carl_eber
Responses from carl_eber
| Avante Garde horn speakers..... Frequency amplitude response isn't the only way to measure a speaker. The "speed" aspects refer to the transient response performance, or how well the woofer's cone can follow the signal it gets fed, and how fast its decay time is. Automatically a... | |
| HiFi dealers & audiophile wife problems You're welcome. | |
| HiFi dealers & audiophile wife problems They are NOT $500, they're only $349, and perhaps Ubid.com carries them, I don't know. You could find used ones on occasion for $200 to $280, or perhaps endeavor to befriend a dealer who'll let you have 'em new for a few dollars over their cost...... | |
| Best A-D converter I think it's the latter; did you try it? | |
| Does it still pay to buy a $3k CD player Dkuipers, you'll forgive me if I don't take your word for it (I don't have to). The SCD-1 has crappy op amps for the analog output stage, and you didn't mention what power cords and conditioning you used, or why you think adding a linestage to the... | |
| What have YOU got? I gurantee that there are no female "audiophiles" out there, that aren't either married to, or dating a guy, that got them "started". | |
| Building Watt/puppy clone The guy at Zalytron has an attitude problem. I like the best soft dome tweeters, like the Revelator and Esotar. | |
| Cables, Interconnects and More Cables??? BMP, you can feel like it was a "synergy thing" if you like, cause I certainly feel that way about the HT, since I've heard them also (at least the intertconnects). I even prefer the cheap Wireworld Atlantis 2 interconnect to the HT Silway 2, and ... | |
| Does it still pay to buy a $3k CD player Joe, if you get one used, then yes. That's what I did, and I want to challenge anyone with an SCD-1 to come by and compare CD playback with my CD50. | |
| speaker specs & room matching You might peruse The Complete Guide to Highend Audio. All I know is, it's not as easy as you say to get smooth and accurate bass, deep or not, that has a fast room modal decay time (try a good test CD, and it'll be obvious). I prefer using a high ... | |
| Cables, Interconnects and More Cables??? MIT Terminator 2. | |
| All cables are Neuteral? Good basic suggestions, Mega. | |
| Acoustic Treatments Don't know why you wouldn't have had luck with it before. It's simple, you just damp first reflection points on every wall, and sometimes ceiling and floor. I enjoy ASC traps, and also use RPG and other foam. My basement is concrete also (not in t... | |
| SF Assemblage ST-40 tube amp? David!!!! Thanks, but I just couldn't live with the weak bass. Apparently ST-40 owners are every bit as rabid about them as Dynaco ST-70 owners are (if not more so), but I'm thinking the ST-40 has more of what I want. | |
| Copying LPs to CDs Well, my experience is the same as Michael Fremer's, and all the other big time experts. If you apply the Stylast correctly to the stylus end only, you don't have to worry about it creeping up into the motor. It never has with mine...there's just ... |