ejr1953
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| The Best Midrange in the World Right Now I've been smitten with the midrange from the Focal Sopra No2's. Since transitioning to my music server/iPad setup, I rarely listen to an entire album start to finish, but the other night enjoyed Diana Krall's "The Girl in the Other Room", a reall... | |
| Is the word 'Integrated' that hard to spell? All those years I've been in the working world (about 50 of them), I've been surprised at how sloppy people can be with letters, memos and emails; it detracts from the perceived "professionalism" when it contains all those miss-spellings. | |
| The one piece of gear you will never sell Hard to say "never", but I'll go with my McIntosh MC452 power amp. | |
| How to upgrade in pieces - or - tell me about your journey! About four years ago, with the kids’ college expenses behind me, I started my journey into the higher end of our hobby, with the purchase of the NAD Masters Series components, a Velodyne sub woofer and a pair of Totem Fire monitors.I was immediate... | |
| In a lot of these threads people say without the room being treated Today I installed the 7th & 8th bass trap in my "man cave" and I’m close to being "done" struggling to control the "boominess" in the 24x26’ room. It was so bad that, even with a half-dozen traps, and using the room eq feature built into my JL... | |
| In a lot of these threads people say without the room being treated I did a lot of upgrades in 2015, in a new "man cave". When I got a new pair of speakers, got them "dialed in" to the room with just a few bass traps, the sound was just great! But when I added a pair of excellent subs, that last octave of bass h... | |
| When is your Hifi good enough? "Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be audiophiles" or"Women don't let your husbands become audiophiles"2015 was a year of upgrade after upgrade for me, after we decided to have me migrate the audio system from the living room, to my "man c... | |
| What brand is most recognized by non-audiophiles? "Let's all rise and face the back of the church and take a moment to reflect...." very funny! | |
| new gear vs used gear My experience:Amp-current model, 4 months old, AudiogonPre-Amp-current model, 5 months old, AudiogonPower Conditioner, on Audiogon as a 9/10, carton I received never opened.Server-current model, 6 months old, AudiogonDAC-new from dealerSpeakers-ne... | |
| Is there a Peter Principle of Audio… "gear-ophiles", very good way to put it!2015 was a very active year for me buying and selling equipment to have a setup I really enjoy and plan to keep for a while. While I was out and about, visiting all sorts of audio shops, I ran into a few of... | |
| So how many people are using subwoofers I am a big fan of having sub woofers. Having said that, I find that it takes a lot of patience to get them "dialed in" to the room and the side speakers.A few months ago I upgraded from a pair of two-way monitors to a pair of three-way floor stan... | |
| Enthusiast's Review A/B Focal Sopra 2 and Electra 1028be (II) I auditioned the 1038BE’s and the Sopra No2’s and selected the Sopra’s, have been enjoying them since Mid-September 2015.My audition of the 1038BE’s was in a larger room (probably around 24x24) powered by a 450wpc amp. They knocked my socks off, h... | |
| I was thinking the other day about all the audio stores that were around when I was a kid It seems like once our economy started making the transition to the "corporate model", lots of "mom & pop" stores went out to business when Walmart, Target, etc. came along and displaced them. Same thing happened with many of those wonderful ... | |
| What's up with the ridiculous offers?!? I guess what I'm learning about these "low ballers" is that, when they want to make their offer outside of the formal "offer" on Audiogon, say they want to pay cash and local pickup, that's a real "red flag". At least if you require them to make ... | |
| I have seen some Interesting comments about Mcintosh lately DTC,In the late 70's/early 80's I worked at some high shops in the DC area, when Yamaha was a mainstay line for many shops like the one I worked at.Then Yamaha introduced a cheaper line of equipment, sold at department stores and our factory rep c... |