danlib1
Responses from danlib1
| CD player NOT made in China under $1,000? Bill; With all due respect, the differences between Japan and China are glaring. Again, I have no doubt about the quality of many Chinese products- it's that damn political system I despise. | |
| CD player NOT made in China under $1,000? Kira- all American assembly line workers are "uneducated semi-illiterate" individuals? Really?So should we assume that a Chinese assembly line individual would be better educated? Of course Chinese manufacturing has it's advantages. If the Chinese... | |
| Threshold and Magnepan My audio mentor back in the day- Jay Dial- drove Maggies to bliss with Threshold. You should be quite happy. | |
| Spilled marinara sauce on wood speaker.... I say twist one up- then you'll be too hungry to give a shit! | |
| whats the best amplifier for me?? Okay Larryken, that was funny.Unless of course you were serious, in which case I am a fool yet again. | |
| XLR-RCA: Adapters or Custom Cable? Little uptight there Mechans? | |
| sub woofer amp hot on Vandersteen 5a's Why not ask Richard Vandersteen? | |
| Cayin A-88T vs Cary SLI-80 Signature I owned both- for extended periods.Cary SLI-80 by a mile- and don't sell it once you get it :) | |
| power conditioner with off switch Well, many will do just that- including the BPT that I use. But I trust you don't mean just shut down everything by the Power Conditioner switch- I definitely would never recommend that. If you mean shut down each component in sequence THEN shut d... | |
| Power Conditioner and Surge Protector It often makes a big difference, but units and results vary.My best results have been obtained using BPT Balanced power products.Dynamics never suffered- with Pass X-250 amp no less.Tube amps I've owned benefited as well, as did the digital front ... | |
| How to ship speakers Remember- If one gets "lost"- you are hosed. The shipper will only pay the cost of one speaker, even if it's impossible to replace just the one for any reason.It happened to me- the speakers I shipped arrived safely at the FedEX hub in Memphis, an... | |
| Jump in now or wait? I bought an IMac 24 inch w 500 GB harddrive, feeding an Apogee Duet via Firewire. The Apogee outputs to a Woo Audio 6 Modded headphone amp, then to a pair of AKG 701's.I found the output exceptionally good- and I'm used to an Exemplar CD player, w... | |
| Ear protection for concerts Yep; Etymotic ER 20's are what I use, lightly inserted. Work very well! | |
| Steven Stills, "Stills Alone" Saw the old man himself play it live about 6 months ago. I was so close I could see Stills sweating it out- and man the old boy can still play.He seems to really enjoy playing that tune especially. | |
| Horns for Your iPod Well, you go ahead and I'll catch up later :) |