ejr1953
Responses from ejr1953
| Help! Buy McIntosh MA252? Do you have the option of giving your dealer a credit card number and bring the demo units home to hear them driving your speakers in your listening room?I have a McIntosh tube preamp and McIntosh solid state power amp and love that combination dr... | |
| What's The Furthest/Longest You Have/Will Travel To Audition? oldhymac,Funny you should describe being ignored. In the 1978-1981 period I sold audio on straight commission at Shrader Sound in the Georgetown neighborhood in DC. One afternoon a guy came into the store that looked like he was homeless, hadn't... | |
| What did your system look like 30 years ago? Tandberg TR2060 receiverTandberg TCD310 cassette deckB&O 2400 turntableCanton LE900 speakers | |
| Audio Lessons Learned - post your best advice for the newer members! Joe55ag,Very Well Said!I'd add that we all hear differently and have our own unique preferences. In my search for a new pair of speakers, before setting me up to listen a salesman asked me if I preferred "analytic" or "musical" speakers. What ... | |
| Craigslist Fraud Before we moved to a new home about 500 miles away, I attempted to sell a 15 year old Honda snowblower, listing it on Craigslist. I had the same sort of experience. I reached out to the FBI and opened a formal case, the person on the phone said ... | |
| Neal Young and Tidal I have an SACD setup and most of the Super Audio disks DO sound better than my CD versions...but not all of them. A few of the SACDs I have purchased from legitimate sources sound a bit "dull" compared to the CD versions. I suspect that these we... | |
| Qobuz charges I must say that Qobuz sounds really good on my Focal speakers, both from France... | |
| Does it annoy you when companies don't show the internals of electronics ? Nope | |
| About to invest in room treatments; GIK, RealTraps, DIY -- what is your experience? The "man cave" in my former home had terrible bass. No matter what the bass line was in the music, the room added a single loud note. I bought a miniDSP UMIK-1 USB connected microphone and REW (roomeqwizard.com) to help me position the bass trap... | |
| My system is ... well, not ready Erik,A few months ago I thought you posted that you were looking to move, if my memory serves me, to someplace in the South. We moved into our "forever home" near Asheville, NC in November...our LAST move. | |
| A person I would like to thank/mention in the history of the high end, Frank McIntosh and Paul Klipsch.I believe Frank built the foundation for the company that exists today with his name. So many of the early audio pioneers built such great companies, but Frank's is one that seems to have kept its place in the indu... | |
| What did your system look like 30 years ago? Tandberg TR2080 receiver, Tandberg (?) cassette deck, B&O 4002 turntable, Canton LE900 speakers. | |
| Amazon Music HD..... Not For Audiophiles From what I've read elsewhere, for Roon to integrate with a streaming service, the streaming service must regularly (daily?) run a custom interface to dump the metadata for all the content in their library, so Roon can make the required updates on... | |
| Amp to drive Focal Kanta 3 I received one of the first pairs of Focal Sopra No2's that arrived in the U.S. and have been enjoying them, with no plans to change. They are driven by a McIntosh MC452 power amp; I mention that not to recommend McIntosh to you, but since I've o... | |
| Luxman - Shindo - Mcintosh ? I tend to be partial to McIntosh equipment, and in the early 1970's had the original MC275, which I'd recommend over the MC240, as there are many more of these available for purchase, and you can get a newer model. |