goofyfoot
Responses from goofyfoot
| OT: Espresso machines I think around 1996, I purchased a Krups il Primo for a few hundred dollars. It still works today and the coffee tastes so much better than from my Bialetti. Parts are still available on eBay. Anyway, not fancy but it makes great tasting espresso ... | |
| How are you playing your precious MONO Vinyl? There are some mono cartridges that will destroy a stereo record. Which ones I don’t know. Which mono cartridges are not strapped but true mono cartridges; the mono cartridges that house two separate mono coils or a single mono coil cartridge. The... | |
| Does other Audiogon members' opinion carry any weight for you ? When I started posting on here, there weren’t a lot of us and the amount of activity was significantly less. However, I was a bit more curious than I am now. DAC’s were relatively new back then and streamers were still unheard of. SACD/CD players ... | |
| Guitar lacking bite, vocal lacking presence Buy a pair of electrostatic speakers but keep your current speakers for when the electrostatic panels have to be replaced. | |
| DAC 'Scam' Vid Here we go again, evaluating DAC's soley based on the DAC Chip that it uses. | |
| What artists can you not get enough of? Edouard Vuillard Maurice Denis Ron Mueck Alberto Giacometti Lucien Freud Jules Dalou | |
| Just Getting Started With Headphones @mulveling Thank you for responding. I was told by many that the signal I hear is mainly coming from the power amp however no one gave me a percentage. If wrong about that, no big deal. | |
| Just Getting Started With Headphones @ghdprentice Thanks for the encouragement! I got so tired of having one of my Quad 2905’s in for repair and only being able to listen to mono recordings, that I was determined to put some kind of headphone system together. And now that I have, it’... | |
| Warm Sounding Portable Headphone Dac I have the Cayin RU7. Its possible to select the DSD 64, 128 or 256 which will change the degree of warmth. Very good sounding USB DAC for the price. https://bloomaudio.com/products/cayin-ru7?srsltid=AfmBOorwUr09oLIZp7KdofQN0pwvyK6X5zNH-NpX41I4AR... | |
| Dumb question......why do you need a preamp? I don’t have a preamp and my sound quality is better for it. | |
| WHY DO SOME AUDIOPHILES TRY TO TELL OTHERS WHAT THEY CAN OR CAN’T HEAR IN A SYSTEM? Arrogance | |
| For Tube Folks... @runwell Keep the new tube manufacturers in business because at some point in time, NOS will no longer exist. Some well reviewed newer tube brands out there; Grant Fidelity Special Edition, Linlai Elite, Apos Ray Reserve. | |
| For Tube Folks... Even new tubes are tested by resellers before they're sold. A while back, I bought four Telefunken military grade tubes for a radio multiplex. I got them on eBay and the seller was, I believe, an old Ham Radio Operator and these were from his own ... | |
| What devices have you found useful when inspecting your stylii for cleanliness? Yeah, there's not much to those lupes and they're costly. I use a pair of binoculars on my field camera. It turns everything right side up, which I prefer, so I've never owned a high quality lupe like the Zeiss. I have the Quad 2905's but with t... | |
| Room setting: new amp or new speakers? I can recommend what I have; ASR Emitter 2 Exclusive amp and Quad 2912 ESL speakers. I would advise not to underestimate the value of having a great amp. |