gbmcleod
Responses from gbmcleod
| ??? How Much Would You Spend ??? Are the speakers, box, ribbon, horn, or electrostatic? And the sensitivity? The amp must be able to drive the speakers, so that would be a significant consideration. I'd go with an Aesthetix Mimas (around 9k), as it has tubes in the preamp and ... | |
| Truly Stunning Vinyl Album The Barbra Streisand Album. (The first one, 1963.) I was listening to my recently-acquired-at-the-time Dynavector XX2 Mk II (10 years ago), and this was one of the albums I just randomly put on to listen for the Dynavector's capabilities. And ... | |
| Magnepan LRS+ resistors on the tweeters… which? How long have you had the speakers? Is it possible that they are not fully broken in? | |
| Interconnect Break In? Wire DOES break in. Anyone who’s owned upper-tier Nordost, with its shriekingly strident treble before it (finally) breaks in, knows this to be true. It took what it always takes with Nordost: 300+ hours. And this was Frey 2, and Tyr 2, which I bo... | |
| Magico speakers too clinical and fatiguing? @jond I don't think - although I can't know for sure - that the sound you heard was colored by CAT electronics to the extent of sounding 'chocolate-y' , unless someone was playing around with tubes. I owned CAT electronics for many years, and c... | |
| Recommend me a tube integrated amplifier @freediver I had a Music Fidelity A1 for 10 years before i gave it to my sister. It’s a great little amp, but it doesn’t do what tubes do, which is to present a much more holographic presentation (assuming that that is what’s on the record). It ... | |
| Recommend me a tube integrated amplifier @ghdprentice I believe the Audio Research I-50 is a hybrid, not an all-tube integrated. I sold a Vsi60 a while back, and what I disliked about it - despite its other sterling qualities - was that the sound was a bit "washed out" in the same way... | |
| HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SYSTEM IN LESS THAN 30 SECONDS @audioman58 Thanks for pointing out how the Beatles albums were recorded, although I think many people who just joined the audiophile community in the past 20 years are unlikely to have those recordings, as it seems they are much younger than yo... | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response Transient response has been written about in audio journals for the past 50 years. And it is not my experience that it is a synonym for low distortion. Could you elucidate on that, because I must be misunderstanding you. I can understand that som... | |
| Can hi-end cables benefit less expensive electronics? Thanks, Willie Wonka. I was about to reply to ghdprentice about that, and say, essentially, what you just said. The noise floor’s lowest level is likely to drop with a better designed power cord. That’s part of the reason I like Shunyata. I have... | |
| DH Labs - Shunyata Cable Comparison This is more a suggestion, after using Shunyata for 20 years. (part of that time, I also had Nordost, Transparent and Synergistic). Shunyata cables (and Shunyata will tell you this) sound "good" in the first 50 hours, but for those of us familiar... | |
| DH Labs - Shunyata Cable Comparison One correction from my post. I don’t mean to suggest that simply being young means that people haven’t heard - or aren’t interested in - listening carefully (although it certainly sounds that way on re-reading it). I’m saying there are fewer oppo... | |
| DH Labs - Shunyata Cable Comparison After years of reading threads on cables, I’ve come to an awareness that the people who are complaining demonstrate a number of issues. 1) They don’t listen to acoustic music (meaning minimally invasive engineering while recording the music), and... | |
| Best speaker brands for transient response I agree that Magnepans are excellent on transient response. And even more so if it is a 2.7x, which has a ribbon tweeter. And, while I owned WATTS for several generations and have heard the Sashas, I doubt they have ANYthing on Magnepans if it is... | |
| Can hi-end cables benefit less expensive electronics? I’m not sure I agree that a better power cord is a poor idea for less expensive electronics. The right cord should - at the very least - lower the noise floor, so you hear less electronic interference when playing music, resulting in a clearer so... |