ejr1953
Responses from ejr1953
| Too good a post to waste I remember back in the late 1970's, when I was a salesman at a high-end store in DC, having lots of visits from a guy who said he was just "kicking tires", not to bother us sales people. On one of my slow days I struck up a conversation and he sa... | |
| What do you sit on? I have a Stressless Buckingham sofa, which seats three, all three seating positions have a recline feature, which isn't a full recline, but I'm able to find that "sweet spot" and can sit for hours. | |
| best vintage stereo receiver In the past I had an Kenwood, Marantz, NAD and Tandberg 2080, the Tandberg was my favorite. | |
| Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking? My system, with all digital sources, has a P15 power regenerator, DirectStream CD/SACD disk transport & DirectStream DAC from PS Audio, Mytek Brooklyn DAC for streaming MQA, a Roon Nucleus Plus streaming server controlled from my iPad & An... | |
| What are the most used terms that say the least in the "High-End"? "accurate" or "reference" | |
| How long for payment? Strange they would have used Audiogon's formal way of buying something and not followed thru. I'd contact Audiogon's help to see what their policy is.One thing I'll not do is deal with those buyers who want to contact you via phone or home email,... | |
| Ever feel like a "low dollar" customer that your dealer doesn't think worth their time? It's the summer of 1978 and I'm working the sales floor at Shrader Sound in the Georgetown section of Washington, DC and all the other salesmen on the floor were avoiding a seemingly homeless man, with several days growth of beard, smelly, wrinkle... | |
| The pleasure of ownership I used to work with a guy who seemed to buy a new car every so many months. He told me he knew he was taking a beating on the depreciation, but he just loved the shopping & buying experience and after the "new car smell" started to fade, his ... | |
| Your One Bullet Point Solution; Electrical Upgrade Before we renovated our kitchen, a friend who is a licensed first class electrician was building a home and installed the same "commercial" unit in my home that he intended to put in his main panel of his new home. I reached out to him for a reco... | |
| Youngsters these days. We sold our house in MD and are in the early stages of having a home built in Western, NC.To prepare out house for listing we "de-cluttered" and "staged" and am somewhat used to having less stuff in our living room.So, instead of having an audio c... | |
| If you had to start all over again in this day and age For my main "audiophile" system, after 5 or 6 years of constant upgrades, for the system I'm "set", won't change a thing...except that we are moving into a home we are having built, with a "bonus room" for my "man cave", so I guess my true answer ... | |
| stand-mount speakers for classical music I owned a pair of Totem Fire monitors for several years, if you can listen to them, that might be a good fit.I replaced the Totem's after a year-long search and some of the speakers I enjoyed were from Harbeth, Dynaudio and Sonusfaber. I ended up... | |
| Which is the most important part of a stereo system? I'd call the "synergy" among the components and the cabling the "most important part" of a system.If I'd put more emphasis anywhere, I'd go with the sources. "Garbage in, Garbage out". | |
| Love the gear (or listening to it) as much or more than the music? Sacrilege! Back in the late 70's/early 80's I was a salesman at some high-end shops in the DC area and I learned that people who seemed to be listening to the equipment not the music hardly ever bought anything. So I took a lead from my more experienced co-... | |
| What kind of listener are you? Interesting!Before auditioning a speaker at one of the dealers I visited in my search for a new pair of speakers, the salesman asked me if I preferred "analytic" or "musical" speakers. For me the choice was "musical".When I've auditioned some of ... |