celtic66
Responses from celtic66
| Best floorstanders under $600 Assumed used, Totem Arro. | |
| Inexpensive starter system What Wrtickle said. Can't go wrong and it will sound better than 90% of what is out there. | |
| Can you get "bookshelf sound" from a floorstander? I know the sound. I spent considerable time with Audio Physics floorstanders and found them to do the disappearing act better than any other floorstander I've heard. Of course they do the very slim line cabinet thing to accomplish this. They get t... | |
| cd recorder vs. computer burner I've done the comparison burning at 4X vs 24X and on my computer it does make a difference. I think the stand alone burners usually sound better because of their slow burn times which produce fewer errors. | |
| How much improvement with better toslink cable? What Buff said. Don't understand why Toslink is so quickly discarded as I've heard it sound superior to coax on more than one occassion. | |
| cheap high quality power strip Signal Cable. | |
| Who's modded modified speaker's cross -over? I've never modified a speaker crossover, however I've upgraded the crossovers of 15 pairs of speakers over the years. I've used Panasonic metallized film or Solen capacitors of equal value for the caps pulled. Once I used Auricaps, but they tend t... | |
| Best Albums Of 2008 Congratulations Timbrepitch, I don't recognize a single artist on that list. Must not be Jazz, Blues, Celtic or Classical. Must be one of them myopic lists. | |
| Mark Knophler; recommended music?? Chet Atkins/Mark Knopfler "Neck and Neck" | |
| benifits of reclocking I don't want a cat's ass in my transport. However, I did have a SuperClock 3 installed in my Audio Refinement Alpha player with great results......until the cheapo mechanism crashed and nobody could fix it even with a new transport. It did sound f... | |
| Harbeth HL-5 or Dynaudio special 25 Dynaudio 25. I and a friend took the Harbeth HL-5 home one day and hooked them up to custom built tube preamp and DAC feed by a highly modified Parasound 2000 transport all fed into VTL monoblocks and they were less than impressive. Midrange was v... | |
| Canadian or US made monitors for about $500 Used Coincident TRS Triumph, Paradigm Studio 40, Totem Mites or Arro. | |
| Bass, more or less? I believe the room has EVERYTHING to do with bass support, absorption and deflection. I traveled for eight years as a contractor living in extended stay suites and setting up small systems. It was amazing how well most of these sounded considering... | |
| How far, how much? Rega 5. | |
| Clarity Caps vs Kimber kaps Why not mention Auricaps? |