aldenruss
Responses from aldenruss
| Songs & Artists NEVER HEARD on the RADIO? Sounds like the pattern is the same all over the country, I thought it was just the "wasteland" of FM here in the Seattle Tacoma area. I have long given up listening to FM for anything decent, with the wonderful exception of KPLU-Tacoma, which is ... | |
| Triangle speaker- comments In our house right now we have both the original and current version of the Triangle Titus, and they are certainly high quality for the price. Nice-looking, too. I second the comment that with the wrong equipment, they will sound overly lean and b... | |
| The best CD Player for the money If you can find a (now discontinued, I believe) Sony SACD 333ES, jump on it. Add a set of Black Diamond Racing cones underneath, and you've got truly listenable digital sound with the benefit of SACD capability. No, it's not the be-all end-all pro... | |
| The Little Tube Amp That Could? I appreciate the feedback folks, thanks very much. About the Music Reference, are these ever on the Audiogon? I've been hanging around here for a year and a half or so, don't remember seeing too many of these. I'd love to hear from any Cary SLA 70... | |
| Speaker Cables? Just to throw in my 2 cents this morning, about a month ago we upgraded to Silver Sonic Q-10 BiWire cable in 10 foot runs, cost us $310 shipped to the front door from Value Audio, and I couldn't be happier with the sound. We previously used Audioq... | |
| Radiohead read on Radiohead are a fine, fine band, their music both challenging and engaging at once. For Glen, I don't know how you could recommend just one album though, as soon as I had one (I bought Kid A to see what all of the fuss was about) I was on a quest ... | |
| Nirvana on Simply Vinyl Thanks for the posts folks, I've been on a mission to learn about where to get quality vinyl as of late. As a general rule, it seems that online is the way to go if looking for something specific. There is a good local vinyl store here called Turn... | |
| Best Find Ever??? A couple of years ago I was at an estate sale in Tacoma, WA at a nice house in the North End. Amongst all the furniture and stuff there were a pair of wooden speakers labeled "KFF speakers, $30." A quick inspection revealed that they were Kef Refe... | |
| Rate the Audiophile Publications Metaphysics, I hear your point and it's well taken. The thing is, is that even if they are skewed towards the people who advertise with them, I have still learned about this hobby from reading them. For example, I had never heard of either Cary or... | |
| Rate the Audiophile Publications As a reader of Stereophile, TAS and others, and an avid user of the Web, my approach has been to gather information from many different sources as a starting point relying on my own ears as proof. Though the "big guns" may have their weaknesses, I... | |
| Break-in factor rqd for new cd player? There is sure to be a break-in period required for a digital source before it sounds its best. I think it would be difficult to provide a number for all digital products, but certainly 1 or 2 hundred hours is not an unreasonable amount of time. I ... | |
| smoothing those sibilants... Having had the chance to audition some different interconnects here in my own casa, I wanted to post an update, and also respond to a couple of other posts. First, I got to try (and am using for reasons financial) some low-end Cardas, which althou... | |
| Need interconnect advice Although I qppreciate the post, I too could find very little information for this company. Wouldn't it be great if it were true, but the "maufacturer's site" was either down or not responding to my requests (the site was found using a Google searc... | |
| smoothing those sibilants... For "albertporter", the Antique Sound is all tube, 2x15 (pentode) or 2x5 (triode) using KT88's for the power tubes, and 12ax7's for the input/driver tubes. The power tubes have been upgraded to Svetlana KT88's (thank you to Stewart at Sanctuary of... | |
| smoothing those sibilants... The first changes have been made, and I think I'm on to something. A friend has lent me a pair of Cardas cables, which has made a none-too-subtle difference. At first I thought that the system sounded "darker", but some careful listening is reveal... |