br3098
Responses from br3098
| Your experience & thoughts on SSDs for MacMini Computer Audio Rule Number 1 (adapted from General Computer Rule No. 2): all drives will fail at some point. If your music collection and/or your time is worth anything to you, it is prudent to backup your music files. | |
| Klipsch Heritage Series Donjr, first - this is probably not the best place to research Klipsch Heritage speakers. Go to the High Efficiency Speaker forum on AA, or for a more biased point of view look to the Klipsch Community website.I like vintage speaker designs such a... | |
| VPI Aries versus VPI Classic Well, everyone has different taste. Or, as the cannibal said "everyone tastes different!"Certainly, dealers have an interest in promoting what they have to sell now, as opposed to many years ago. And, frankly, if it were me and I was listening to ... | |
| VPI Aries versus VPI Classic I have owned both (but now neither), and was able to play them side-by-side with the same cartridge for some months. To my ears, it was no contest - the Aries 1 (w/ the original heavy platter) was the better of the two, by a large margin.I was sur... | |
| Audio Desk Vinyl Cleaning System Gents,Sorry, I should have clarified that my little rant ("...audio jewelry) was in response to Thuchan's note on the LR1 unit, not the AudioDesk.But the reports about the poor reliability of the Ultrasonic cleaner are disappointing. I have though... | |
| David Yee Tube amps? Are you are talking about the inexpensive Canadian amps that are often listed on eBay? I have seen the listings and almost pulled the trigger more than once, just out of curiosity. But an acquaintance of mine bought one and claims it was a cheap p... | |
| Nottingham Spacearm rewiring I wouldn't rewire this arm for sound performance reasons. The stock wiring is very, very good. I doubt that the Discovery, AN or Cardas cable would make a substantive difference.I do know some guys who have elected to rewire Nott arms for utility ... | |
| Conrad Johnson PV-12A - Remove Phono Board? I would advise against this. You can purchase a better phono unit than the PV-12A's phono section very reasonably. And your PV-12A is worth more with the phono stage than without it. | |
| Opinions on what to upgrade first; speakers or DAC I will take great speakers and an adequate source over a great source and only adequate speakers any day. Speakers first! | |
| Why Would a Turntable Need More than 1 Arm ? I would love to have a universal turntable with three arms - one for stereo LPs, one for mono LPs and one for 78s. Unfortunately, that would require too many compromises. But a two arm deck is fairly easy to do.Is that showing off? | |
| Audio Desk Vinyl Cleaning System Does the world really need another piece of audio jewelry disguised as a record cleaner? Where should I put it - next to my Porsche design stainless steel and lucite hand mop?This looks like an interesting way to clean records. But, based only on ... | |
| my peachtree decco experience, your upgrade advice I will second Loomisjohnson's recommendation. Try using the Decco as a preamp/DAC in front of the power amp of your choice. In my office, I have paired the Decco with a tube amp and it works very well. For use in an HT setup, it might be a bit mor... | |
| Anybody tried KT120 tubes on Conrad Johnson amps? Sparky, not to sound argumentative; but I do not think that upgrading the caps in an amp is the same as swapping a non-spec'd power tube. Capacitor technology has improved significantly in the last 30 years, and there is little to no risk in repla... | |
| Anybody tried KT120 tubes on Conrad Johnson amps? This does not directly answer your question, but when I owned a Premier 11A the previous owner had been using KT-88s. He thought that they sounded great but wondered why he kept blowing fuses and why the tubes needed frequent biasing and replacing... | |
| Heresy II upgrades? Macdadtexas,Have you listened to the Heresy II? Rebuild or replace the crossovers, but IMHO I don't think that the upgrade to III's will buy you all that much.Now, if you are talking about rebuilding your IIs into CS-1s - that's a whole different ... |