dlcockrum
Responses from dlcockrum
| Multi Channel SACD Hi junzhand10,I find it tough to find titles that aren’t mastered to produce completely unnatural sound effects in the rear channels.Can you recommend some titles that use the additional channels correctly for ambient reproduction?Hi Erik,I sold m... | |
| Class "A" sound, as related to Stereophile. Hi o,Thanks, but there are some better rigs here on Audiogon, at least more expensive ones. I like to think that my system is an example of how to get superb sound using tried and true older equipment and optimizing the inputs and outputs vs spend... | |
| Class "A" sound, as related to Stereophile. Hi o,I had a tremendous mid-bass hump in my room. Spent many days rearranging speaker and listening positions and measuring the resulting frequency response, all to little avail.I did some research on another website (something asylum) and found ... | |
| Looking for SACD player............ Another alternative:http://www.audiogon.com/listings/cd-sacd-players-modwright-llc-sony-xa5400es-signature-truth-cd-sacd-player-with-many-upgrades-huge-2016-10-22-digital-08005-barnegat-nj | |
| Superb Service Rob Gillum at Thiel service.Bill Watkins Jr. at Watkins Stereo in Kingsport, TN The good folks at Ayre Acoustics.Eliott Nommensen at Synergistic Research. | |
| Class "A" sound, as related to Stereophile. o,Don’t be fooled by the concrete slab. My whole house is on a concrete slab and everything from my TT to my SACD player to my preamp to my power supplies to my AC enhancer to my amp to my speaker cables has benefitted significantly from additiona... | |
| Class "A" sound, as related to Stereophile. Hi o,My recent experiments with vibration control/dissipation have been a real eye opener. In retrospect, I realize that I have seriously neglected investing time and money into this important aspect of our hobby/obsession, feeling (in ignorance) ... | |
| Taralabs cables "Dlcockrum, what have you been considering for vibration control ?"Hi audiolabyrinth,https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/review-of-solid-tech-discs-of-silenceAlso purchased eden Sound TerraStone footers for the "new to me" MW Sony 5400ES and T... | |
| power conditioner ^Yep. | |
| Class "A" sound, as related to Stereophile. Good plan o. Enjoy.Best to you,Dave | |
| Thiel pricing https://www.hifishark.com/model/thiel-cs-3-7Click on "Sold/Expired Listings" tab. | |
| Class "A" sound, as related to Stereophile. Hi orpheus10,From Stereophile June 1990 review:"The CS5 crossover is itself also heroic. Constructed on a single hard-wired board, it incorporates 87 elements realized with 114 components. Only—only—55 elements are directly related to the first-or... | |
| Class "A" sound, as related to Stereophile. Hi viridian,You are more than welcome to visit anytime you are in the Houston area. Seriously.Never heard 1.5s, but I would imagine that the design was the best that could be done with the size and cost targets. I would never describe the sound of... | |
| Cerious Technologies NEW Graphene Cables Thanks lak. Best to you,Dave | |
| Class "A" sound, as related to Stereophile. "Perhaps it's that I listen closer than 8 feet and the drivers can't sum properly in the near field or perhaps those slow crossovers don't knock the drivers down far enough out of the pass band for me."Hi viridian. It's the former.Best to you,Dave |