HiFi Subjectivist ¦ Audio Forum ¦ Richard Dunn NVA

:clap: Judging from your posts Fretless I guess we are similar vintage LOL we certainly have similar musical tastes :grin: I'm 56. Got into music with in the 70s with Prog in one ear and Punk in the other. Whilst playing classical Cello and singing in an Abbey choir Just realised that I should get ...

Had my Metrum Musette on NVA A40 amps for a couple of years now without any problems. But volume pot never goes above 12 o'clock.

What a welcome change to hear the Strawbs mentioned in dispatches, "FROM THE WITCHWOOD" and "ALL OUR OWN WORK" being two particular fav's. 'Hero and Heroine' is an all-time favourite of mine. 'Ghosts' was the follow-up to that and is an album I have missed out on - really superb album in a similar ...

karatestu wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 22, 2019 9:50 am

Slapping yourself around the face and chanting "i shall not believe the hype" helps in my experience

Good tip Stu - I'll have to give it a try.

Strawbs 'Ghosts'

My lack of technical experience does show itself here. Just me saying what I have discovered first-hand and from the information available.

Still on that learning curve ....

So far, I have found the NOS approach (as used in the Metrum DAC's) to be more musically satisfying than any oversampling systems that I have heard (e.g.: Hegel, MF, Mark Levinson, Moon, Cambridge). The direct processing of 16-bit (CD) datastream to an analogue signal without oversampling / filterin...

'The Keith Emerson Band' (2008) https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61P1U23n-3L.jpg Keith Emerson decided to revisit the sound and style of ELP with this millenial line-up featuring guitarist/singer Marc Bonilla. The trademark vituoso classical Grand Piano, raging riffs on Hammond Orga...

The Nice 'Five Bridges'

I had both Grado 325 and Meze 99

Grado SR325 were too heavy to be comfortable with a very pronounced treble.

Meze 99 Classics look good and sound good. Dynamic and lively sound with effective isolation from outside noise.