danlib1
Responses from danlib1
| Headphone Rig for PC? Dennis is right. Of course in this hobby you can always spend more money if you wish, but I think the Benchmark is an excellent solution with a PC.Have fun! | |
| Why do dealers do this? Mlsstl reminded me that it's not just audio dealers who act this way. I'm in sales for a living, and had a unique experience buying my wife a car.One Saturday, I drove my P.O.S. company car (it's free- new one every year or so) to the Lexus dealer... | |
| What is the best band ever? Dude, it's just impossible to pick one :)Return to Forever, any Miles Davis ensemble, EARLY Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green), any John Lee Hooker ensemble, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Traffic, Steely Dan, Aimee Mann's groups, Radiohead, Wilco, and too many ot... | |
| Help w/Power Conditioning: Shunyata, Furman, RGPC? I've had great results with BPT. | |
| Tube DAC Advice Needed Does the Monarchy have USB input? I can tell you the USB functionality on the Havana was important to me, and it performs superbly. | |
| Best Budget interconnect cables for cd to preamp Tried so many budget cables I can't name em all. By far, the Speltz Anti-Cable IC's were the best. In fact, as I moved up into ever more expensive cables, I could always put the Anti-Cables back in and end up scratching my head wondering how they ... | |
| Tube DAC Advice Needed I have the Havana, and it is SUPERB! Ordered it directly from MHDT Labs' Ebay page, and it arrived in 2 days. Great customer service, beautiful sounding product, highly recommended. | |
| Variable plasma picture quality Most likely it's that old problem- inconsistent digital cable signal.Do you have a DVD player hooked up? If so, is that picture as good as you'd expect? If so, that rules out any panel issues.You can call your cable company- or get DirecTV or Dish :) | |
| Used Tube Preamp Suggestions Manley Shrimp. Extremely good. | |
| Leave solid state amps on? Or turn off everytime? Forget the Ecomentalists on this one...leave it on. | |
| the best CD player between 6'000 - 10'000 $ ? Ummmm...how about an Imac to a MHDT Havana NOS Dac? Sure gives my Exemplar a run for the money :) | |
| Best things 'in life' Right now it's my Imac 24, feeding my MHDT Havana Dac, which feeds my fully modded Woo Audio 6 (with the Sophia rectifier), then on to my AKG 701's and into my old noggin.Beautiful I tell 'ya! | |
| Do single-layer SACDs sound better? Levinson is a brilliant man, but, uh, a little research quickly reveals the dude is a bit flaky. I would say trust your ears, and let Mark do his thing. | |
| Digital Purchase Advice . . .DAC or New Player I HIGHLY recommend a MHDT Labs Havana DAC. I cannot believe that for $800.00 the DAC sounds as it does. Simply stunning- and I've had a few Digital front ends in my day.You may want to check it out. | |
| characteristics between these Anti-Cables are quite good. Also outstanding are DNM Reson with Eichmann bullet plugs. I used both to great effect. Hero is good too, though I liked the aforementioned better. |