Hi All, I have two systems. One in my house and another in my cabin. In my home system I could tell the difference between my TP and a demo Linn Majik DS. I'll leave out my own preferences, don my flame resistant cloak and say I went with the Majik for home use.
My thought was to move my TP to the cabin to replace my SB3 and CI Audio DAC, yet after two days of side by side I really can't identify any differences. There is a sizable price difference between the home and cabin systems -- BUT not a personally perceived sound difference. The cabin has a Jolida tube amp, Omega 6 Grande Fostex speakers, and about $3k in ICs and speaker cables (in addition to the other gear that's not relevant like the TT, phono pre, and CD-T). I thought that moving the TP up here would bump up the resolution and sound stage like it did when I replaced my SB3 and CI Audio DAC with the TP last year in the home system. (The SB3 and DAC moved to the cabin.) It didn't. In fact, I can't hear a darn bit of difference. I can ID a huge difference when using the SB3 without the DAC. Am I missing a bit of synergy or is this $5k system not resolving enough to hear the subtle changes between the SB3/DAC vs. TP? Here's the cabin system: All ALAC streamed from a MacPro Jolida 102B Channel Islands Audio VDA-2 plus VAC-1 power supply Zu Mission RCA from DAC/TP to amp Zu Firemine from CD-T to DAC/TP Richard Gray 400 Power Conditioner Rotel CD-T Should I be reconsidering my DAC listing on Audiogon for a loss? I already sold one SB3. My question to you is:: At what point did you experience a system shift great enough to differentiate between the SB3 and a TP, and then, what jump had to occur for you to notice a difference between a good DAC and the TP? Can a $1200 SB3 + DAC = a $2000 TP in an otherwise $5k system. Obviously, a SB3 playing mp3s into a clock radio will sound just as good as a TP. When did you hear the shift? -- kphinney -I like it, you may not. I understand and respect that.- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kphinney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10409 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=72542 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
