Bosley
18-07-2018, 20:31
My hifi journey started in the 60’s with a Garrard turntable, Rogers amp and a pair of Kef kit 2 speakers. With a bit more cash to spend I moved on to Quad 33/405 with Thorens/SME/Stanton and Spendor BC1’s.
This was added to with Nakamichi tape deck and then later on an Arcam CD player and I have stayed with this system for 40 plus years.
Then I was introduced to Spotify (and now Tidal) played through a Chord Mojo DAC. This was a revelation to me, it brought my system alive and revived my interest in hifi once again. The Thorens and Arcam have gone, replaced by a Chord 2Qute/Chromecast/Tidal.
Digital for me I thought, then I went to the North West Audio Show and wandered into a demo by Soundfowndation. I now understand why people rave about vinyl. The guy doing the demo was playing Toy by Yello and it sounded superb. I asked him if the sound source really was the turntable and if so where was the crackle and the hiss? He said he could give me that but he would have to rub the disc on the carpet first! Absolute magical sound but it came with a price tag somewhere north of £20k!
I am currently listening to Elbow, Laura Marling, Can, Yello, Alt-J, National, but with Tidal I am browsing AOS recommended albums and discovering new music. Wonderful!
This was added to with Nakamichi tape deck and then later on an Arcam CD player and I have stayed with this system for 40 plus years.
Then I was introduced to Spotify (and now Tidal) played through a Chord Mojo DAC. This was a revelation to me, it brought my system alive and revived my interest in hifi once again. The Thorens and Arcam have gone, replaced by a Chord 2Qute/Chromecast/Tidal.
Digital for me I thought, then I went to the North West Audio Show and wandered into a demo by Soundfowndation. I now understand why people rave about vinyl. The guy doing the demo was playing Toy by Yello and it sounded superb. I asked him if the sound source really was the turntable and if so where was the crackle and the hiss? He said he could give me that but he would have to rub the disc on the carpet first! Absolute magical sound but it came with a price tag somewhere north of £20k!
I am currently listening to Elbow, Laura Marling, Can, Yello, Alt-J, National, but with Tidal I am browsing AOS recommended albums and discovering new music. Wonderful!