danvignau
Responses from danvignau
| Most annoying post period Post Peeve: Breaking in products, especially the ones with solid state electronics that must be warmed up for a period. If every time you turn on your system, you must wait for it to stabilize, you are most likely just learning to hear the good ... | |
| Most annoying song, period. just about any hymn. | |
| Dealer Discount A good friend of mine was the Florida sales rep for a few high end companies. He showed me his invoices. The dealers paid 50% of retail, plus 10% shipping on small orders. I sold my system and bought his demo pieces. The 38 year old collection... | |
| What is wrong here.. on Audiogon? Some amps do not really reproduce farts that well.Seriously, people comment on what they know or think they know. Too many have never heard Nelson Pass designed electronics. The first truly audiophile system I ever heard used a Threshold preamp... | |
| Broken hearted...magnepan and vandersteen Maggies sound good on Pink Floyd. May speakers separate the instruments in space much better. | |
| Cconfused... I till have very fond memories of my 1970s Phase Linear powered stacked (Wood, yes they sounded better) Advent system. I even stacked some B&W's for a decade, until I got 803's. | |
| Cconfused... The best sounding electric bass ever, IMHO, was Phil Lesh, with each of his 4 (sometimes 5) string pickups channeled through a dedicated channel of McIntosh amps, with multiple sets of JBL speakers for each string and pickup. Woofer movement fro... | |
| You've tried other amps and ended with Pass, please discuss I'll keep my bright and revealing system, thank you, but when I listen to some good music that is not recorded well, and/or mixed well, I have a Bryston powered pair of 10" subs with no crossover to add depth, harmonics, and sweetness, especially ... | |
| Why does my old CD player sound so much better than my new streamer? I have been continually amazed by audiophiles who state that their streaming service doe o match a good CD player. Why? Because I have never heard a streaming service/player that sounds as good a my CD player. Can anyone here state that there... | |
| Maggie owners (past, present, future) what do (did) you love and or dislike about them? My Maggies had a big sound, maybe even slightly bigger than my electrostatics. They were far from accurate, missing even more treble than the 'stats. The bass sounds contrived, not natural. My hybrid 'stats were even worse until I found the rig... | |
| Phono Cart Impedance Question Back in the early 1980's, I had a preamp with three M/C cartridge impedance settings. My neighbor, the factory sales rep, change one resistor to give me a 10 ohm setting. It got rid of the hiss. | |
| Worth pursuing analog sound from digital? For a truly vinyl sound, run the signal through tubes and a old DBX set to compress for recording. TeeHee Then record it with a tic and pop emulator. LOL? | |
| What did I hear? I recently auditioned $5000 in new Rotel equipment, including a 200 wpc amp with matching preamp and CD player on current B&W 804 speaker, because I reasoned that the sound would closely resemble my older 803's. It was truly horrible, both b... | |
| Pls Recommend Streamer Under $500 for Tidal “HiFi” I don't remember the brand, but Chris at Audio Advisers in West Palm Beach, recommended a $500 one. Give him a call. They sell Audio Research, Mac, B&W, Wilson, and LP's that can be from $1500 to $2500., so they are serious listeners, and the... | |
| Speaker Imaging - Do you hear a line, or do you hear an arc?? OOPS, Just saw the last sentence: B&W 803's with 10" subs underneath, time aligned placement, slightly sunken room open to main room, with identical amps driving all four speakers with separate, identical preamps on, shall we choose, Rosie O... |