arcticdeth
Responses from arcticdeth
| Extra power or cleaner power? my years in here, reading, learning, being told things, what to expect. use your ears, i was always under the impression of lowest THD, IMD, etc etc was most important, not true, let your ears guide you. I learned my lesson.....once i heard the Ca... | |
| Floor standing speaker recommendations new or used, $10,000 and under 10K....??.... you have quite a huge catalogue to look through. Happy hunting and have fun. I loved the hunt and demoing many speakers.enjoy ! | |
| upgrade Dynaudio Special 40 to Kef Reference 1 Upgrade Dynaudio?really?those two words are oxymorons when used for Dynaudio, Maybe trade in for another Dynaudio pair, KEF , is by no means a slouch,dynaudio,....are an amazing speaker, etc good luck, let your ears be the judge. | |
| What are you using to drive your Tektons? WISH I had a pair of the behemoths.years back, tekton. Had those massive 15” on bottom, and the midrange and tweeter array on sale for an amazing price. I decided to use my saved $ for a pair of monos.no regret! Wish I had those tekton, hell yes!w... | |
| What do you do with your old LP's that don't meet your quality standards. The ones that don’t pass my audio/visual test, are put in their jackets,,and cracked in half and put in trash. | |
| Megadeth New Compilation Most cd releases these days are compressed and very loud. Worst ones I bought were the scorpions remasters, bought the Japan versions, the treble is so bad, it hurts to listen, I now listen to the much older CDs. | |
| Separates or Integrated? What makes more sense? 10aK ? I would go separates! Integrated is just fine, only reason I went with separates is “statues” monos blocks, preamp, CD player is a high class statement is all. I’ve always been poor, cruddy pay, poor job! Once I started making money, I ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Purchased the joe satriani EP (5 song) record store day US editionlimited to 3500 mine is (1005) cleaned vacuumed, recorded to my computer via damn, I forget,...... anyway,it sounds amazing, recorded to a taiyo yuden cd @8X. Put on iTunes, it soun... | |
| Interesting conundrum Leave the Kismets on for a week+, or longer if you can, do not shut them off, or power them down before a clinical ear test.then compare. The odyssey stuff is very nice sounding. It’s the cousin to Symphonic line amps, which are world class top ... | |
| White Van Speakers ? Friend of mine has had a pair for over 25 years, still work, they even sent him replacement tweeters back in the late 90’s.he brought them to my house years back hooked up to my then Rotel 1090, sounded just fine.he still uses them to this day. | |
| Do you ever have to re-break-in speakers? Absolutely, I needed about 170-200 hours on my speakers before they owned up, even now, after sitting for months at a time, they need a bit of warm up, amps, preamp, CD player, speakers all need break in I have good ears, and I can heara huge diff... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Newest blind guardian 3 cd set. Pits orchestral, and I like it a lot! Totally different as to what I listen too, but it’s relaxing and I’m into it. New found love for classical. Been listening to the classical fm station as well at times. | |
| Does anyone leave their amp and preamp on all the time? No, mine are covered 24/7when I do fire up, I power on the night before, leave them on all day, so when I come home,Friday night or Sat night, they are ready to rumble. When I’m done listening, I power off and unplug them. Amps, preamp, and CD pl... | |
| Bose 901 Thought they sounded good.would I buy them, no, but they were a descent speaker. | |
| Looking for a good speaker for my metal shop. For a shop speaker, go used and inexpensive. Tons of large speakers on eBay.play loudBIC AMERICA has the RTI line.loud and not super expensive, probably best bet, I would not put Maggie’s, or a high quality speaker in a tool & dye shop. Go la... |