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  1. Bob Boyer

    Digital upgrades and a new DAC in my future?

    So the missing link showed up. Now there's some more bass to help the DAC. Scott found nothing amiss with the amp after all these months. Only supposition is a speaker wire was grounded across both outputs and I missed it.
  2. Bob Boyer

    Open-Reel Tape Experiences -The Good & Bad

    Can't remember if it was backcoated or not, Nando. The Roy Buchanan album you sent me on it was quite good sounding, as I recall. I digitized it before getting rid of all the reel to reel stuff a few years back.
  3. Bob Boyer

    what are you listening to?

    They are a hoot, for sure. Saw them at a showcase conference years ago but had no way to fit them into the format I was programming at the time.
  4. Bob Boyer

    what are you listening to?

    A gift from some new friends. Absolutely amazing concert last night, one of my top three from 20 years of presenting these shows. Up there with Dave Mason and Rosanne Cash. If string music/bluegrass/Americana at all appeals to you, this group is not to be overlooked: https://krugerbrothers.com/...
  5. Bob Boyer

    Open-Reel Tape Experiences -The Good & Bad

    HI Mark, ATR will not let you down. Didn't have any trouble with RMGI, or whatever it's called now, either, but ATR was my go-to tape for critical recordings. Never a note of issue with sticky-shed. I agree with Jim - the backcoated Ampex and Quantegy tapes were the primary offenders, though I...
  6. Bob Boyer

    Digital upgrades and a new DAC in my future?

    Been reading a couple of reviews while waiting on either half of tonight's group to show (the quartet is delayed an hour getting out of Chicago and the Krugers themselves are on schedule, driving in from North Wilkesboro, NC). A couple of the reviewers noted a slightly "lean" sound, so it's...
  7. Bob Boyer

    Digital upgrades and a new DAC in my future?

    A couple of preliminary observations from an hour or two last night. As I remarked over in the "What Are You Doing..." thread, on a variety of different files, I noticed the Pro-Ject seems to have a bit less bass than my Tascam converter. I tried to parse this a bit further with my go-to bass...
  8. Bob Boyer

    what are you listening to?

    Velvet Underground on the new DAC. Been hopping across some tunes I'm familiar with and my initial impression is that it's pretty transparent but a little light in the bass. Still trying to compare files (I have several different digital copies of Hotel California from Hell Freezes Over, for...
  9. Bob Boyer

    Open-Reel Tape Experiences -The Good & Bad

    Welcome to sticky shed syndrome, Mark. My solution was to just toss 'em - and I had a bunch of bad 10" reels of Ampex 407. It was pretty easy to get the tape off the metal reels and dump the tape, but getting bad tape off of plastic reels is a pita, even if it's only 7" reels.
  10. Bob Boyer

    WOPL a Carver C-500 Amp.

    Indeed.
  11. Bob Boyer

    Digital upgrades and a new DAC in my future?

    So that Pro-Ject DAC/Headphone amp is on its way, scheduled to arrive Thursday, just in time for me to not have any time to play with it before Saturday until after I wake up from a morning nap. Have the Kruger Brothers and Kontras Quartet playing a Friday evening concert and then have to get...
  12. Bob Boyer

    Digital upgrades and a new DAC in my future?

    Younger than trying to keep idiots at work in line...
  13. Bob Boyer

    Digital upgrades and a new DAC in my future?

    Maybe less than it sounds, but still another project. Still have some investments in lead to make as well as truck upgrades, too. I'll stay busy.
  14. Bob Boyer

    Digital upgrades and a new DAC in my future?

    Anyone tried this DAC (https://www.audioadvisor.com/prhbs2d-blk?sku=NEW-PRHBS2D-BLK)? I'm about to give up the good fight and invest in a new Mac laptop sometime in the next year. My Mac Mini is overloaded by the OS upgrades I've been required to make so I can run Turbotax - at this point, it...
  15. Bob Boyer

    Pro-Ject NRS Box and Those Noisy Records

    Not had much time to pull off this test, but did get a short file of the first bars of the intro to Paco's Crazy Eyes, a song on a VG++ to Mint- album I've had for a long time. The intro is quiet enough to hear the crackles; they're certainly not enough to keep me from enjoying the album or the...
  16. Bob Boyer

    Maxell UR or Sony HF?

    Take the trips Alex, it's the last luxury in the world. The more remote, the better, at least for me. You'll always remember them. Just get there before the damn hipsters ruin the places taking selfies to show where they've been.
  17. Bob Boyer

    Pro-Ject NRS Box and Those Noisy Records

    Now there's an idea. I'll report back when I get to it, hopefully this weekend sometime. I could run a couple of cuts from Bangla Desh to see how it works. Have you tried that with your Sugar Cube? If you have, hold on to your thoughts until I get a couple of files created. I'll let you know...
  18. Bob Boyer

    Pro-Ject NRS Box and Those Noisy Records

    LOL - and if the copy I bought a few years ago is any indication - they all got the hell played out of them. I think you're spot on with that analysis, too.
  19. Bob Boyer

    Pro-Ject NRS Box and Those Noisy Records

    Some thoughts after having a few more sessions to listen to the new snap-crackle-pop deletion device. I think my original impressions (in this thread: https://forums.phxaudiotape.com/threads/what-are-you-listening-to.8/page-1137#post-346320) are still valid though maybe not quite as much...
  20. Bob Boyer

    what are you listening to?

    Going through the Ps on the Astell & Kern - Pink Floyd/Wish You Were Here, Poco/Crazy Eyes, and Procul Harum's Greatest Hits.
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