hoganpc
Responses from hoganpc
| Digital is far better than vinyl Digital vs vinyl, chocolate vs vanilla. Whem I dad a decent tt/cartridge,that being a heavily modified Rega 3 with a Sumiko MMT tonearm, SotaTone Cones and Bluepoint cartridge, it was lovely BUT the PITA of record cleaning, VTA adjustment et al b... | |
| What's the heaviest speaker you've ever owned? What's the tallest? ESS AMT 6, around 175 lbs each. | |
| CDs And Green Markers. Please Don’t Laugh. Green marker along the CD's edge, cleaning with Armour All and other "tweaks" surfaced during the late '80s and early '90s. None of them made a wit of difference. | |
| Not manufactured any more. The mighty ESS AMT3; dual 10" woofers. 6" midrange and a Heil Air Motion Transformer. Back in 1975 I drove then with a Crown IC150 and DC300A pre/power fed by a Dual 701 tuentable and Stanton 681EEE cartridge. They had a fantastic dynamic range an... | |
| Tube Preamps that work well with SS amps? An Audible Illusions 3A worked very well with my Adcom 555 and Meitner STR-101. | |
| Old Amps that can still Kick Butt Accupahse P300. H-K Citation 16, GAS Ampzilla, Meitner MT101, | |
| At This Time Can We Recreate Full Range Live Music In The Home? I will add an emphatic "no". Having played First Tuba in a symphonic band for five years, no system I've heard can reproduce the power and emotion of the live orchestral experience. Jazz and intimate vocals, perhaps. | |
| Samsung flat screen TV’s My 50" LG LED is into it's 7th year with no issues and is used 4-7 hours per day. The LG Blu-Ray is 8 years old with no porblems. | |
| If your were to assemble a vintage system ? A Sherwood S8900A receiver, an Elac 770H Miracord turntable with an ADC XLM cartridge, a pair of Wharfdale Rosedale speakers. I owned them all at one time but not in the same system. | |
| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? "Chicago" at my college in 1969. Off key horns and flat, dull vocals. Terrible. | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? I don't have a Class D system so I would not dismiss them out of hand. I left the high end 25 years ago, Meitner, Audible Illusions 3A etc.because none of it sounded close to the Symphonic band I played in for five years.Now, I listen to music, no... | |
| Purifi Class D: Junk? Since you went to great lengths in your other thread to dismiss ALL Class D amps as junk, why do you keep kicking yourself in the nuts by continually testing these devices? | |
| Honest Amp Reviews: Impossible? I sold high end audio fo many years part-time, including Metaxas, Meitner, Mission, B+K, Musical Fidelity, Adcom, and many others. Although none of these were in the rarified atmosphere with Krell, Boulder, Audio Research etc., my observations wi... | |
| Opening Record Store My son-in-law is half owner of a record store/bar/recording studio in downtown San Francisco. Fotrunately it is not his primary income generator but they are making money. As a sole source of income, forget it. | |
| What do/did you do for a living? Taught high school and elementary school for 25 years. In between was a National Sales Training Mgr for a large multi-national and a GM/Branch Manager for four different companies. |