gliderguider
Responses from gliderguider
| WAF, Help, Need Strategy Here's what worked for me recently. GF and I bought a house for the two of us and 1.83 of her 3 daughters (based on average occupancy :-) She knew going in that I wanted a listening room, so the deal is that I don't compromise at all on the listen... | |
| Smooth sounding DAC? What's your budget? I'm partial to the Audio Note balanced DACs for the qualities you mention. Any of the 2.1x, 3.1x and 4.1x Balanced models ought to make you a happy camper. | |
| Sim Audio Moon P-5 too dry My P-5 also sounds a bit dry, but not egregiously so. I agree that some cable swapping is in order. My suggestion would be to try either Wireworld Gold Eclipse 5 or Acoustic Zen Reference Matrix II in XLR configuration out to the amp. Borrow cable... | |
| Kharma, Wilson Sophia, JM Labs I'm confussed???? If you're looking for full-range speakers, consider the Coincident lineup. I've heard four different models now, and they all sound great. They're coherent, detailed, musical and very easy to drive. If you can find a pair of used Total Victory or ... | |
| Reference quality line stage? Khaki8 - I thought about the Audio Note preamps. The M6 would be in the price range I'm looking at, but somehow it just doesn't do it for me. The Blowtorch is an all-out, balls-to-the-wall assault on SOTA, and that really resonates with me. Beside... | |
| Reference quality line stage? A couple of last comments:Sean, when I connect my DAC directly to my amps, the sound level is about where I normally listen, or a wee bit more. While that's OK, it doesn't leave much room for CDs with low recording levels, or the occasional bout o... | |
| Reference quality line stage? Thanks for the ideas and suggestions, everyone. Digging up information about some of the candidates I hadn't considered has really helped focus my thoughts.A couple of things became clear to me in the process. On is that there are a lot of very, v... | |
| If Money Were No Object... A Fantasy Question I'd put a bunch of money into a very good room - possibly custom built as part of a custom built house. Then I'd put a max of $150K or so into the gear and another hundred thousand into music.I think pursuing SOTA is a mugs game, because preferenc... | |
| Tube rolling Audio Note DACs I recently put a pair of NOS Siemens into the 3.1x Bal when one of the JJ's went down. The Siemens sound more musical than the JJ without losing any clarity. Interestingly, in my preamp the Siemens sounded thick in the bass and rolled off on top, ... | |
| Digital as good or better than YOUR analog? My digital is a lot better than my analog (I think). I'm just going by memory, though, as I haven't listened to my turntable in about 3 years. It's an old Sota Sapphire with a methacrylate mat, Alphason arm and a fairly good Grado cartridge. I rem... | |
| "Emotionally involving" music and your system... Two pieces have left me feeling overwhemlmed as you describe, and they're both by Shostakovich. The first one was the 2nd Piano Trio, performed by the Borodin Trio at Parry Sound, Canada in about 1992 or so. The other was a performance of the 14th... | |
| Your ONE all time favorite love song? "Forty Five Years" by Stan Rogers, from the album "Fogarty's Cove". Never fails to lump my throat. | |
| B&W 804 with ??? I'd go for a either a MOSFET/tube hybrid, a 50 wpc Class A SS amp or a strong tube amp. I've run my N804s with a couple of 16 wpc 300B SET amps and a Sugden Au51P power amp, and they just sing. A used push-pull tube amp mated with a passive line s... | |
| Speakers for under $10k used? My vote goes to Coincident Speaker Technology's Total Victory. I own a pair, and the reason I love them is they are full-range, lively and detailed, musically and sonically coherent, are build like brick outhouses and can be driven by pretty much ... | |
| TVC vs. active pre? I appear to have answered my own question. A new friend strongly encouraged me to try his Audion Premier line stage. Last night, four hours after I plugged it in I agreed to buy it.In my system the Audion provided better dynamics, resolution and a... |