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Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate and Jon Hein Visited Today

Michael Fremer  |  Jul 5, 2012

Howard Stern Show producer Gary Dell'Abate and Stern show staffer Jon Hein stopped by today with a video crew of eleven. I took them on a "tour" of my listening room and we talked vinyl vs. CD. Then they sat down and we did some LP/CD comparisons.

Guess which sounded better (and I've got here now the best D/A converter I've ever heard).

When the listening was over they described on camera what they heard. Of course they heard it through a system clearly not in their listening experience (or mine, frankly—I've got the big Wilson XLFs here for review).

From the other side of the camera it looks like this.

So what did they hear in the LP/CD comparisons (levels matched with an SPL meter)?

They heard what you hear!

Can't talk now about what's being done with the footage.

COMMENTS
ukiro's picture
Submitted by ukiro on Thu, 2012-07-05 14:27

Would love to see this once released. And I know we're on Analog Planet now, but is the DAC by any chance the Weiss Medea+?

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Submitted by Michael Fremer on Thu, 2012-07-05 19:17

It's the MSB Platinum Diamond DAC IV.

randy's picture
Submitted by randy on Fri, 2012-07-06 08:44

Very cool, Michael. That had to be fun...

Listens2tubes's picture
Submitted by Listens2tubes on Sat, 2012-07-07 16:56

This should be part of you next video. Hope you can point us to at least a teaser.

Dinoluna2001's picture
Submitted by Dinoluna2001 on Thu, 2012-07-12 14:17

Sure hope this gets a shout out from Howard as I would guess a vast majority of his target audience is vinyl impaired so to speak.

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Submitted by fcatana on Mon, 2012-07-16 05:17

Based on the comments to this article so far, it seems that there is more than a handful of audiophiles in Howard's army of fans. Since the Techno Beaver is an audfiophile himself, I hope he was impressed by your demo. Michael, I would love to see you interviewed by Howard one day.Thanks for the work you are putting in this wesite and for all the interesting information you share with your readers. 

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