fcrowder
Responses from fcrowder
| Can the Vendetta be updated? John is currently updating older Vendetta's. This is not however cheap. | |
| BEST BALANCED XLR TUBE PREAMP FOR JC-1 MONOS? Suggest that you check out the Einstein preamp. No headphone jack but otherwise meets all your requirements and from personal experience, I can say that it mates extremely well with the JC-1's. | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective If you get the opportunity, audition the Einstein preamp from Germany. It incorporates a number of innovations and is to my ear by far the best preamp which I have heard in my system. Based on my experience, I have sold my Blowtorch and ordered th... | |
| Bob Crump passes away over holiday. Just a quick update. Maybe Bob will finally make it to Oregon or at least Washington. His body has been cremated per his wish and his brother will be taking the remains to the northwest when he returns home. On two other fronts, I believe that Joh... | |
| The best speaker you ever heard? I owned a pair of the original (read extremely large and heavy) Apogee speakers and still feel that in a number of areas (detail, transparency, speed, low level rtesolution) they are the best speaker that I have ever heard; however, I did not find... | |
| Bob Crump passes away over holiday. Bob was 57 when he passed away. | |
| Bob Crump passes away over holiday. I knew Bob for over twenty years, first as a fellow audiophile, later as a friend and owner of TG Audio. For many years, we made a point of weekly listening sessions either preceded or followed by a trip to Bob's current "favorite" restaurant, mos... | |
| Reference DACS: An overall perspective Over the weekend, our local audio group compared the following: Audiomat Reference DAC/CEC Transport ($9k/$2k), the Esoteric UX-01, the Exemplar modified Denon 3910, the Ayre 5 (?) and the Bel Canto Reference Player ($7500). (Prices are quoted str... | |
| Phono cable, are they really different? Yes, they can make a significant difference. Although I am not generally a Nordost fan, their dedicated phon cable using their Valhalla interconnect is exceptional. | |
| Need advice on my Parasound JC 1 I am using the JC-1's with Acapella Campanile Highs and have had absolutely no problems with either bass or dynamics. Three suggestions, i) if at all possible, borrow some balanced interconnect as the JC-1's sound significantly better in the balan... | |
| Getting and keeping records clean................ With the Art of Sound, does one need to have a distilled water rinse? | |
| Getting and keeping records clean................ Short response, buy the Loricraft record cleaning machine and use with the Art du Son record cleaning solution recommended in TAS. The Loricraft makes other machines appear to be bad jokes and is easy to use. The best by quite a margin. | |
| Looking for a new speaker. Wilson Maxx II ?? Suggest that you try to audition a pair of Acapella Campaniles or Triolons. If you are ever in the Houston area, you would be welcome to visit and listen to my pair of Campanile Highs. | |
| Acapella Versus Avantgarde I am also an Acapella owner (Campagnile Highs), have a friend who owns Violon Highs and the new La Campanella and would like to address address several issues: i) maintenance of the plasma tweeter, ii) coherence of the drivers and iii) bass. In ov... | |
| What Do You Get When You Spend Megabucks? My Finite Element (including the Cerabase feet) finally arrived and resulted in very noticeable improvements in all areas. I was impressed enough to immediately order amp stands with Cerabase feet. The review in the current HiFi+ is very much spot... |