deadhead1000
Responses from deadhead1000
| To complete a system A high quality streamer. Unless you have a record collection already, or plan to build one, I'd skip the TT and put all the money into a really high quality streamer for now. | |
| McIntosh to Luxman? I owed Mcintosh separates for a long time, once I could afford them. I agree with most of the posts here, it's a bit light at the top end, and to me a bit dark, now that I own the Luxman 590AXII, the Luxman sound could not be more different, and t... | |
| Sonus Faber Grand Piano or Totem Forrest? I have owned Totem and they were great sounding on any type of music. I have only heard SF for demos, but I found them too 'polite' for rock or rap, sounded great with classical. So I agree with @marakanetz. Just an opinion on what I've personall... | |
| Music Server Advice I have the N200 and once you are use to the app, it's fine. I agree it needs to add a few more features. I find plenty of new music streaming, so have no use for Roon and the cost for it. I also agree with the person who said upgrade your DAC. I d... | |
| A Different "Analog" Question Analog watches, several of them. No digital watch, I have a phone for that. I expect one day analog watches will make a come back, just like LP's did. | |
| A video interview wth Robbie Fulks. I was unfamiliar with Robbie, thanks for the recommendation! | |
| Do You Clean Your Ears? I prefer the occ copper adhesive to gold….I also have heard dipping it in Discwasher fluid helps. @dill really enjoyed this post. Thanks for the laugh. | |
| What is the most challenging music to play on a stereo? I would agree with @ghdprentice that overall, a classical symphony is the biggest challenge. But as I do not listen nor attend a lot of classical music, I use piano and vocals as my “challenge” for a system, as I am very familiar with many vocals ... | |
| Tough situation - need advice on modern (or refurbished Equivalent) Advent Loudspeakers The KLHs ‘s or Lintons are a good “modern” replacement if that is what the insurance company wants. Using the price of another set of referb Advents would get you a much lower value, so give the insurance company what they asked for. | |
| speaker cables under 1k for Harbeth 30.2XD? I own 30.2s and went with Audience Ohno. Flexible, occ copper, adds nothing, very neutral. I will mention these are the most expensive speaker cables I have owned, so can’t comment on higher levels. But I think they are a good match for the level... | |
| Harbeth 30.2 or Falcon Gold Badge I have the 30.2s, although I cannot compare them with the Falcons, I can say I compared them with speakers up to $14k and still brought them. I listen to a lot of vocal, acoustic, blues and jazz, plus a very small amount of classical. I have poste... | |
| TECHNICS 1700 MK II or AR -XA or Reco kut - N 33H One vote here for keeping the Technics. | |
| What's your experience with snooty HiFi salesmen? I live in a big city and three out of the four places are just horrible, incompetent sales people mainly. One charges for his 'advice' and claims his advice is on the order of a Medical Doctor. Yeah, right. The other won't let you listen to any mu... | |
| What to do with my legacy CD collection? I had a similar problem, although it only totaled about 100 CD's. After I made sure I had two compete HD backups, including one in fireproof file cabinet, best bet is to give them away locally. I gave mine away to folks who were more interested in... | |
| PS Audio Nuwave DSD DAC They are still around. Try going through their website support ticket, I have their DAC and never had a problem contacting them and getting an answer to any questions. Hope this helps s bit. |