fleschler
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| Honest question about cartridge vs. turntable performance. @millercarbon I totally disagree concerning the demotion of digital sound to analog sound. They are different but not incompatibly inferior to one another. My CD reproduction has the same (or better) PRAT, tonality and dynamics as my analog rep... | |
| I think some cables are just a little too expensive. @mikelavigne After you sold you VR9SEs, didn't you replace them with VR55s or the Ultra 9s? I intend to purchase the VR9SE MkIIs. I have a superb engineered listening room but I don't want to buy larger tube amps so I decided against the much l... | |
| Why are there so many wooden speakers? @djones51 I heard an expensive ($100,000+) glass cabinet speaker at the LAX show years ago. It sounded mediocre at best (couldn't stand it), despite using similar high end equipment as the two adjacent booths/halls. Wow, was that bad! I do n... | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? @stereo5 I've read of your problems with the VR33s on AudioCircle. It could be any number of problems but they didn't work in your room. Nearly all of the owners wrote that it could have been your room/floor/acoustics, cabling, equipment, etc.... | |
| What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby? Bought a Signature 9 SE CD(and DVD) player for nearly $4,000 25 years ago. Used it for about 50 hours. Just sold it for $500 on Audiogon. It had much worse sound than my Kyocera 300 and 400 CD players from 1984 (sound like a Mac 30 amp, gorgeous m... | |
| Why the truth is not in them ?? @clearthinker You don't know what you are writing about. Corrupt business practices were standard at the turn of the 1900s. Food manufacturing was very dangerous to consumers (I don't mean preserving food, I'm talking about knowingly producing f... | |
| Most organic / real / analogue sounding DAC (ideally with Volume Control) for $1500?????? @jtcf Exactly. Maybe most of my well remastered CDs aren’t exactly analog-like in open, spacious sound, but they are intensely musical sounding. As to my historic (and 1000s of acoustic) 78s on CD, wow, they are better than I could have achieved u... | |
| Do Audiophile Cables Matter? Here's PROOF! Grover Huffman turned exclusively to cable manufacturing after a career in photography. He found manufacturing electronics and speakers too time consuming/expensive relatively speaking to cable manufacturing. He's been cable manufacturing since ... | |
| Most organic / real / analogue sounding DAC (ideally with Volume Control) for $1500?????? @justmetoo Very nice analog and comparable to what I hear from a VPI TNT VI, modified SME IV and Benz Ruby 3. | |
| Most organic / real / analogue sounding DAC (ideally with Volume Control) for $1500?????? I enjoyed the analog like sound of the EAR Acute for 14 years. I recently replaced it with the COS Engineering D-2 DAC. I already have an all tube audio system and I relish the added detail, dimension and dynamics of the COS and it isn't cheap. ... | |
| Do Audiophile Cables Matter? Here's PROOF! My experience back in the early 80s was upgrading from zip cord to AudioSource speaker cable with braided flat small multi-conductor wiring. It was revelatory. Steakster - MasterBuilt Ultra is based on exotic formulation and assembly techniques ... | |
| Is Wife Acceptance Factor (WAF) sexist? Only once was a piece of equipment not WAF ready 39 years ago. The Acoustat X speakers with black grill, three angled panels, 4'+ high in a light pine exterior trim looked like "coffins." The amps blew and after a year, I sold them. They had v... | |
| Speaker upgrade around 100k retail Many audiophiles love Magico (including Valin of AS). I don’t detest them but I would never want to own any of the dozen or so models I have heard at shows and audio salons locally 18! times. Sometimes I can blame the accompanying electronics (Jad... | |
| Speaker upgrade around 100k retail No, the Acoras are not the equivalent of the Von Schweikert Ultra series. However, they are very good for the price but not the best speakers on the planet. Give me a break. Every high end manufacturer thinks their speakers are the greatest. I... | |
| Speaker upgrade around 100k retail Three of the four YouTube Videos of this speaker don't use classic music that I can relate to and the fourth is also not stressing it out. I want to hear it with a classic orchestral and big band jazz recording to get a sense of dynamics and sc... |