carl_eber
Responses from carl_eber
| My Only Question Is......... Petland, it's obvious that you like the Wadia sound, and I won't try to tell you that you shouldn't. I prefer my top octave to not be rolled off by 3 dB. The volume control in my player is as good as the best volume controls in the best preamps. I... | |
| MP3 players I'm fully aware of how many "modern" pop recordings are made, the varying fidelity notwithstanding. I also know that all the big time mastering engineers still archive on 2 inch analog tape. My assertion was that you'll not see it appear for free ... | |
| Top manufacturers! Krell, Magnepan, Resolution Audio, MIT, VPI, and ASC in that order...for me so far, anyway. | |
| Cables, Interconnects and More Cables??? I thought everybody compared cheap cables with expensive cables...I bet if you stood out in the rain long enough, you'd see why it's better to go indoors... | |
| SPEAKERS FOR MY NEW LISTENING ROOM Buy acoustic treatments first, if you want to hear what's on the recording. | |
| My Only Question Is......... Forgive me if this isn't intelligent enough for you, but you don't buy a Wadia if you want to use a preamp, so why even ask the question? BTW, there are other terrific CD players that can drive the amp directly, and I enjoy mine very much. | |
| Any opinions on Birdand Audio DAC Not having heard one in person, I read a review on Stereotimes.com, I believe it was. That was a totally inept review. I wrote them to complain (because I thought it was particularly glaring in its sillyness)...but of course they never posted the ... | |
| Can speaker cables damage amplifiers? As I recall of a semi-recent Harry Pearson review of a Spectral amplifier, he thought the specified use of MIT cables was total hogwash, and was hell bent on using Nordost Quattro Fil interconnect and SPM speaker cable instead. Said it was the onl... | |
| Does speaker cable length really matter? Never said I had a "predicament", I just don't "play for the team" that'd be interested in such things. "Not that there's anything wrong with that"...blah blah, yada yada. | |
| Can speaker cables damage amplifiers? It's my understanding that if a speaker cable's own charactersitic impedance is too low, that this is what allows the wave to reflect back into the feedback loop of the amplifier. | |
| Sealed vs Vented enclosures Like all else in this hobby, everybody has their favorite, and wonders why anyone else would like something different than their personal ideal. You'll HAVE to make up your own mind through experience, and there are no shortcuts to experience. | |
| speaker specs & room matching You're welcome. | |
| Biggest Sonic Improvement ASC traps. | |
| Can speaker cables damage amplifiers? That's a falacy, mine sound great with my Krell. However, have heard Goertz cables do awful things with it, and perhaps it was oscillation. It certainly was distortion. Why don't you e-mail Krell about it, I'm sure they'll answer you. | |
| Need help : Mit or Cardas? The Transparent Reference I tried were broken in for hundreds of hours, and the Ultra for several thousand. Funny thing about MIT, they sound superb from the get go, and only improve a little after burn in. The series resistor in Transparent cable... |