I’m a bit of a musical gourmand, so this might not be your thing – but if you don’t like blues even a little, man, you’ve got no soul. New songs and covers (I usually hate covers), they’re all great! The quality of the recorded sound is very good. It’s not just the blues you’d expect from these two incredible musicians, but there’s folk, funk, some world beat and rock too. The Taj Mahal/Keb Mo “album” you see covering the JIL above will, I predict, be getting a lot of play at audio shows this fall and winter. Easier still, subscribe to be notified of new posts. But I’ll deal with the Shiit first.įull review coming soon, watch this space. Then there’s the whole D-to-A side of the equation, getting the digits out of the computer and in to my tube gear. I may be frugal, but I’m not cheap – so I’ll buy software if/as needed, but not expensive (>$100) software. I’ll spare you the gruesome details, the minutiae of setting-up and using computers does not interest me in the slightest. See below.Ī CD jacket or jewel case will completely cover the JIL, front level knob and rear jacks included. Compact versions are still available.Īctually, I’ve been Schiitin’ you. At 30, its a fairly inexpensive, yet still pretty capable program. Those that follow Schiit happenings will notice that they’ve expanded beyond their initial line of compact headphone amps, and now offer D-to-A convertors, preamps, power amps and headphone amps in near full-size cabinetry. VinylStudio was designed to be a standalone program for getting your vinyl records onto your computer. If digitizing LPs is desired, connect the output of a phono stage to the JIL. It takes a line level analogue signal (the Parasound would do phono and line), and digitizes at 48, 96 or 192KHz, 24 bits (the Parasound would only do 48KHz, 16 bits). The Schiit JIL described a few weeks ago on the Digital Audio Review site piqued my interest. I almost jumped at a Parasound phono stage/A-to-D converter a few years ago, but dithered too long and it was discontinued. There are a bunch of 25-year-old analogue tapes (cluttering up a closet) that I want to archive before serious deterioration sets it. As long as I’ve dithered over it for an inordinate amount of time, of course. But that doesn’t mean I’m not open to trying something new. If you look at my bio page, it’s apparent that I’m not exactly in the first flush of youth. (P)review…Schiit does A to D in a big way: That’s an LP jacket covering the JIL!
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