immatthewj
Responses from immatthewj
| The joys of mid-fi Yes, @ghdprentice , but I have a little bit of an idea of what gear your system is put together with, and I can only think that it must reproduce quite a bit of sonic detail. How do you feel about listening to subpar source material (be it CDs o... | |
| The joys of mid-fi Where does mid-fi end and hi-fi begin? What one man or woman sees as hi-fi is only mid-fi (at best) to another. | |
| Marantz SA10 sacd player @immatthewj yikes! Didn’t know SA10 was $7k must have confused it with the 30N at $3K. There you go I saved $ by getting a McIntosh 😉, never thought that would happen. @socalml528 , no sweat on that. And that was the premise of the OP’s thread... | |
| Marantz SA10 sacd player I have the solution; spend more! I bought the McIntosh MCD85 SACD player. @socalml528 , can you expound on what you mean by that? I just looked on MD and the McIntosh MCD85 looks like it is going for 5k, and the Maranzt SA 10 is going for ... | |
| Subwoofer placement - back or front of room? . . . I don't think dangling the sub from the ceiling would be a good idea. If it was not a pretty light weight sub, I don't know what part of the sub you could attach to that wouldn't damage the sub when it was hanging. Alos, I would think the ... | |
| Subwoofer placement - back or front of room? Here is a link to a question I asked on this site about subwoofer placement. I believe the very first reply was from @ghdprentice and he also provided a link to a video on the subject. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/subwoofer-between-s... | |
| Subwoofer placement - back or front of room? A while back ago @james633 sent me a link to an article about setting up monitors, and this is what the article had to say about setting up subs: "At low frequencies, it is crucial that the most fundamental room modes are equally excited. Using ... | |
| Marantz SA10 sacd player My guest it’s a refurbished unit. Sounds like they didn't do much refurbishing. I need to quit putting off checking the hours on mine. | |
| Changing a speaker color I've never painted speakers, but back in '02 I was working in a composite shop and I brought in some wooden window shutters, sanded off the old finish, shot them with two coats of USAirways blue and then a coat of clear and they are still holding ... | |
| Which has a greater effect on music,int.amp or CD? . . . thinking back, I remember, back in the '90s, trying out a Mesa Baron dual monoblock-in-one chassis- tube amp. I remember perceiving that as a heavily colored and warm sounding amp, and I also remember during the course of that audition (I ha... | |
| Which has a greater effect on music,int.amp or CD? I know that you did say "excluding speakers," but if it was a "rock & roll system" I wanted to put together I think what I would do is try out some of the speakers that the rockers consider to be "rock & roll speakers" (I am not really a r... | |
| Beautiful Colored Tube Preamp ($10k budget) to Pair w/ Very Accurate Monitors (PSI A25M) As far as the Cary SLP05, I don’t consider mine to be all that warm. It could be the tubes I am running in the balanced input sockets, or the cables I am using, or another component in my system, but I felt replacing my old Cary SLP90 with the SLP... | |
| Best 12AU7? I find it bright, but in a very nice, warm and fat way! That seems like a contradiction in terms? | |
| Does it have to sound good for you to like it? We take turns meeting at each member’s home, allowing each member to host and present/share their music, food, wine/drinks and good company. Most of the members have various consumer-level listening stations: AV receivers, Bluetooth soundbars and... | |
| A stupid question(s) about power cords So this morning I swapped in the stock cord and the problem is solved. @audphile1 , to clarify, so I am not misunderstanding, are you saying that the power cord that came with the unit is preferable to your ears than the Preffair? |