chayro
Responses from chayro
| Non mirrored JBL 4312... You start swapping drivers around and you'll never sell them. Just leave them alone and hope for the best. I highly doubt anyone who buys those speakers would hear the difference anyway. | |
| dap amp headphone combo The 7000s are top-quality phones and deserve a good amplifier. The x5 is portable, so that's cool if you need it, although I can't see wearing the 7000s in the subway. But I would really try to get something better like a Woo Audio, or Benchmark. ... | |
| perfect placement for your speakers You should hear the voice totally centered and sharply focused. You shouldn't need absolutely perfect (to the inch) placement to hear that. If you don't, something is wrong somewhere. I assume you are sitting equidistant from both speakers, right? | |
| Upsampling DACs Dave - I think you're unnecessarily limiting your enjoyment by restricting your choices to a certain technology. Years ago, I went into a dealer asking for stand-mount speakers because I thought they were better than floor-standing for some reason... | |
| Learning from him I think we should introduce him to Bo. They can discuss Purist power cords. | |
| Tube Friendly High End "Big" speakers Get the big JBL6600. It is exactly what you want. | |
| Audiogon suggestion box Maybe your idea of trying to negotiate a reasonable offer is his idea of a lowball. When I sell an expensive piece of gear, I'm not interested in flea market bargainers and I wouldn't want someone leaving me negative feedback because I didn't want... | |
| My Parasound A21 review and VS Emotiva XPA I'm glad you like your equipment, but it's very hard to take anyone who uses the word "cuz" seriously. Remember, audio is a journey. You liked the Emotiva yesterday, you like the Parasound today. Tomorrow - who knows? | |
| New Vandersteen oil cooled hybrid amplifiers If they sound better than anything else on the planet, we'll talk about it. Otherwise - what for? I had a freon-cooled Sanyo amp back in the 80s when the company was making a stab at high-end mid-fi. It was pretty good. Sold it to a recording stud... | |
| VAC amps and Focal Grand Utopias at $195k a pair Amazing. I have no axe to grind with VAC or Focal, but I thought the sound in there was horrible. It sounded like the bass was being cancelled out and all that was left was a gritty midrange. I tried moving around the room because I thought I must... | |
| If she isn't into the gear, is she into the music? The quality you seek in a partner is that she respects the things you enjoy, whether or not she personally likes them. When the home gets unpleasant, you find yourself home less and less. When you're listening to the hifi, she knows where you are ... | |
| Basis Audio Super Arm 9 Buy one before it goes up again! I'll stick with the Vector for now. Once you get into that amount of money, it's a difficult decision to figure out how to best spend $15K upgrading. New cartridge, new cables, new phono preamp - new speakers? Or t... | |
| NY Audio Show September 26th to September 28th I'm not sure they were vintage Tannoys. Tannoy still makes a number of those big-cabinet coaxials. Frankly, the sound was a bit muddy and juke-boxy, but still comfortable and better than many of those bright, harsh speakers audiophiles seem so fon... | |
| NY Audio Show September 26th to September 28th Charles - no, he wasn't using the Horning. He was showing the Verity Audio speakers. I forgot the model, but I think they were $25K, if that helps. I honestly can't remember what amps he was using, but the TT was TW Acustic, of course. Can't remem... | |
| NY Audio Show September 26th to September 28th Dropped by this morning and it was moderately busy. Some nice things, but most of the sound was boring or just plain bad. Highwater Sound had a very nice room and played tasteful jazz and classical. Jeff Catalano was going on with someone about ho... |