ejr1953
Responses from ejr1953
| The Proverbial "best amp" for Focal Sopra No. 1 I've enjoyed a pair of Sopra No2's driven by McIntosh with "autoformers", so I'd recommend the MA7200 or MAC7200. The "warm" sound of those amps seem to pair really well with the Focal tweeters. | |
| Listening to music I don’t particularly like That's something I rarely do, listen to music that I'm not fond of, but that makes my system shine. When I toured my then local lineup of brick-and-mortar audio stores to find a new pair of speakers, it really bothered me that one of the dealers ... | |
| Have you ever been turned off by an Arrogant Dealer? Thoughts Back when we lived in the DC area, I visited a lot of "brick and mortar" shops in search of a new pair of speakers. If my memory serves me, I stopped at one in Bethesda, MD on a dreadfully hot, humid day, with on-and-off rain all afternoon. When... | |
| Have you ever been turned off by an Arrogant Dealer? Thoughts The summer of 1978 or 1979 I worked at a high-end audio dealer in the Georgetown neighborhood in DC. What appeared to be a "smelly homeless guy" and his friend were enjoying our Bang & Olufson display; all the other salesmen left the front of... | |
| Next upgrade? I too have an "all digital source" system and I've found that upgrading the AC power conditioner makes the DAC perform better. I know you said you weren't interested in that upgrade, but it might be the best thing to make that excellent DAC of yo... | |
| Is advice from a constant upgrader to be avoided I must admit, I used to be in a "constant upgrade" cycle, but lately I've really slowed down on my purchases. I found an elixir from Scotland which is brown in color that seems to treat that affliction and it seems to have worked for me... | |
| Thank you Veterans! Well said. Also, thank you to the cops and firefighters who go off to work every day to protect us. | |
| Vinylistas and Tubers - One and the same? My system has all digital sources, the one I use the most is my Roon Nucleus Plus server streaming Qobuz into a PS Audio DirectStream DAC. I also have a PS Audio CD/SACD transport. I find my McIntosh solid state amp pairs really well with my Foc... | |
| Power conditioner some say yes and some say no. My system has all digital sources (disk & music server) and when I upgraded from a modest Furman conditioner to the PS Audio P10, I noticed an immediate improvement in the sound quality. When the P15 was introduced, I upgraded again and was p... | |
| Better CD Sound: The Search @clearthinker " I have always wondered why someone doesn't build a player that reads the disc without using any clock, buffers the bits for half a second or so and spoonfeeds them to the DAC at nice even intervals using a separate clock?"PS Audi... | |
| How do you listen? One of my frustrations with some live performances is that the volume level is too high for the room. During those performances you can see the singer singing into the microphone, but can't hear the words, you can see the horns playing but can't ... | |
| sellers trying to sell used product for 10-20% off of list price Over the few years I've been an Audiogon user, I've been surprised that people list prices for their used equipment so high; most of the time I see those listings just languish, sometimes not.What's anything worth? Just what someone is willing to... | |
| Focal 1028+Mcintosh MC275 I have a McIntosh MC452 driving a pair of Focal Sopra No2's and that combination works really well. I've auditioned my speakers with other amplifiers and have found too many of them cause "edginess" with that Focal tweeter, but not the McIntosh. ... | |
| Amp craftmanship/Quality I used to love NAD equipment but about a third of the pieces I owned (all purchased new) had to be repaired.I know I'll probably work up a bunch of blood pressures to say this, but I've enjoyed several McIntosh pieces, not a single one needing rep... | |
| To Stream or Not to Stream I'm "all in" with streaming, so much so that I hardly ever listen to any other source.In my case I have a Roon Nucleus Plus server, it's USB into a PS Audio DirectStream DAC, the two pair with each other very nicely.I have friends who enjoy the Au... |