davidlschr
Responses from davidlschr
| Recommendations for my less than ideal setup Sonus Faber, early models, are works of art, musical, easy to drive (smaller models - not Electa Amators or Extremas), will improve with the most expensive electronics and front end you can afford, and get snapped up quickly when they come up for ... | |
| Which Solid State Amplifier is Making you Happy? Get one BEL 1001 Mk5 if you want the most transparent amp ever made, get two and run them in bridged mono mode if you want to be completely free of "upgraditis" for the duration. I have never heard anything better in solid state. And you can also ... | |
| Do you own a Benz Lukaschek PP-1 phono pre? Mine has absolutely no indication on it who manufactured it. The specs printed on it are Input: 110VAC:6VA Output 24VAC. | |
| Sonus Faber - Final and difficult choice My love affair with Sonus Faber began with the original Electa Amator and I now own Extremas, Minuettos, Concertinos (not home) and a Solo (not home). Given your room, I'd avoid the EA1 - they really need space to open up, though when they do they... | |
| I need a female jazz vocalist. No Krall, No Norah Ella Fitzgerald | |
| Sony SCD-1 vs. SCD-777ES I have owned a SCD-777ES for a couple of years. I bought it after auditioning both the SCD-1 and the SCD777ES extensively. The physical differences included the feet, the actual box, balanced outputs, and epoxy coated power supply (the actual supp... | |
| Thiel or Sonus Faber??...Need help please I moved from 3.5's to SF Electa Amators. I did miss the bottom end and added a REL Storm sub-woofer. Later upgraded once more to SF Extrema - the REL has been relegated to the home theater. I've never looked (or listened) back. IMHO there is no co... | |
| Speaker priority: high or low??? No system can ever sound better than the limitations of the "upstream" components. Since speakers are at the very end of the chain, though they may serve as tone controls, they can NEVER improve the signal passed to them. | |
| Opera What is the best opera recording? You ask the impossible. Get in line and buy a ticket at the Met for the new production of Les Troyens next Spring. Of course, Don Giovanni was the opera that first destroyed me, and then there is Verdi's Otello. And what about Meistersinger? But y... | |
| No Sellers willing to do COD anymore??? COD is fraught with holes. I've sold quite a few items here, always with cash upfront. I provide my home and work number and I offer my banker as a reference to verify that I've lived and worked in the same area for a long time. In return, I alway... | |
| Sonus Faber Extrema manuals. The manual had nothing to say about speaker location. They are less critical of placement than my previous Electa Amators. Despite their reputation for needing space (based on their first order crossovers) for driver integration, I listen to mine ... | |
| Driving SF Extrema with one BAT VK-60 ? I would think one VK-60 is inadequate. I drive mine with a pair of BEL 1001 amps in mono configuration, which works magic. In my experience, the Extremas need LOTS of power to get the pitch right in the bass range. Given your other equipment, I'd ... |