Ahh, thanks. Going thru the list I didn't find much if any that I have. I did find Blondie Live, and looking at the jewel case, it was marked HDCD (even though it was a BMG pressing). Put it in, and once I hit play the HDCD light came on. Thanks, answered my question.
I'm still trying to verify if an HDCD compatible player I have is working or not. I haven't been able to get the HDCD light to come on with anything I have put in it. Supposedly Roxy Music-Avalon is an HDCD, but my copy was licensed by BMG, so I don't know if it really is an HDCD or not.
Into girl singers lately (always?):
Garbage: I'm Only Happpy When It Rains
Curve: Lillies Dying
(actually, a bunch of Curve stuff comes to mind. Just wish they were recorded better.)
You could also get some alligator or mini-grabber adapter clips such as these and take a crappy RCA plug, strip it, and clip onto the shell of it. Many test lead sets come with an assortment of attachments. I use a set from Mueller that works pretty well and wasn't very expensive.
That was really nice of Doug to take the time to do this. I would really appreciate it if he would ever have the time to take a look at my Counterpoint preamp that I have been working on with limited success for quite some time to eradicate a bit of noise.
That and the ones that can tell you what plating is used, and whether there is tin plating under the gold -> copper or not. And yes, they are serious
They don't seem to reveal PCB construction, etc. though.
I hadn't heard that Les was done doing Survivorman... bummer as I liked that show. I can certainly see how it could be hard on you though when he put it in perspective of having 25 weeks where he basically had starved
I don't think the Dynalo/Dynahi architectures can run at a gain below 5 or so (IIRC?). Like they said, go balanced if you want improvements, although from the pics you posted on HF, I would do a better PSU (can you say sigma22) first. It will make a difference.
I knew I had seen a post by someone claiming that the German Maestro cans were really bright (from the N. Cal meet thread):
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