big_greg
Responses from big_greg
| Is OPPO worth the inflated price? My BDP103 sounded better played through my Auralic Vega DAC than the BDP105D played straight to my preamp. I have also owned a Modwright modded BDP-95 an Oppo HA1 headphone amp and now have a UDP203 that replaced the BDP103. I don't think I've h... | |
| Selling Meridian System Look them up on hifishark and click on the tab showing past sales. | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Led Zeppelin I on Qobuz. | |
| Is OPPO worth the inflated price? I wouldn't worry too much about the warranty, I have not heard of any widespread issues and I've owned 5 Oppo units and all worked flawlessly. I just don't think they are worth 3-4 times what their retail price was, that's just stupid. | |
| No love for 70's guitar bands? Something I thought about is that in my youth I was more into "hard rock" and had a disdain for "pop" or "mellow" artists. As I've grown older I still enjoy blasting some AC/DC or Judas Priest, but I've opened up to some things that I wouldn't ... | |
| Lets replace my Klipsch La Scala Speakers Those are huge speakers for that room. I’ve listened to La Scalas in a large sound treated dealer showroom and they hurt my ears. I like and own a lot of klipsch speakers, but don’t care for the La Scalas. I think the recommendations to downsize t... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Police - Ghost in the Machine and Zenyatta Mondatta. It was arresting. | |
| No love for 70's guitar bands? I don't know how "relevant" these bands are today, but they are the stuff of my youth. I was a little more into AC/DC, Judas Priest, Krokus, UFO, Scorpions, Led Zeppelin and the like, but listened to and saw my share of more pop oriented bands li... | |
| CD ripper Foobar2000 does a nice job of ripping CDs and also works on your computer. Agree about ripping to FLAC (not DSD). | |
| Advice Please On Subwoofer Choices For My Secondary System. What's the size of your room? If it's not too large, I'd suggest adding about $100 - $150 to your budget and look at a small sealed sub, a couple I would check out are Rythmik's L12 or SVS SB1000 or a used SVS SB12-NSD. I picked up a SVS SB12-... | |
| What are you streaming tonight? I'm listening to DRIFT Episode 2 “ATOM” on Tidal this morning with headphones. | |
| What are you streaming tonight? Hard to go wrong with Alan Parsons Project. | |
| What are you streaming tonight? A hi-res remaster of Whitesnake's Slide It In on Qobuz. Don't ask me why. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Some hometown boys - Girl Trouble - New American Shame. | |
| Tom Petty "Best of Everything" HD download I got so caught up in the emotion of listening to so many great songs that have been a part of my life for so long that the thought "hey, these sound compressed!" never occurred to me. |