danielk141
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| what percentage of us really knows sound I think this is really a good thread.I wanted to play the trumpet in my grade school band.My band leader told me he had enough trumpet players,already. He wanted cornet players. I bought & played the cornet. When we performed a concert in the ... | |
| Sorry, a question about the Sony SCDXA5400ES. Jtnicolosi,Please list your system. It's not much use to recommend you get a fully balanced CD player, if your preamp is single ended.......... | |
| Class D amp wyred4sound and B&W 803D Face,Here's an example of forgiving & reavealing, in a speaker.I had a Sony Transport, Theta DAC, Adcom GFP565, and Parasond HCA1000A amps or Adcom 555s biamping Magnepan MG3.3Rs.The ribbon on the Maggies was the most revealing & deatailed... | |
| Amplifiers:A Keeper for Life. Do you know of one ? My Rowland Model 2.My Pass Aleph 2s. | |
| CD and SACD player under $500 Mark,I just bought the Oppo BDP-83 Blue Ray Player. It replaced my Sony SCD-777ES SACD/CD player & my Arcam DV-29 DVD player. Both these players retailed at around $3K new.This Oppo sounds noticeably better than my Sony, on both SACD & Red... | |
| Pass amps + Power Cords ?? I've had very good sound with Cardas, Platinum power, and various BMI power cords on my Pass X150.5, Aleph 2s, Aleph 60s, Aleph 30, and Aleph 3.I disagree on the X350.5. If this amp has no negative feedback like the original X350, I prefer the X15... | |
| Best Amp to drive my Apogee Stages? 1. The Rowland Model 5 & Model 7s are getting old.I don't believe Rowland will want to support or repair them indefinitely. Older Model 5s & Model 7s have been through many thermal cycles - being turned on & off. The output transistors... | |
| Best Amp to drive my Apogee Stages? Please give more info on your system.If you're going to use a balanced preamp, you can utilize a balanced amp to it's fullest potential.If you have a sub(s), you can roll off the Stages at 80 hertz & make life much easier for the amp(s) drivin... | |
| Other than music, why are you an audiophile? Because if you're not independently wealthy, almost everything in life is a compromise.Audio is your chance to audition, ask for advice from like minded individuals, and find that system that just clicks for you in all aspects of the music.You get... | |
| bat vk-32se-----pass labs xp10 preamp Cshouse007,I own the BAT VK31SE & the Pass X1.Here are my listening observations, in my system.Both sound very good, with a noise floor low enough that there is a dead silent backround.Listening to my favorite female vocal CD (K.D. Lang, Ingen... | |
| New Pass Amps? This is fine with me.Anything Nelson Pass works with can materialize for the market, later.My First Watt J2 arrived this week.I'll hook it up today. | |
| Does your system do things better in the dark? I believe it's 3 things:Less noise on the grid.Less sensory input.Attitude.What I mean by attitude is demonstrated when I tell a visitng non-believer (non-audiophile) that they will appreciate the music more if they just relax & listen, in the... | |
| greater resolution as an end in itself ?? Mrtennis,I think part of the equation in the "Higher Resolution"dabate is the fact that some highly read reviewers are at the point of appreciable hearing loss. And they won't admit it.I went to a local high end store here in Phoenix with a fellow... | |
| from B&w 805's to Usher be-718 - what to expect? Do you have a friend or dealer with a broken in pair?These take a couple of hundred hours to fully break in.Until they do, they sound exactly like their detractors say they do.I do have a bias. I own 2 pair & the matching center.This is the fi... | |
| Coda conundrum Valinar,Good question. Here's some history on this company, if memory serves me..A talented engineer with Threshold leaves & (co)founds Coda.Coda makes gear under their own name.Coda makes gear for Legacy speakers, it is re-badged as Legacy.Co... |