celtic66
Responses from celtic66
| 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? | |
| Budget floorstanders under $500 ? The Mission M72 is a much better speaker in regards to your observations of bass. I took a pair and Frankenstein-ed them with Auricaps, Audioquest Type 6 wire and rope caulked all of the corners and they were monsters considering I only paid $200 ... | |
| Schematics for PSB crossovers ? I've upgraded 15 pairs of box speakers and never had a dud. Just take the pics AND hand draw a wiring diagram of the wiring and caps. DO ONLY ONE SPEAKER AT A TIME and then test it for operation. Use silver solder, decent speaker wire and don't sp... | |
| American-made integrated tube amplifiers Decware from Illinois I believe was not mentioned. | |
| Benchmark DAC Benchmark is fairly detailed, but a decent NOS dac will smoke it for overall musicality delivering better vocals, acoustic piano while matching its detail. Head to Head with an Audiosector/Audio Zone for example it's no contest. | |
| What could I expect to hear from a Class A amp? My Sugden compared to many other fine A/B amps I've owned is much quicker, open with very solid bass. Vocals and acoustic piano and bass are particularly well delivered. | |
| Seeking opinions of C.Crane FM Reflect Antenna Great unidirectional antenna. Beats my Fanfare in that way. And for around $25, it's a no-brainer. | |
| Parasound CBD 2000 Transport A DAC with the Pacific Microsonics chip will decode the disc as HDCD. The transport I owned had quite a bit of Black Gate work and power section modification which really opened it up. Best transport by far I've ever heard. Now resides in a system... | |
| How to reduce power supply noise. I've defeated all of the grounding plugs in my power cables with great results. | |
| which is your favorite inexpensive stereo system? Used Arcam Solo Mini ($650), Mission 72M speakers ($200), the balance for speaker cables, stands, Reflect FM antenna and microbrew. Solo Mini sounds noticably better with the hood up. Remove the casing and it's more open sounding. Weird, huh? | |
| Parasound CBD 2000 Transport I've owned a highly modified version of this as transport only. It was wonderful, yet did not play burned CDs consistently. Will play HDCD as a Redbook disc unless used only as a transport into a DAC with the HDCD chip. Never cleaned the lens. Any... | |
| Rega P25. Getting radio signals thru interconnects That's an option you usually have to pay extra for. |