fsonicsmith
Responses from fsonicsmith
| AUDIO RESEARCH VS VTL I own all ARC for amplification, a Ref 6 and Ref 150 SE. I have sent many an email to ARC that went unanswered. The few times they did respond, it was weeks later and terse. The sound is amazing and they have been rock reliable. That keeps me seat... | |
| Help with Shortlist of Speakers! (SF vs Devore vs Others?) There is no one set of speakers that does it all. Wilson and Magico owners don't accept this premise. They need to expand their minds and see the different paradigms. As a Devore O/93 owner (and a happy one), I still accept the strengths and weakn... | |
| AMR DPP-777 DAC tubes maybe not the SW1X which weighs in at about 6K,6K for a DAC II Special which is indeed quite special. 13K for a DAC III Balanced which is superior to the former but only by a fraction. More apples and oranges than higher on the pyramid of musical ... | |
| AMR DPP-777 DAC tubes I replaced the tubes in my DP-777 a year and a half ago simply due to the fact that the stock tubes had seen a lot of use. Also, the DP-777 (it is not "DPP") is weird in that on standby mode, the unit powers up when there is a power outage. Here i... | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING I humbly request that no one bother responding to this guy's companion thread he just started. The first rule at the zoo is don't feed the animals. | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING fsonicsmith, please return to listening to your 1990's NAD gear believing its high end. lol I have been a member here for over nine years as opposed to your less than two year participation here and unlike you, my system is posted. If you were ... | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING Not a VPI bashing party, bit it sadly has morphed into unipivot vs gimbal thread. Ugh. No, it is fundamentally a troll thread. As I stated in my first contribution to this thread, there is a known pattern to these kinds of threads. The OP star... | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING Also, I am extremely hard on Cartridges due to having a few beers and getting clumsy with the tonearm. Translation-I am extremely hard on fellow audiophiles due to having a few beers and getting clumsy with my manners. Fwiw, my beerbelly friend(em... | |
| LYRA DELOS CARTRIDGE TOO BRIGHT, THIN AND SHRILL SOUNDING I feel very bad for Jonathan Carr for stooping so low as to respond to the bottomless trench in which the OP obviously inhabits. These things develop so predictably. First what appears to be a reasonable plea for help and then a premeditated troll... | |
| Woodsong Garrard 301, Artisan Fidelity 301, Shindo 301, SME 301, or etc.? Chris Harban advised me not to switch to a much heavier platter.That the 301 motor was not designed to move that much weight.Yes I agree with Chris on this. The 301 motor is not as powerful as the later 401 and in my experience the timing and cohe... | |
| Naim introduce a turntable - the Solstice Special Edition Look at the bright side. It seems that every major name in audio wants to have a turntable in their line-up. This is a very good thing as it demonstrates how strong vinyl is. And this despite the loss of the World's only full-scale master-plate pl... | |
| Naim introduce a turntable - the Solstice Special Edition I never stay angry at anyone for very long. The TD124 sounds very much like an idler imho. I don't claim for a second that my two vintage decks are much above an 8 on a scale of 1-10 as to the worst and best out there. In fact, I don't particularl... | |
| Naim introduce a turntable - the Solstice Special Edition For the record (pun) I have kept all three platters. I have a heavily modded/hot-rodded TD124 too (see my profile and system if you wish) and I have kept the OEM platter and a use a high mass one. This was no experiment. I bought a Lyra Etna Lambd... | |
| Naim introduce a turntable - the Solstice Special Edition Should anyone question the motivation for my response to Lewm, the answer is here "Your little experiment". So f-ing condescending I could just...... Well, you get the idea. | |
| Naim introduce a turntable - the Solstice Special Edition fsonic, Your little experiment with a single idler-drive turntable and platters of different mass does not "prove" that high mass per se is the cause of a "plodding" sound, whatever that means to the author. It only means that you prefer the ligh... |