ejr1953
Responses from ejr1953
| Your Best Tweak Lately Getting the integration of the sub woofers with the speakers...and positioning bass traps:REW (Room EQ Wizard) software, downloaded to my Windows10 laptop (free to download, accepts donations). miniDSP UMIK-1 USB Measurement Calibrated Microphone... | |
| Best drink while listening to your rig? Drambuie (neat), or Grey Goose & Tonic, or Grey Goose & fresh squeezed OJ. | |
| Equipment that has made you 'stop' looking? McIntosh C50 Pre-Amp, McIntosh MC452 Power Amp, PS Audio P10 Power Plant Power Conditioner, PS Audio DirectStream DAC, Autonomic MMS-5A Server, Bryston BHA-1 Headphone Amp, Focal Sopra No2 Speakers, JL Audio F113V2 Sub Woofers, Wireworld Cables, 1... | |
| Worst or Best Excuses! I've been married for over 35 years, I guess she's used to me by now.No questions about the audio gear and it's cost, LOTS of questions about all those bass traps on the walls & ceilings! | |
| Sellers Beware!!! I have had two bad experiences, where a potential "buyer" communicates with me via Audiogon's "in mail", negotiates a "purchase price" with me either by "in mail" or by phone, the tune is always "cash & local pick up", but they decide to reduc... | |
| Dynaco A-25, the Large Advent, and JBL Century L-100: which one nad the best sound?? Wow! Back in the day I had all three of those speakers, driven by a McIntosh MC225, then a McIntosh MC275 and finally a Marantz 2275 receiver.If you listen to a lot of rock & roll the JBL's would be my first choice.If you listen to all sorts ... | |
| Enjoying My New Focal Sopra No2's Stevizzy,I had the Sopra's "dialed in" to the room, then later, when I added a pair of sub woofers and was dealing with the "boominess" in the room, adding bass trap after bass trap, the soundstage that the Sopra's were really great with suddenly ... | |
| Vienna Liszt vs. Focal Sopra No2 I have had my Sopra No2's now for five months and am smitten.Having said that, I auditioned them in a room about the size you mentioned and they sounded "good" but didn't sound "great" in that smaller room, with an 80 watt per channel integrated d... | |
| Speakers that open up at low volume levels They weren't my "cup of tea", but you might want to audition a pair of Harbeth's, if you like that "English sound". If not, I'd recommend auditioning a pair from the Totem Element line as well. Both are very smooth, very musical, great sound sta... | |
| Can you smell your speakers when youre rockin out? Very funny! Never heard of speakers smelling.I received a pair of Focal speakers in September with beryllium tweeters and a notice in the owner’s manual about the dangers of ingesting that metal.I texted one of my audio buddies to see if I should ... | |
| Subwoofer cable recommendations I went thru this process a few months ago, when I received a pair of JL Audio F113V2 subs.I enjoy Wireworld cabling for my interconnects and speaker cables and bought a set of their "Oasis 7" cables with RCA connectors to use with my former Velody... | |
| Best recordings to demonstrate soundstage? Diana Krall "Girl in the Other Room", Beck "Morning Phase". | |
| Modern Jazz (as in recent) Music Suggestions Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Stanley Clarke, Diana Krall, Marcus Miller, Lee Ritenour, Ray Brown, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Jeff Hamilton Trio, Ray Brown, Bob James, Keith Jarrett, Esperanza Spalding, Pat Metheny, Norah Jones to name a few. | |
| Firefox freezes when using Audiogon I am a Google Chrome - Andriod user, no problems with Audiogon on either. | |
| What's your profession? Age? I'm a 62 year old software engineer/consultant/business owner with a music audio system which was about $70k. |