akg_ca
Responses from akg_ca
| Time of Day for best Sound Weekend evening time, settled in with a very peaty premium Islay Scotch . LAGAVULIN 16/ year old is my usual go-to to sip yr | |
| Service After the Sale Yep ….. MOON by SIMAUDIO is a top service provider. | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! This is a well-travelled and oft-repeating discussion between opposing camps that has no winner on either side of the trenches . Simply put, it’s an unbridgeable large divide polarizing the cable believers against the cake naysayers , wherein eac... | |
| Fraudulent sale on eBay @roxy54 @thecarpathian +1 ..,,. EBay as a whole provides a good sellers broad forum with generally acceptable favourable results for both sellers and buyers. MY TAKE: So let’s use a rifle instead of a shotgun approach, and let’s restrict all... | |
| Value of a premium Ethernet cable INFLUENCES in brief, premium upgrade cable shielding matters most in the first part , and then to a lesser degree, the connectors and metal materials ( eg silver vs copper Vs hybrid) have their own lesser effects comparatively. = Short answer : ... | |
| Best set-up under $20K Without prejudice to the common sense basic tenet in this crazy hobby, that arbitrary high(er) $$ expenditure targets are no assurance of better audio performance because of (2) below : (1) Big room = big speakers = floorstanders (2) upstream el... | |
| High Frequency Hearing Loss I just hit 71 …. Sheesh. Hearing range degradation is inevitable as we age . I’m still north of 10K into low 11K but down from 12k two-odd years ago. one of my good friends (and ex client ) is a PHD audiologist with a $175,000 audio system ,,,, h... | |
| JW Audio Signature Interconnect - I can't get anyone even to try them @audiojerry …. (1) @stereo5 +1. Kinda nailed it, sir. They are not a popular cable brand and absent a meaningful published sales history . The lion’s share of buyers choose mainstream brands that they can easily pass on by trade or sale. The co... | |
| JW Audio Signature Interconnect - I can't get anyone even to try them Hmmm …. - No ads on HIFISHARK, and Nil / Nada / zip in their sales history too. - No response and no interest yet expressed to your ad here… = a harbinger that appears to be negligible interest in them at best . My take: Last resort (1) suffe... | |
| How is Quality and Customer Service defined in the 21st Century? An example of unparalleled custom service is still out there.For example’ (1) my REGA ISIS VALVE cdp/ DAC has two matched serial number laser units reserved for you at REGA. “ … Those worried about the viability of the CD format and getting you... | |
| Tune of the Day U2’s “Beautiful Day” - by Il Volo live https://youtu.be/nRwHLPZxrxo?feature=shared | |
| Do CD Transports benefit much from upgraded power cords? @coralkong: “ … IN GENERAL, the nicer the CD player, the better the unit responds to a nicer cord… My take: Yep …. Big time …. @coralkong = No truer words can be spoken here . | |
| HT Receivers Compared @tony1954 “… I had the Cambridge Audio CXR200 and replaced it with an Anthem MXR 520 in order to implement a home theatre bypass setup. Both were good for what they did, but if you are thinking they will work as the centrepiece of a high qualit... | |
| HT Receivers Compared Before I moved into three discrete high-end (2 / 3 / 2 ) channel YBA power amps and a discrete all-digital 7.1 AV preamp/ processor in my HT, I had at AVR history of options based on my evaluations fuelled by two separate drivers: -(1) AVR Audio ... | |
| Lumin L1 ethernet cable upgrade Short answer…. YES. I had them”usual” STAPLES grade CAT7 thinking that’s as good as it gets . I was not happy . So I upgraded to a CARDAS CLEAR and Avanti Audio Vivace CAT7 Ethernet Cable. MY TAKE:: (1) A clear and unambiguous step,up, in digi... |