ejr1953
Responses from ejr1953
| Streamers, servers, players - woefully overpriced?? I agree, somewhat.I enjoy using a Roon Nucleus Plus server. I could have gotta a maxed out Intel NUC and installed the Roon software and probably saved some coin. But I didn't want to mess with that. As well, the Roon version of that seems real... | |
| House buying and the aspiring audipihile Asvjerry,Good to "connect" with you. I did join the Carolina Audio Society, but I suspect it'll be a while till we meet "in person".No bumper stickers on either of our cars! | |
| House buying and the aspiring audipihile Grey9hound,My daughter has lived in the Asheville area for about 12 years now and we've visited lots of times. Yes, the Mellow Mushroom is a wonderful place. There are other really fine pizza places, Pizza Mind, Galactic Pizza Asheville and we g... | |
| House buying and the aspiring audipihile We sold our house in the DC/Baltimore area and in June moved in with our 22 month old granddaughter and her parents, just a few miles from a new home that we are having built in the Biltmore Lake, NC community, just outside Asheville. November 12... | |
| Downside to "revealing" system? When I was visiting audio dealers in my search for my current pair of main speakers, before entering the sound room, the salesman asked if I preferred "analytic" or "musical" speakers, an interesting question. My preference was for "musical".I fo... | |
| Another equipment recommendation request for DAC with Pre Amp I would add the Mytek Brooklyn DAC+ to the list. It's got an excellent DAC, and is a full-featured preamp, with a wonderful phono input and headphone output.I have owned the original Brooklyn, gave it to my son-in-law. | |
| Is the Roon Nuceus device a good streamer? emergingsoul,There is lots to learn in the new world of digital audio and streaming. With the Roon Nucleus (or Nucleus Plus), the server is connected to the internet and (in my case) to an external hard drive via the USB connection, the second US... | |
| Is the Roon Nuceus device a good streamer? I have owned a Roon Nucleus Plus server and give it two thumbs up. It's really well designed and made and the USB port is "dead quiet", really good sounding box. It also has the Roon software installed and "automagically" updates itself. I've n... | |
| Audio tax write-off For the 21 years I had my business I did not write off the "office in the home", though it was 100% legit, as it would have figured into the "basis" when calculating the capital gains on my home and its equity.Having said that, I did write off the... | |
| Offer / counter-offer? Audiogon rules One thing I would avoid is dealing with people who want to contact your via "in mail" on the site, then want to negotiate outside of the formal Audiogon "offer" method.I had a guy who said he had all sorts of questions about the unit I was selling... | |
| Shipping. Hard Lesson. We did an "out of state" move in June. When the movers were about to grab my power amp (110#), speakers (122# each), and subwoofers (133# each) I warned them, so they wouldn't hurt themselves, and I was amazed at how easy it was to handle these i... | |
| Perfect sound Now what? I had experiences similar to those who have posted here.When I "finished" my 5-6 year journey, swapping out this, upgrading that, I got my system to the point where I could relax and enjoy the music, as the "sound of the system" was where I wanted... | |
| Shipping. Hard Lesson. I have always kept the original factory cartons, to avoid the story you told. One of my buddies who had a large McIntosh power amp had the same experience with "generic" packing materials. I think he said that purchasing the factory carton was s... | |
| What have you been working on in 2020? My audio equipment is all packed up in the original factory cartons, as we are having a new home built, with a "bonus room" over the garage for my "man cave".I worked with the builder to adapt their "standard bonus room" to make it useful for my l... | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? I've been pretty lucky with my purchases, even luckier connecting with people who gave me great advice, which guided me to "listen for myself". |