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The new 3a has a slight edge over my older unit even though I want to believe my older one is better due to the active crossovers. I fully believe that the older unit with active crossovers could be made to sound as good with eq tweaks. The seperation the new 3a gets is pretty amazing when you listen to multi track guitar work like LZs the song remains the same each little part is very apparent. Mike glad to see you saved $1800!!

Chris my condolences, hope you have a good birthday when the time is right

Mikey Happy Birthday, sounds like a fun filled and dram filled day

I really like some of the stuff on HD tracks and feel most are worth the cash. Audacity's tools are not the most accurate (or so I am told) but they give you a rough idea. I'm sure someone will correct me but your first plot shows frequency activity above 22khz so likely it is 24/96 (no that you'd hear distortion and artifacts above 22khz) I'm pretty flip floppy on the whole issue. Recording needle drops high res makes a difference when encoding the analog signal and applying the RIAA curve digitally. Playback is tougher and 24/44.1 is ok or the movie standard of 24/48 is cool as well while I've heard plenty of 24/192 that sound awesome I'm not sure its needed for all recordings.

Had a fresh roasted coffee and will likely follow with a few beers that Raffy and Mike left after the weekend

you've really got to be kidding me, you bump a thread that is 3.5 years dead and buried to ask you question. Did you even read your welcome pm. see ya

Dang Matt that sounds tasty

damn that looked like a great time I love some stouts and you guys had a killer line up

watched the season 2 opener and is it me or are they significantly less afaid of getting zombie blood on them this season than last? That said it was ok, a bit let down since I loved season 1

I scored 6 Bitch Please this week while traveling for business, hope this stuff is good given the $12.75 proce per 12 oz bottle

btw Props to TTVJ for making the glasses for the beer night Todd is a class act and yet another reason to send your money with him. His beer stock was magnificent, I only wish I had brought my 25 year old liver rather than my 47 year old liver with me to RMAF

Carl Happy Birthday hope to see you soon

I have not laughed this hard in a long time, I think Al and I were trying to kill each other and several times beer or hot dogs almost shot out of our noses and we were laughing so hard. I wished I had filmed Dinny's "Tom Waits hits hard times and starts doing supermarket shopper announcements". You had to be there

My take is they are well past the LCD 2 with a more even frequency response and far greater detail, speed and layering. To me they are well worth the additional cost.

Just got back from the airport and boy am I beat. Thanks to all that attended I had a great time. Lots of really good stuff and some really bad stuff as well. Bigest suprise for me was the YG speakers, I hated them last year and they went 0 for 3 in 2010 this year they went 2 for 2 in the two rooms that I heard them in. Not the "greatest speaker on earth" but very good.

Peter wish I had known as we could have celebrated early. It was great seeing you and I hope you have a great birthday in Denver!!

Vicki happy birthday, wish I was there or you were here. Let's celebrate when I get back

Well time for a coffee and to get the room pipe and drape done Tyler what do you recommend this year?

Larry take care of your health first and foremost, no need to bring gear although I really do appreciate what you have done in years prior. There should be a butt load of gear in that room and even if there weren't in this circumstance just come out and enjoy yourself if you are able to. Get well soon

no my understanding is the full signal goes to each driver man I just did a back and forth between the JH13 and the jfetastic amp balanced and the 3a both playing 24/96 files and the 3a just mops the floor with the 13 balanced combo. I am gonna see if I can get some time with the new amp to compare unfortunately it is also going to mean using demo 16s for the new 3a

Will do

two best TT experiences were both idler wheel drives. OMA has a lenco driven table that once was an absolute bargain ($4400) and now is a bit on the costly side ($8K). This table with the miyajima carts were heaven. I heard this at OMA's showroom and at RMAF and was blown away. The other is much more reasonable cost wise but requires either skills or a friend with them. GoTu had a 301/301 in a plywood open plinth think two sheets of plywood on top 4 steel rods (one in each corner) and a plywood base. This rig had me feeling goosebumps as VSAC. I've heard a ton or great TTs but these both created a "live" in the room experience. I've got a 401 at the moment that I just need to find someone to plinth it up for me.

I am pretty bummed by this turn of events as my whole reason for buying into the concept was the active crossovers + DSP piece. The DSP is still there with phase and time alignment but it feels like not a whole product at this point. Given the trade off between size usability and sound I have to hear the final product to make a determination. I thought the 3a + halide usb bridge was a top flight combo and one I could easily live with. I'm not so sure that I want the new unit but I'm going to reserve judgement unit after I hear it at RMAF. I've done a fair bit of rationalization on this 16 month road but it is still a DAC/AMP combo for $1800 so the amp/dac is really $600. I am really torn between a pico slim or pico dac amp and the 13s I already have or stick it out. I'm not sure I can keep the unit as if it is a patent issue JH will most likely want to trade these units out and not be able to offer ongoing support for them. This has to be killing the folks at JH, for me it is just one of a few rigs but for them it was a flagship concept. Not saying they could have avoided this but it still sucks.

Don that awesome Steve not sure what my availability Thursday night will be as vendors will be rolling in to set up. I am definitely up for a beer after we are set up. Tyler what was the name of that place you took us to for middle eastern food ( I think) I just recall it being very good and having mint tea

beer oder is in process while I can't get great beer I did manage to order a Great Divide Denver Pale Ale ( I need a decent session beer for the masses) and I am trying to get a 5 gallon keg of Fresh Hop Ale from Great Divide a long shot but what the heck. If that fails I may go Yeti.