aroc
Responses from aroc
| Large Speakers Small Rooms Just shove a Kharma/Tenor/Meitner/WalkerAudio system in a closet. I'm thinking the 3.2 CRM monitors. That should sing in a small room. Cost? About as much as my 1300 sq.ft house. | |
| There is a Santa it's the dood! dood! | |
| The effects of corporate music The problem, for older audiophiles especially, is that a lot of the new developments aren't in traditional rock genres; they're in electronica. Which they ain't' 'gonna listen to. | |
| How often to Audiophiles upgrade their equipment? Slappy, life would be boring if my system were immortal. Somehow I connect better with my system knowing that it, like me, dies a little more each day. Tubes wear out and so does the vinyl after each play. Having that human connection with it all ... | |
| Speakers you regret selling Don't regret selling the Maggies, Ozzy? You were using VSA VR2s last, now? | |
| Speakers you regret selling None. I don't want any of them back. Had Eosone RFS-600s, then Wharfedale Emerald 97s, then Acoustat Model 3s. I like what I have now much better. | |
| Home brew cleaning solution RRL is supposed to bead up. That is what you want. It helps make your vacuuming all the more effective. | |
| Refined 30-60 watt Tube amp 45 watts on 94dB speakers is a lot of power. I know they are 6 ohm (? nominal), but damn. That's a lotta power. There are lots of low-medium power (not flea power) SETs that sound more power than they are. It might be due to the serious iron a lot... | |
| new gear vs used gear used,mint cond,less then 50%retail, nuff said....... ...... ..... in what other hobby can you get gear that looks and operates like new (no scratches, no nicks, original manual, box, sales receipt, packing material), for less than 50% off of retai... | |
| Refined 30-60 watt Tube amp i would consider a 845-powered Viva tube amp. about 26wpc. | |
| Tube power amp - keep on continually? Yep topvideo, that's probably the sound of the glass contracting as it cools. Similar to an aluminum engine block after your shut off your car. tink, tink, tink. except there its the metal. My tubes to the same thing. | |
| Digital Vs. Toslink, your opinion? Real men would use AT&T glass (ST) optical, anyway. I use S/PDIF over coax since it's tough to find decent inexpensive players to use as transports that have anything better, like AES/EBU over XLR, I2S, or I2S enhanced (13W3 connector?), or wh... | |
| sub$500 amp for Magnepan .5QRs I think $500 will only buy you solidstate amps. try NAD, Adcom, Panasonic digital receiver. Next step up might be an integrated amp like a Krell 300i ($1000 used). Sometimes I've seen some McCormack DNA amps go for as low as $600 use on audiogon. | |
| How Much Time do You Surf on Audiogon? Sometime I think a drug or gambling addiction, for me, would be easier to deal with. Aaron | |
| What other obsessions do you have? Computers. Let's just say I have rackmount and a rack at home, eh? |