Altmann Tera Player - Page 85  

Just ordered this little player moments ago. Been interested in it for a while. It will join the DX100, C4pro and the Studio V 3rd Ani.

 

Now the wait............

Edited by spkrs01 - 2/3/13 at 10:29pm

Here's more food play:

I have this same conversation with my 4 year old son every day.

"Eat it"
"No"
"Just eat it, it tastes good"
"I don't want to"
"Just try a bit, you'll like it"
"No, it has funny green bits"
"Oh for heaven sake just eat it, you'll like it"
"No, it's too hot"
"Try some and if you don't like it, you can leave it"

He tries some. It's gone in 10 seconds.

If you want to get to the bottom off the Tera Player abilities (if you are seriously considering buying it and not here only to satisfy intellectual curiousity), perhaps it's faster to look for one and to try it or test it yourself rather than to repeatedly demand for test results in a sarcastic way.

Also please have some respect for Charles which used food as a way to explain his design approach of using ears and not charts. He has made subjectively one of the finest players around today so who are you to make fun of his approach.

It's a privilege to have him take time, better spent elsewhere, to come here commenting and answering questions from time to time. I wouldn't be surprised if comments such as these and the overall negative comments that do not further the knowledge of player, destroy any goodwill we have leading him to abandon us.

I agree that tests are good and I look forward to them as much as the next fellow. It'll help me understand my Tera Player better and assist me to match components with it. That said, for me ultimately:

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

 So Skamp is it true that your main problem with the player is based on it's price and that all the owners really enjoy the sound it makes, regardless of the lack of measurements ?

 

 Personally i think the price is very reasonable given that it sounds so good. Top notch CD players cost many thousands, so it's not unreasonable to think that we may see daps in the range of 2-3k in the not too distant future. If they raise the SQ bar to a level similar to those CD players then i would pay the price....after listening of course.... I can't remember the last time i listened to any music with my eyes so the measurements wouldn't be a consideration...  See, the thing is whenever i have purchased based on measurements i have been thoroughly disappointed.

 

Some one recommended the Sansa Clip to me once... bloody awful...

Edited by Sauntere - 2/4/13 at 1:51am

Be patient to read my story...

 

I didn't know Jadis' designer, I did not know Linn's CD 12 detail design but I know I had more than 10 years (with the Jadis) and 8 years (with the Linn CD 12) ownership.  I did not even bother to looking at the spec but just love the music.  The system was so good that one buyer came in to my home 2 years ago (when I was trying to sell my CD12 to him) and at the end he took my whole system away...the music did the magic.  

 

I had the luxury, before the time I acquired the Jadis (JPS2S+JA100), to have different dealers lend me Audio Research, Krell, Jadis (can't remember another Italian brand valve amp) to test out at my home and ultimately I've found the valved amp performed the best (against the Krell that I used to have, Class A amp).  I did not even looking at the advertising leaflets that they gave me but to determine which one is best for me, with my ears.

 

Absolutely correct that no one would ever know the chemical result for plugging one device with another equipment and what the end result would come out until you've tried.  I went through this journey many many times over the course of 10 years that I owned my previous systems with different power cords, but not inter-connectors nor speaker cables (as I've got it right the very first time, lucky me).

 

Apparently in this forum, a lot of fellow head fiers owned multi devices and earphones.  With their collections, I bet not every combination would work as well as the other ...you win some and loose some.  This is one addiction of this hobby...there are always be variables.  

 

Whether you trust Charles or not, any other brand designers, 3rd party reviewers, it is not important.   Reviewers can only review equipment with the system that they owned.  Each component plugs into ones system generates different result and, it needs to suit the reviewer's taste.  The reviewer's reports just for leisure reading to occupy our hi fiers' time, nothing more.  Ultimately, what you'd hear and it counts...as the only performance begins at the time you plug that new acquisition into your "system" and play...where music starts.   

 

Before I decided on the TP, I spent weeks on the AK 100 forum to go through those hundred of pages and...came up with one opportunity in December...I spent 2 hours testing out my Sony PCM D50 against the AK100, side-by-side, with the same songs, over and over again, and decision was made... I've then move on [from the AK100 forum]...to make time for my music while awaiting the TP delivery.

 

Hope you'd enjoy more music rather than visual charts.  That would make you a happy person.

Nice Home gear!!!

 

I think the name of the Italian tube amps is Unison Research. The Linn CD12 was quite an exceptional player, I never owned it but heard it many times. I was a Burmester 969/ 970 user at that period in time.

 

I agree totally, music is an art for the individual?!

 

 

 

Edited by spkrs01 - 2/4/13 at 3:29am

Skamp you have probably been asked before... have you ever listened to the TP ?   Until you have and you can say that in your opinion it sounds terrible or great, and explain the sound (as others have done) anything you say just comes across as belligerent negativism.. Lets say the measurements come back as bad but the player sounds great to all who use it, what then ? I mean who really cares since we buy these things for musical enjoyment. 

Not exactly buy it , you can try to borrow one or measure one so to speak, hearing doesnt necessitate buying