about it. On top of all of this they showed a picture of a Stax SR-404 in the last issue in response to one readers letter so that is a big thumbs up from me.

I'd rather pay more for good information then get the rubbish for free. I just got an email telling me I spent 100UKP's on three Hi-fi books... Add that to all the diy books and equipment so it is really a wonder if this way is cheaper then being an idiot audiophile that plugs his 4000$ cable into a 5cent rca jack.