reeltrouble1
01-12-2007, 05:54 PM
You see a while back, oh, a bit shy of a year ago, I passed my Denon 2900 to another member and good friend. Now I replaced it as my primary digital source in the Shed with a source piece retailing for 6.5 times more than the Denon, although the 2900 did me an excellent job on high rez formats like many others Redbook just did not do it for me, at least the gap between the two formats was rather large for me. The new source was indeed much beyond (and should of been) the Denon and I was more or less a happy camper, except..........
Well, from the moment it left I missed this piece, not unusual for me to miss a favored piece of gear, but normally the feeling fades and I move on. Still, though this one lingered, so much that when one became available a while back I snatched it. You see, I missed hearing my DVD-A collection in the Shed as my new source did not do this format, I have many more SACD than DVD-A but some of my favs in high Rez DVD-A are Queen, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Sinatra and so on, so I hooked the 2900 up in the Shed Rig and let her rip with a DVD-A........................
Err..............what happened, not doing it, sure it was OK, pretty good, but this was a 2900, a piece I remembered taking me there with high rez, but the overall presentation was just not there, grain, edgeiness, mids seemed flat, no space around the instruments, dammm............pop in an SACD, same thing, Redbook............worse.............sheeze....... ...
So there she sat, pretty much in standbye and the DVD-A's went back to the Reel Time Rig, no slouch by any means, but, two different rigs and the RTTR is more subject to volume control correction by my best friend and all that.
So I see the Musical Fidelity Tube Buffer has a special deal at 299.00, now this is one my favorite companies, they build no junk, only top notch to hi-fi, plus I get the 30 day return if its not going to do it for me..............
Cut to the chase................its staying, with either high rez format in the Shed the Tube Buffer does it, now its not the Tri-Vista, which lets me hear a bit lower down and has more air in this Rig and blacker background, but its pretty close, so much so its earned a shelf in the Woodshed Rig, the strings opening Hotel California ring true with plenty of space, I can close my eyes and see them vibrating, the bass run in The Chain (Fleetwood Mac) again gets me in the gut and lower. Count Basie, one o'clock jump is detailed yet smooth. The edges are gone. Redbook, well, I will play that from the Tri-Vista, but the DVD-A's will stay in the Shed and provide many hours of enjoyment through the Denon/MF Tube Buffer combination.
If you want to try it, nows the time, for 299.00 guaranteed or return for your dough this might be something for you. The piece includes one unbalanced input pair one standard output pair and a tape loop output, the tape loop output is a straight shot from the source. MF has used the same tube set as found in the Kw series on this model. Hell, I, might buy another one.
RT1
Well, from the moment it left I missed this piece, not unusual for me to miss a favored piece of gear, but normally the feeling fades and I move on. Still, though this one lingered, so much that when one became available a while back I snatched it. You see, I missed hearing my DVD-A collection in the Shed as my new source did not do this format, I have many more SACD than DVD-A but some of my favs in high Rez DVD-A are Queen, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Sinatra and so on, so I hooked the 2900 up in the Shed Rig and let her rip with a DVD-A........................
Err..............what happened, not doing it, sure it was OK, pretty good, but this was a 2900, a piece I remembered taking me there with high rez, but the overall presentation was just not there, grain, edgeiness, mids seemed flat, no space around the instruments, dammm............pop in an SACD, same thing, Redbook............worse.............sheeze....... ...
So there she sat, pretty much in standbye and the DVD-A's went back to the Reel Time Rig, no slouch by any means, but, two different rigs and the RTTR is more subject to volume control correction by my best friend and all that.
So I see the Musical Fidelity Tube Buffer has a special deal at 299.00, now this is one my favorite companies, they build no junk, only top notch to hi-fi, plus I get the 30 day return if its not going to do it for me..............
Cut to the chase................its staying, with either high rez format in the Shed the Tube Buffer does it, now its not the Tri-Vista, which lets me hear a bit lower down and has more air in this Rig and blacker background, but its pretty close, so much so its earned a shelf in the Woodshed Rig, the strings opening Hotel California ring true with plenty of space, I can close my eyes and see them vibrating, the bass run in The Chain (Fleetwood Mac) again gets me in the gut and lower. Count Basie, one o'clock jump is detailed yet smooth. The edges are gone. Redbook, well, I will play that from the Tri-Vista, but the DVD-A's will stay in the Shed and provide many hours of enjoyment through the Denon/MF Tube Buffer combination.
If you want to try it, nows the time, for 299.00 guaranteed or return for your dough this might be something for you. The piece includes one unbalanced input pair one standard output pair and a tape loop output, the tape loop output is a straight shot from the source. MF has used the same tube set as found in the Kw series on this model. Hell, I, might buy another one.
RT1