daveyf
Responses from daveyf
| Equipment Rack Between Speakers...Good or Bad Depends on the size of the room. Ideally, like others have said, if you have enough room ( this is the crucial aspect) then having the rack out of the plane of the speakers and at the side is best. OTOH, IF your room is too small, like mine, then ... | |
| LP12- Power Supply- Need education @mijostyn You say you lived with an LP12 for 10 years...when was that?...thirty years ago!! Funny thing, I used to own a SOTA Sapphire, liked it for the time, but sold it and replaced it with a VPI 19, which killed it...then i sold the VPI when i... | |
| LP12- Power Supply- Need education @saburo +1There is, as usual, a ton of misinformation and pure 'BS' being foisted by those who really have absolutely no clue about the sound of a well set up Linn LP12. I love this from mijostyn...'listen to a Linn platter, you will be able to ... | |
| LP12- Power Supply- Need education Like someone posted above, if you have a chance to hear the various power supplies that Linn has available for their LP12, I am fairly sure you will easily hear the difference each makes. The top of the line Radikal D is not just a power supply up... | |
| Cartridges that get strings right? While I agree with everything that has been posted so far, there is another variable to getting the sound of strings correct. Nobody has mentioned the quality of the phono stage. Many phono stages are not that compatible or resolving enough to get... | |
| Does it come down to the mastering quality only?? @folkfreak Some of the oldest recordings are indeed superb. i don't think that they are actually a good representative of a marginal or poor recording, generally. Main reason that I think some of the older recordings are superb, is because they ... | |
| Does it come down to the mastering quality only?? I am no fan of digitally recorded vinyl reissues; with the possible exception of the MFSL Box set Allison Kraus + Union Station Live.I think it is a safer bet to get the download or the SACD of a digital recording. | |
| Does it come down to the mastering quality only?? @onhwy61 @folkfreak I tend to disagree with the statement that a mediocre to bad recording on a decent system will sound anything BUT mediocre or poor. IMHO, the more warts that are exposed, the worse the listening session becomes...if we are talk... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Flamenco Fever--Superb Direct to Disc..Bill Evans MoFi One step Portraits in Jazz,Shelby Lynne Just a little Lovin'Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme Simon and Garfunkel MFSLBlack Sabbath Master of Reality UK Vertigo 1st pressing.Black Sabbath Vol4 ... | |
| Original Blue Notes vs Reissues I own a number of the original Blue Note recordings and also a number of the Music Matters Reissues. Personally I usually prefer to listen to the reissue, simply because the pressing is almost always quieter. OTOH, if the original is quiet, and I... | |
| Chinese fake cables How fake, how good? Can't talk about cable fakes...but in the guitar world it has been known for years that there are tons of fake Gibson Les Paul's out there. So much so, that the well known brick and mortar stores here in the US have sold these as real for years!! ... | |
| The best speaker for a small room...at any price point. I have listened to Audio Note speakers on many occasions, not interested at all... to my ears they are veiled and fail to image realistically due to their almost total lack of depth portrayal ( is this surprising since they are designed to be list... | |
| Bi-Wire Jumpers Having run a bi-wire set up for many years, I do not agree that running bi-wire is 'useless' as itzhak1969 claims. Many speakers have their x-overs optimized for a bi-wire set up, including many of the SF models. If you have the option of running ... | |
| The best speaker for a small room...at any price point. Have you considered bass trapping in the room? That might alleviate some of the excess bass that you are hearing.I run two (2) subs and with bass trapping there are no issues. | |
| Reasonable high end interconnects: without breaking the bank Easy, what teajay said in his post...Coppertone by Black Cat cables...a no brainer recommendation. |