Topic: playback-pr0n

[ducati]

Very cool BAT.  I would appreciate a mini review when you get a chance as I've been considering trying a BAT.

[carlbeck]

A mini review is tough b/c this is the first tube amp I have ever owned. With that being said, it did replace a few real good soild state amps. My last & favorite being the DNA-1. I had the chance to use the DNA & BAT back to back when I first got my VR4jr's. What I can say is that it does not have the slam that the DNA did but figuring it is a third of the power this makes sense. The bass is very weighty, is very fluid & does have "some" slam. The mids & highs are so beyond description, they are sweet & fluid. Actually fluid sums up the whole presentation. There is excellent soundstage & an imaging but overall the presence of tubes is what get's you. It will draw you into the music, what I find I'm enjoying is the attack of the notes. They seem to hit you hard & then have a sweet decay. The music sounds LIVE, I can't say anything other than that. I can't imagine ANYTHING sounding better to my ears. If you want to try tubes but are afraid of a loss of bass slam, I still think this is the amp for you. You may lose a little down on the bottom octaves but what you gain everywhere else is worth tenfold IMHO.

[ducati]

It sounds very similar to my ARC. Thanks.

[BobW]

A mini review is tough b/c this is the first tube amp I have ever owned.......................

Wow !  That's like learning to drive in a Ferrari !   

                   
                            Giddyap !

[udovdh]

This one is the coolest from the thread... 

[pfife]

that quaf is pretty tite too.

[BobW]

From Agon:   



Is this for real ?
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrfull&1123280981

[fsulloway]

From Agon:   



Is this for real ?
http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?spkrfull&1123280981

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That pic certainly doesn't make me want to shell out $600. However I know nothing about these speakers or anything about single driver speakers for that matter.

[macdaddy]

just finished (re)building my mediaplayer 'puter (which i affectionately call my "hi-fi pc") and adding it to the stack...




here is a closeup of the h-fpc (with the jolida on top)...




and here is a not-so-good(quality) pic of the glow...

[Tim]

nice, care to explain your pc setup?

I haven't been able to get a good picture of the tube glow either

I'm going to start running vxpocket digi out->dac for now

[macdaddy]

nice, care to explain your pc setup?

I haven't been able to get a good picture of the tube glow either

I'm going to start running vxpocket digi out->dac for now

see now, if you had had me as your houseguest next week, i coulda shown ya (i am kidding - i know you had plans)

signal path: ap2496 > spdif coax > monarchy dip(s) > mensa > joLida

display: matrix orbital lcd2041 (with their supplied serial cable interface and adapted power cable) > lcdsmartie (which reads the output of the foo_txt plugin in foobar2000)

control: airbord IR remote keyboar/mouse (which i use to train the theatermaster mx700)

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fwiw...

i have the optical out of the c2000es (sacd/cd player) plugged into the first monarchy in the DAC chain [it has two inputs (coax + optical), with a toggle switch on the back], so that i am using the sony player as a redbook transport only, because i switch the monarchy to optical input, and then the cd digital goes through the dac chain. if the toggle is set to coax input, it takes whatever i play in foobar2000 (including 24/96 audio files)...

i have the rca outs of that sacd/cd unit go to the second input on the joLida for sacd playback...

the nak deck plays back via the dat analog input, so i can have save the last jolida input (of four) for the phono...

[Tim]

nice

I just downloaded foobar... I'm going to start playing with that this afternoon

[pfife]

Foobar has been FUBAR for me.  It worked for like 2 days, now it always thinks that some other device is using my cdrom.

[dnsacks]

tim -- foobar's real nice, be sure to download the biggest/most comprehensive version available as that's the one that will decode shns.

Macdaddy -- can the lcd screen be used to scan music directories to identify stored albums/shows to play, or do you still need a "real" screen for that? - also, can the lcd screen easily be mounted remotely (my pc sits hidden behind my stereo rack)?

[macdaddy]

tim -- foobar's real nice, be sure to download the biggest/most comprehensive version available as that's the one that will decode shns.

they call that the special version (all the components you need in the one *.exe)

Macdaddy -- can the lcd screen be used to scan music directories to identify stored albums/shows to play, or do you still need a "real" screen for that? - also, can the lcd screen easily be mounted remotely (my pc sits hidden behind my stereo rack)?

you mean mount it in sometihing other than two drive bays..? yes - the frame is easy to mount... your biggest problem would be getting the power cable to it - the serial cable is long enough...

as for scanning the drives... if i can use lcdsmartie to have it print live ezt rss feeds, i am sure there is a way to have it scan your drives. not sure what you want to do there...

but basically  - if lcd smartie can do it, you can do it with the display...

i just have foo txt output a four line txt file, and each line gets printed on the display - the file updates once/second...

http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/