My PM-3 headband is still in good shape - any suggestions on how to keep it going? Would an occasional light leather conditioner help? I've used a very small amount roughly yearly.

I own the A70 Pro and am enjoying it a great deal. I use it with my Oppo UDP-205 as a source.

This was a lot of fun and I'm glad to have gone. My wife and I both found it eye-opening. Some key highlights: - Being able to listen to multiple Stax setups - both at the Stax table as well as privately owned. - Finally getting to listen to some Focal headphones - both the Clear and the...

I can't speak for quality or tonality. From a measurements perspective this measured better than the A90D which along with the UI was the reason I purchased it instead. (The price of each were rather similar.)

I agree. As mentioned above I don't have a great deal of reference points but the performance and functionality of this amp is superlative in my opinion. Other than wanting a tube amp in order to kick the tires on tube amps, I feel zero need to even contemplate an alternative "solid state"...

I sadly do not - I am in some ways early into my journey. My primary points of references are a Benchmark DAC-1 and the headphone amp in my Oppo UDP-205. I understand the former to be a competent and well-regarded DAC and AMP, and the latter to be a world-class DAC with a ho-hum amp. Versus...

Before my comments - I'm a newbie :wink: I had a HD650 and an Oppo UDP-205 with a suspicion that the Oppo didn't quite make the most of the dynamics of my Senn. Starting afresh, I landed on the Topping A70 Pro with its (a) slick UI and (b) solid measurements. Anyhow, versus the Oppo's...

I have a set of headphones (Oppo PM-1) that I love that I've long used with the stock unbalanced cables that came with it. So far as I know these are relatively high quality cables -- OCC etc. -- that I presume set a good bar for performance. I've never explored balanced performance since I...

No idea, but I love those old-school honkin' Denon universal players as well.

I've used the Lightning dongle with my Oppo PM-1s connected to an iPhone for a couple of years now. It works great with plenty of punch. I don't have too many other sources to be able to say how much audio performance I've left on the table, but for a smartphone-powered portable solution, this...

Right now, and for some years now, just the one: an Oppo UDP-205. I've loved its versatility as a source player for nearly every format I own, a DAC that as far as I am aware is still stellar, and a decent (?) headphone amp? Being able to hang it off a PC, shuffle it to a room to play some...

I'm curious to learn more about how their products differentiate against something like the very engineering-centric PM-1. There's no local dealer so I'd be curious to learn more about their specific strengths.

Hi everyone! I'm a relatively new owner, having joined the PM-1 party less than a year ago. I had been using a PM-3 (alongside an AirPods Max) as my go-to headphone ever since I bought it when Oppo was shutting down. Like many PM-3 owners, I had wondered about its older and more capable...

This was quite a read. The drama from skepticism about Oppo's insanity attempting to enter this market, to rebuke over the PM-1 price tag, to drama over alleged schemes by the beta testers, to the endless Earpad-Gate and that one dude constantly claiming that nothing outside the transducer can...

As a small matter of irony, it turns out--years later--that the reason why someone who has a PM-1 would ever need a PM-2 earpad is because the PM-2 earpads are the only ones available for purchase now :)

Quote: Originally Posted by memepool Cool. You should post up some of your digitised mix tapes somewhere on the web. I would love to check out all that old skool detroit spinning.... I read a review of the Dragon in an old UK Hi-Fi mag recently from the 90's, the last few years it was...

Well, there's nothing terribly old-school about cassette tapes (old school = reels! ha!) but it does feel like it sometimes. I'm close to the end of the grand project. My journey led me to a Sony KA3ES, then a Nakamichi DR1, then a Nakamichi Dragon and a Nakamichi CR-7A, as well as a Sony...

I miss my old colleague Cavendish... I feel like I'm talking in an empty auditorium here Oh well, it's for posterity... First, I'm very happy with the Dragon. Everything that's been said is true. If you are going to digitize tapes, and are shooting for a "best" reproduction, this is it...

Yeah, I got a few hundred here that honestly I'm never going to listen to again. Some of it was good stuff--old poorly mastered Genesis, Dire Straits, etc. Some of it is just bad--Bardeux, Thomas Dolby, etc. And due to a habit of purchasing "bulk" collections from classifieds and auctions during...

I loved NIN until Trent Reznor became happy. Then, it just wasn't quite the same. How's the new album or his more recent work? Did he get back to the music-to-commit-suicide-by like "Something I Can Never Have" on PHM, or is he getting happier?

If the drive controller logic & interface and the codecs were available in a low-power-consumption package, it might become possible to start assembling a PDAP. I question whether it would be *better* as an overall product, but it certainly could be bigger, bulkier and worse on batteries, but...

Is anyone here an owner of the very first CD player model ever made, or the very first SACD player, or minidisc player, or...? The reason I ask is that we're not *too* far from the dawn of the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray era. I'm curious about what to expect from the first generation of playback models...

Thanks for the links. Yet another thing to explore! Down with the flu for the weekend, I began digitizing in earnest. I found that I get the best overall noise reduction by combining the tape deck (Dragon) Dolby NR with the noise reduction filter in Adobe Audition. The latter works much...

I don't find it boring. Just getting it working took days of work....

I'm pretty sure it's a problem with Audition 1.5, however what that problem could be, I have no idea. Audition is taking the R channel and using it for both L and R when recording. I tried Wavelab Lite (came with the 1212m I think) and that seems to work fine. Which is OK by me, I can use...