immatthewj
Responses from immatthewj
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? People ask "How loud will it play"? They are like the people who check the speedo on your car to decide if it goes fast. @jeffseight going on 30 years ago I bought an entry level tube amp & some other entry level stuff, and a friend I work... | |
| What selections do you play when showing off your system to others? I’ve always been more of a 2 channel stereo fan myself but I can definitely see myself moving over to Home Theatre sometime in the future. A large TV without high quality sound is far less immersive. @cd318 it was back in the good old days of V... | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? I once told a neighbor I spent $1,200.00 on speakers (peanuts for most audiophiles) and he was shocked @deadhead1000 I can relate. | |
| Do You Tell Others How Much You Have Invested in Your System? Occasionally it would come up and I always tried to be vague. People thought I was crazy. And by the standards here (on this site), I really haven't spent that much. | |
| Well mastered Compact Disks I think the MFSL red-book of Eric Clapton/Slowhand and sounds quite good. Another one I did NOT choose simply because it is a reissue of a Moldy But Goody Blast From The Past--I chose it because the guitar work seems to float in the air and Clap... | |
| What selections do you play when showing off your system to others? I used to play Sinaed O’ Connor doing a pretty much acoustic cover of Nirvana’s All Apologies for people. I personally found it to be realistically intimate and close up and revealing and for that reason it mesmerized me. It didn’t seem to have th... | |
| Fix my buzz @millercarbon does the leg of the panel that you have your system’s breaker(s) on make any difference? For example, if you had a heavy draw, such as a window AC unit on one leg, would it help matters to put your system’s breaker(s) on the other le... | |
| Well mastered Compact Disks On those MFSL SACDs I alluded to: I note that your OP was referring to red-book, but that’s what my CD player was when I first tried them. The red-book layer sounded so good I bought a SA10 to see what I might be missing that was on SACD. | |
| What selections do you play when showing off your system to others? Sometimes it's even worse when someone has a reputedly worse system (acc to reviewers etc) that sounds better than yours! @cd318 that would have bummed me out. This guys ears are way better than mine, but speakers aside, I have wayyyy more $ ... | |
| New Dennis Had amps @tinear123 , if you go on Ebay, using "Dennis Had for search engine might get you there and you could 'message user.' I believe his Ebay name is "Radioman" but I am not positive. | |
| Well mastered Compact Disks I have a Japanese digital pressing of Holly Cole/It Happened One Night that has a sense of presence and immediacy that does it pretty good. | |
| Well mastered Compact Disks I also have 4 digital pressings (two of them are SACDs) of Patricia Barber/Cafe Blue, and the three I have listened to (including the red book) sound fantastic. MFSL’s old red-books of Elton John/Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Moody Blues/On The T... | |
| Audio Research - should I replace the valves? @cey , well, it took Jim a lot longer to get a batch of 12 together than it did Uncle Kevin, and once Jim took payment he would email me ever so often to let me know what stage he was in in the process of burning them in & testing. Which is ... | |
| Well mastered Compact Disks I think most of the MFSL SACDs I have bought are really pretty good. A few monthes ago I bought (I think it is Analogue Productions) Cowboy Junkies/Trinity Sessions SACD and it just about blows me away. | |
| Whats the weirdest concert you ever attended? I am not sure which concert would meet the criteria. Maybe Boston in 1979 because I am pretty sure that the stuff we were smoking was not just cannabis? Santana in 1981 because I pretty much passed out & cannot remember it? The Grateful De... |