Love that NAK...

Paul, Thank you for enlightening me with the IFI gear and your awesome B-tree!! I'm going to the link you gave us to look into buying one for my Zen listening area. Man, I appreciate your energy, knowledge, honesty, your way of reviewing things and kind ways-a good man I see and follow! Thank you for all the work you put into producing your organic like videos - fun to follow you around the apartment with a view- Kind regards to you, A fellow audiophile, on the peninsula of the Bay Area (my wife just said, I want that Bonsai tree ;) -Rick E.

Hi please test kef reference 3 meta

Like button smashed immediately when I heard the Skee-Lo lyrics :)

Thanks for your story on the LCD-XC, very heartwarming, great tips on the after market cables and headband. I am a hardworking factory worker in Canada who loves audio and it is my dream to have the LCD-XC cans and the carbon fibre headband along with the Audeze premium cable assembly available in their website which i previously had not looked into. I'll make sure to burn them in for the time necessary to get the full sound out of 'em. Have a good day.

I got my hip dac 3 for $135. Loving its performance so far! The setup I'm planning for: Dragonfly Cobalt / Hip DAC 3 + Sony's MUC-M12SM2(3.5mm) / NB1(4.4mm) + Sennheiser ie200 + possibly an adapter for ie200

I wish they make native 2-pin cable.

I think you will find that these ceramic fuses are filled will a sand like material and that keeps the fuse element from vibrating .

I've got a question for you if I may.. I'm a believer cables are often the biggest culprits of a heightened noise floor. Therefore, I would like to know when pressing pause or mute, are you able to differentiate whether the systems on or off?

Stunning artistic setup 😍

I would like to propose an experiment… run a sinewave sweep and record through the line out of you gear, with and without the device plugged at 192khz 32bit. Later pass the recorded file to an fft analizer to see if there is any real difference between the files.

Nakamimichi decks are out of this world! I started hunting for a Nak deck 15 years ago. Always wanted one when l was a student but couldn’t afford it of course. So 15 years ago bought myself a CR1 and learnt to service it from forums. Had to buy an oscilloscope and a bunch of test tapes including take up torque tape. Having changed the belt and tuned the deck l was astonished at how good prerecoded cassettes can sound. Analogue magic. And then wondered how a higher end Nak could sound. So l then got myself a Bx300 and ditto serviced , tuned, and caliibrated it. Belts were from Marrs, USA. Holy molly….l was in heaven with even better sonics and the recordings even on lowly TDK D ferrics were awesome. For some reason recordings made from CDs sound even better than the CDs. Warm and lifelike for lack of better words…. Cut a long story short now l also own two 480 decks, a 680zx, an RX505 ( what a beauty this baby is), a ZX9 and yes a CR7A (the best recording deck in my books with its computerised autocalibration). The ZX9 records very good too but the manual metered calibration 400hz and 15khz when measured on the scope can be slightly off as you are relying on the segments on the VU meter. Using a scope makes the ZX9 spot on accurate setting tape voltage levels vs source 400hz and 15khz but the CR7 does it with just a push of a button.

Beautiful babies

you have interconnect Kimber? Sorry to say that this one is the worst. Ihave a Kimber silver and black makes a big difference. Look them up By the way, you have nice system my first receiver was Sony. I throw trash. I’m like you I learned the last stuff too I went up to Mark Levinson to krell auto research and more

Looking forward to the new stuff!!!

you really hate me when I say this..... probably the old fuse had some problems....

this is pure OCD and AUTISM

$60 for a tiny USB cable, seriously? Any cable made to spec would perform exactly the same. USB is all digital, so your hardware either can make out the ones and zeroes, or it cannot. Anything that could affect your music would introduce bad artifacts and also corrupt everything else, like file transfer. And since that would be very, very obvious, even the cheapest cables are usually made good enough. Even if you want a nicer cable, they're like $10 for 2 meters, no need to overspend THAT much.

An important issue that I'm pretty sure nobody else has talked about.

GREAT PERFORMANCE FOR A BARGAIN PRICE 🤗😎💚💚💚

They all look super nice, well built, and a good price as well

I'm looking for a Nakamichi cassette deck. I'm glad to see your video to ensure sound performance. Sounds great btw

Amps should come first because you can "trade up" to better gear more easily than you can with speakers. Otherwise, they are of equal importance. Your friends or love interests are happily listening to music in their earbuds.

Interesting videio. Very informatve. One thechical issue. It looks like the the video recording is versaturated.

It’s very interesting that you mention the timbre comparison. I’m currently on the lookout for a good dac, not necessarily portable but preferably usb powered. I’ve had the Mojo 1 for a long time but it’s conked out recently. I want to mostly use my Beyerdynamic Amiron Home full size headphones, and am more attracted by realistic timbre compared to a technically better resolution. What in your opinion is a good dac purely for realistic/ natural/ lifelike timbre, portable or otherwise but usb powered preferably. Thanks in advance!

Your video is very sharp. Is it the camera or good adjustment settings?

Building a vintages Mark Levinson system i have the no 380s preamp no 37 transport no 36 dac now working on no 336 amp

Streamers exchange data with servers using a network protocol named TCP (or equivalent) which guarantees the integrity of data (FLAC format for example). To me, this thing is complete bullshit, sorry.

Two 16 hour days adjusting speaker position? Eeeek

The PS Audio BHK 600 mono amps is fantastic. A BARGAIN compare to competition if SQ is highest priority.. Dealer network will improve sales.

Some reviews said that the synergy between a Mac amp and the Mac CD Player shines when using the Analog outputs.

Burn it in?.?

As for me SR BLUE is nr 1 ! dont know pink and master yet

Wow would love to spend 2 hrs demoing all the awesome gear

Hi kimber cable or nordost ?

Kimber cable or nordost ?

Do you (or any of your subscribers) have experience with this compared to a FMC (Fiber Media Converter) set (like the "10GTek Gigabit Ethernet Media Converter")? In case you're not familiar (like I was before), this uses 2 devices where 1 converts a LAN cable to fiber (removing any noise), which then goes to the 2nd device (with a clean lineair power supply) that converts it back to LAN (which then feeds a noise free signal into your DAC). A set like this incl cables usually costs you about 100 eur (incl cheap LPS). So curious how these 2 options compare, if you need both or if they both do the same?

I like to think of audio equipment as artwork, it makes a statement about the taste of both the designer and the listener just like a painting and it’s viewer.

That's some beautiful gear really feeling the Burmester equipment especially the amp

You're going to love the CR-7A! I love my restored CR-4A after upgrading from my original CR-2a and BX-300.

From my experience, should spend most on speakers.

This video popped up at just the right time. I was about to purchase either sorbothane hemispheres or audioquest q feet for my cd player, but this video got me looking up the vibrapods, and I've ordered some. If they work, I might try some of the vibrocones to add to them too

A chain is only as strong as its weakest element. Looking at your set up it's your speakers. Get yourself a pair of SF Olympicas to catch up.

Greg is a standout guy. I visited the store while vacationing in Vegas. Pretty impressive.

Where can I get the balanced 4.4 cables for Sony MDR-Z1R hearing aid?

I thought u were gonnsa Men At Work - Down Under. U don't like it?

Nothing makes you feel like a pauper more than hi end audio....

I jus got the Douk Audio device a couple od days ago to use with a Berkeley Audio DAC that has no USB input. It works great!!!! By the way, who plays that version of the song you used on your video, What a Difference a Day makes??