fleschler
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| Game Changing Tweak I agree with MillerCarbon more often and rarely with of the naysayers. I use PPT products but found that too many Omega Mats over isolation power transformers, rear of speakers and power boxes can result in a loss of air/ambiance/highs and too mu... | |
| I think some cables are just a little too expensive. @mikelavigne Thank you for the update. I previously saw your Evolution MMs on some equipment review(s) but I didn't put 2 & 2 together. I had a local dealer who discontinued the Von Schweikert line and kept the B&W line (very inferior in... | |
| Should a reference speaker be neutral, or just great sounding? I've heard many monitor speakers in studios and do not think they would sound good for long term listening in my music room. @michaelgreenaudio I intend to purchase Von Schweikert VR9SE II which have maximum adjustability using highest quality ... | |
| What have you been working on in 2020? Found that the 30+ year old half round vibrapods (about 2" diameter) work great as speaker cable lifters and stabilizing/anti-vibrational pucks. Hoping to replace my speakers with near SOTA speakers that my custom room and high end equipment/cab... | |
| 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 ... |