harrylavo
Responses from harrylavo
| Awaiting a 1st impression ghdprentice - You may be the youngest, but you still qualify for my hi-fi club ... "Geezers High for Fi". | |
| Awaiting a 1st impression Several comments on Boostedis's point. I am an 82yo audiophile who has closely followed the industry since I was a 15yo kit-builder. Comment #1: Unless you are actively into today's market online, much of the self-selecting advertising is not... | |
| Tuner choice Unsound, I agree that selectivity is an important spec, although frankly it was more important in the past than it is now due to advances in technology ..... while sensitivity in most tuner gear today is less than it was in the distant past (when... | |
| Large room with low budget for speakers My advice: get yourself some big Maggies, or the largest IMF transmission line monitors available (used). The a really powerful amplifier to drive them. You'll get all the sound and sound level you could want. Hi-fi, sound, not just sound! | |
| Tuner choice It depends on what you want. A lot of tuner affionados are after long-range reception, which makes sense if there is a very good station you cannot otherwise reach. But if you have a very good (technologically) station in the area, you should ev... | |
| What defines mid-fi versus high-end? Answer: your income. What you can afford is seen inevitably as the "low-end" of audiophilia. The highest end is always to dream for, whether $5,000 or $500,000. Does really high quality sound demand that? No, not at all. But human nature does. | |
| Large room with low budget for speakers High end Magnapans. They can fill any room, and don't cost an arm and a leg. If you can't afford new, go back a few years. Even more of a bargain. Big, enveloping soundstage! Instruments and voices that sound "as in the room" if speakers posi... | |
| Turn off or leave on? In my two systems the transistor gear (one amp, one tuner, one disk player/dac, one separate dac stay on, or at most I may turn off the transistor amp overnight. The tube gear (amp, preamp, headamp, tuner) goes on a half hour before listening, an... | |
| Is a separate phono pre really necessary? Is the transformer you are using made specifically for this cartridge? If so, then you may receive little benefit from the additon of a phono state, which in fact will create redundancy with the stage already in the rogue. Make sure you have th... | |
| Has the cost of HiFi gotten a bit too much? ghdprentice, right on. Economics and economic policy are difficult to understand thoroughly, and sometimes even appear counter-intuitive. And virtually every "simple" cause and effect is wrong. Suffice it to say that even the "pro's" like yours... | |
| Advice needed on MC cartridges Until recently I might have agreed with the conventional wisdom. I have used an Accuphase AC2 MC cartridge into a Counterpoint SA-2 Headamp into an ARC SP-6 preamp for years, because it sounded about as good as you can get. But recently in my se... | |
| CD transports; do they really matter It depends. I use an old sub--$100 Pioneer universal player with the first version of Pioneers outstanding transport mechanism, playing through a Bel Canto DAC, and it has a solid bass which outperforms any Sony mechanis... | |
| The Best Preamp is no Preamp? There is no substitute for listening. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Depends on your equipment and the ease of controlling volume, plus whatever moderating effect (or exacerbating effect) you preamp adds. They will add something. I have a secon... | |
| Decisive moments your your audio journey Easy. Dad's living room system 1952. Large JBL corner horn ... two 15" woofers and horn mids and highs. Driven by 25wpc tube Newcomb Amp w/Preamp. Rek-O-Cut studio TT with Fairchild arm and cartridge. First ever audiophile discs (Cook's "Soun... | |
| How many systems do you have? Three. Main in living room. Secondary in dining room/den (sounds as good but slightly different than main.) Tertiary in bedroom. All handle CD/SACD, first two phono as well. All have tuners. First system has RtR Dolbyized tape; bedroom has N... |