ejr1953
Responses from ejr1953
| Could The Music Room biz model be duplicated? A second TMR? I've done business with TMR and echo the positive things posted by others here. I also agree that healthy competition benefits both the buyer and seller, so if another company in that space would come along, I'd say give them some consideration a... | |
| Bryston, McIntosh, Krell or Mark Levinson It's been a while since I auditioned Thiel speakers and the one's I listened to may not have been the exact model you are looking to pair with an amplifier, but I remember how the highs produced by the one's I listened to were very detailed and wi... | |
| Is your now then? In the late 50's-early 60's my parents bought this "375 watt" console, beautiful woodwork, very lousy sound quality. One of my high school buddies brought a scope over and found that this system produced only about 8 watts per channel before the ... | |
| Why the cost increase? I have a friend who invests in commodity futures and about three years ago he told me he was investing in lumber, as he found out that, in 2016 a few Canadian investors then owned 41% of the lumber-producing capacity in the U.S. He told me that h... | |
| What DAC upgrade made you say “DAMN, that sounds SO MUCH better than my last DAC”? I've owned a PS Audio DirectStream DAC since they first came out, and every time I've applied a firmware update, I've enjoyed better sound quality, the latest one is one of the best upgrades they've offered. | |
| Buying used vs new? I agree with jgoldrick. I'd add that if it's a current model, that's even better. The only caveat is that if you are purchasing a tube power amp, the tubes on the power side wear out the fastest and might be expensive to replace...so I'd factor ... | |
| Listening to digital and analog There is a brownish elixir I use that comes from Scotland which appears to improve the sound of both digital and analog sources... | |
| How many of you are digital only systems? Me too:My system, with all digital sources, has a P15 power regenerator, DirectStream CD/SACD disk transport & DirectStream DAC from PS Audio, a Roon Nucleus Plus streaming server controlled from my iPad & Android smart phone, a Dell Windo... | |
| McIntosh - is it that great? Back in the late 70's/early 80's I worked in the high end audio business and always loved the McIntosh equipment we sold, but thought I'd never be able to afford to own it.Fast forward a few decades and I enjoy a McIntosh tube preamp and solid sta... | |
| Old Amps that can still Kick Butt Back in the mid-1970's I was the second owner of a mint-condition McIntosh MC225 tube amplifier. I didn't make that much money back then and was offered a huge price for the amp and sold it. I wish I had that amp today! | |
| Disappointing On Mcintosh......help I've enjoyed a McIntosh C2500 tube preamp and MC452 solid state amp, driving a pair of Focal Sopra No2 speakers (in my experience, which can be difficult to listen to with other amps that are more on the bright side) and find they are an excellent... | |
| Tube vs. Solid State Amplifiers @panzwagn," Good SS amps have power supplies and output stages that can handle complex loads, but 'watts per dollar' amps have to cut corners, and the easiest places to do so is in the output stage current handling and power supply."Over the yea... | |
| Focal vs dynaudio I snagged one of the first pair of black Focal Sopra No2's that arrived stateside, after listening to a number of other speakers, including the then Dynaudio Confidence D4 model, which I thought were excellent.I am driving my Sopra's with an amp t... | |
| Low power amps and speaker damage? J.Chip: well said! | |
| CD v Streamed I’d say the answer to "which sounds better" is "depends".Let’s assume that the "chains" in your system sound equally good:CD player/DAC = Streaming source/DACI find that often the hi-res master that’s available for streaming from Qobuz is oftentim... |