Sure! Try www.bol.com

Good luck!

Han

Ok she's from Groningen, right....   
Ok sings in English,

But she's a wonderful singer songwriter with a jazzy touch

Her name is "Leine", go listen!

Then after that try "Wende". Same description applies, sings in English, not from Friesland but wonderful still!

 

Han

Another Frisian singer is Jan Tekstra. Made a wonderful album called; "Blijf"

And Jan made an album in the Frisian language called "Keale Ferskes"

http://www.bol.com/nl/s/muziek/zoekresultaten/Ntt/jan+tekstra/Ntk/music_all/Nty/1/N/3132/Ne/3132/search/true/searchType/qck/index.html?_requestid=268671

I think you'll love it, enjoy!

Han

Thank you so much for all your kind advise!

Gonna plough trough these advises over and over but I guess that "the proof of the pudding is in the eating" so to speek. I'll keep you informed about my findings in the new situation.

The main issue and answer is that with a bigger amp problems can be solves if they occur! Hmm, did one of you ever take a look at the NAT Transmitter monoblocks? They deliver 120 W pure class A Single ended.... Nice pair!

I'll try to get my mortgage a bit higher!

Thanks again, regards,

Han

Thnx Telstar!
I saw your computer has similar specs. Does it work out allright for you?
Regards, Han

Hi folks

Here i am again. The ignorant computer dummy. I'm plannning to have a computer build with the specs that follow underneath. The idea is to have a double-boot function, that's why 2 ssd's will be build in, in order to have one dedicated for XX-high end and one for all other multimedia stuff.
The 8 TB HDD drive comes in a seperate case.

Does this make sense to you, IT whizzards out there? Main goal is to have XX playing as good as possible!

Mobo  GIGABYTE GA-P55-USB3 1156
Videocard  AMD Radeon HD6870 1024MB HDMI / 2x DVI / DP-mini
Memory  8GB 4x2048MB DDR3 1600 MHz dual channel
CPU Koeler  IKBENSTIL 1210 High End Cooling
CPU  Intel Core i7 870 2.93Ghz Quadcore met Hyper Threading
Powersupply  Seasonic 500 watt 82+   
HDD OS Mediacenter  OCZ Vertex 120GB  snelheid: 285/275MB/s 
HDD OS XXhighend  OCZ Vertex 120GB  snelheid: 285/275MB/s   
Sound  output to DAC
Optical  Samsung Bluray player CD DVD brander
TV tuner  2x ANYSEE DVB-C voor Ziggo digitaal (dual tuner setup)
OS  Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit UK of NL volledig geïnstalleerd
 
Thanks in advance for all your replies! Han

Peter,

I'm planning to trade in my Weiss Minerva for the Weiss 202 but of course i am very eager to test your DAC too. So i have the same question for you, is it possible to audition the NOS DAC and when are you able to deliver a "commercial" version? 

Regards, Han

Hi everyone!

It's quite a thing, getting this ridiculously expensive Pre-amp out of my system.... But since a few of you guys out there, claim that it is the only way to purity (and yes, getting a part out of the chain should be purer) i gave it a try.

My NAT Utopia pre is very very natural because of the very few elements in the signalpath but there is a difference indeed. My sound is even more open, bit more stage and so on. Seems to be a good step. But this experiment leaves me with one question and i hope that one of you can give me some answers. My listeningroom is quite small right now (30 square meters) but it will shortly be much much bigger (over 100 sq. m. and some 4m high). The outputlevel  (volumewise) from my 92 Db Kaiser Kawero's  is just ok for now (i mean it plays just loud enough), with the pre-amp i could blow my windows away.

I wonder if this setup will be able to play loud enough for the much bigger room

And second is there a way to digitally manage the volume or would for example the Weiss 202 DAC solve this "problem" because of it's volume knob and the 4 coarse settings?

Hope that someone can help me out. If so, i have a qwonderful pre-amp for sale.....

Thank you in advance!!

Han

THNX so far!

My hardware dealer claims that Apple builds-in certain software called RDP with which you can "take over" the desktop of your mediaserver (or any other server of course). Have you tried this?

Greetz!

Does anyone out there have any experience on Peter's suggestion to put an I-pad in a home-network via WIFI to control XX-High End?

My hardware dealer is convinced that it should work but I would be very glad if one of you can comfirm that...

Regards,

Han

Dear Manisandher,

I was in Munchen too and had a similar experience. Ok there were a few very fine rooms, the Tidal room for example was special but such a system should sing only because of the fact that it was that big and really really expensive. In the afternoon I met my dear friend Rainer Weber from Regensburg. We had an appointment on Friday and after visiting the show we drove to Regensburg to have a listening session in his dedicated and fully treated listeningroom. It was the second time I was there and for the second time I was blown away.

We listened to a setup of the Kaiser Kawero loudspeakers (engineered by Rainer himself) in combination with another extraordinary German product, the Trinity DAC and Trinity monoblocks and the source was a dedicated notebook with XX-High End (of course!!). I can only say: whenever you have the chance to audition this fenomenal setup, don't think twice.... Nothing in the world comes closer to the live acoustic band playing round the corner, I can assure you!

Best regards, Han

Hmm,

This discussion gives me the chance to pose my question about Firewire cables again....

Am I right that even the quality of cables in the digital part are important if we consider SQ?

Anybody experience with Firewire cables maybe? 

Regards, Han

Yes, pity that there is not that much really good musical material on the market. Of course you know the Linn stuff, don't you? Fabulous recordings and of course downloading original masters gives a kick, absolutely immaculate but only a few albums are really interesting....

There is a posibility to get the newsletter from B&W and for someting like 33 euro's a year you can download a lot of hi-res albums, don't know yet if they are worthwhile, keep in touch about that.

There is this Dutch website (www.hifi.nl) with a special music store but that's only redbook format (CD's) and vinyl.

But I think that HD Tracks has the most interesting albums by far.

That's it for today.

See ya! Han

Pfff,

Playing with 9Y-6 with engine 4 for two days now and still flabbergastered... 

Whatever I play, vocal (men, women), instrumental, old stuff (50's, 60's), new stuff, high res (24 bit) it has never sounded as natural and smooooth..... as at this very moment!

This "analog" sound (or should I say "holy grail"?) is all about harmonics I believe and yes it's all there. I've been  , I,ve been  and

Wonderful low region, it's silky smooth in the "mid section" and clear and detailed in the highs but what surprises me the most is that all this warmth an musicality is not at all due to loss in detail and clear- and crispness.

Didn't tune the Q settings untill now, just followed the guys that experimented with that (thnx guys!), can't imagine that it could get much better but nonetheless!

Fabulous work Peter, don't understand what you do, how you do it but fabulous it is! Thanks

Hi Pedal,

Yeah this Chesky stuff is really amazing! Think you must have had a mind (and ear) blowing experience after downloading this 24 bit tracks!

I believe you're into jazz also, when you find the time you listen to the next samples:

Paquito d'Rivera, kind of classical/jazz crossover CD, very nice!
Jimmy Cobb, New York theme and Cobb's Corner. Mainstream jazz, wonderful band, great music and a hell of a "live" feeling!
Same for David Hazeltine, Manhattan.

Sure you will be flabbergastered by the "realness" of these drumkits and that you won't need the linernotes to know where every musician was standing during the recordings!!

By the way, in the meantime I will get my own thrill with Johnny Frigo!

I'll let you hear!!

Best regards, Han