chrismini
Responses from chrismini
| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Velvet Underground and Nico. | |
| RF Chokes/Ferrite Beads, do they have a place in your system? You can destroy the transfer rate of a digital cable with the benign placement of a ferrite to lower RF. Maybe on the output cable of a switching power supply. However most manufacturers already have them. Bottom line it's a lot easier to do harm ... | |
| spend on the streamer or on the DAC ? Doesn't matter how nice ones streamer is. This is not a hard question. | |
| Oldest Recordings that sound “audiophile” Miles Davis: Kind of Blue. I know this goes without saying. Been issued and reissued many times, each saying this is the best. Vinyl is the best, but I'm not sure of best quality issue. (question for Michele Fremer) Have it on recent digital reiss... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Roger Waters "Is This The Life We Really Want?". | |
| Your most indispensable "tweak"? I have a CD issued by high-end solid-state amplifier company Ayer Acoustics titled "Irrational, but Efficacious System Enhancement Disc". My dealer, now out of business(owner died), let me borrow it. Never returned it. It has white, pink, and 3 br... | |
| Analog or Digital and why? I'm 60 so I grew up in the bad old days of vinyl records. No one took care of them or we would use a Discwasher which destroyed more records than it cleaned. Instead of coughing up $10 for a new stylus, guys would tape quarters to their headshells... | |
| Analog or Digital and why? I think I already made the point that an analog front end is/will cost a fortune compared to a similar quality digital front end. I've heard nothing but amazing things about PS Audio's DirectStream DAC for $6,000. An really good analog system can ... | |
| Analog or Digital and why? When CD's first came out, there was a disclaimer stating the crappy sound is the result of the crappy analog source. The discs had AAD printed on them that stood for analog/analog/digital. The only full DDD discs were classical recordings. So mayb... | |
| Analog or Digital and why? I'll shut up after this. Analog is also very labor intensive. When you get these expensive records they have to be cleaned with a decent vacuum record machine even before you think about playing it. New records have a substance called mold release... | |
| Analog or Digital and why? Analog is a very expensive option if you want it to be your primary source of music reproduction. Turntable/tonearm/cartridge/phono amp/stand/record cleaning machine and a host of necessary products from stylus cleaner to carbon fiber record brush... | |
| Analog or Digital and why? What has happened in the recording industry is the proliferation of Pro Tools, a software program that allows engineers to record, mix, add effects, etc without touching a mixing console. The Smashing Pumpkins wanted to record an album the old fas... | |
| The wall behind me. ASC Tube Traps are the only thing that kills bass boom. Carpets, drapes and the like will just suck your room dry. Low frequencies are omni-directional. Mids and highs are not. Tube Traps convert bass energy into heat. But they aren't cheap. Go to... | |
| Fake plants behind speakers a good idea? Try some ASC Tube Traps. You know, something that might help. | |
| Fake plants behind speakers a good idea? Uh no. |