immatthewj
Responses from immatthewj
| New expensive power cord for amp and no change in sound? fusebox, 30ga thin wiring through house to outlet, and a 4gs cord will change water to wine? Nope. Who uses that? | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? After 50 years in this hobby I’ve settled on the following hierarchy: Amplifier Source Speakers Cables Room acoustics... Blasphemy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
| Recommendations for really well-recorded music for high-end audio system demo Back in the '90s when I was being exposed to new stuff via a public radio station (91.3 WYEP) I bought Lloyd Cole's Love Story for Like Lovers Do (which is still my favorite track on that). (I probably enjoys vocals more than all else.) Anyway, ... | |
| McIntosh tube upgrade - worthwhile? Deja Vu? https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/jj-preamp-tubes-repeated-problems | |
| What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ? I have not bought an LP since 1982, and I don't remember what they cost back then, but I know that I wasn't going out of my way to buy quality pressings. However, within the last few years, I did pay a seller $100 for a JVC XRCD red book of Linda... | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? Another +1 (or more) to @atmasphere ! | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? I was just browsing through the amps and preamps forums, and came across this from @atmasphere If your preamp or source is lacking, it will not matter how good your amps and speakers are- they cannot make up for signal loss or coloration! The p... | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? @immatthewj I was being sarcastic. Ahhhh . . . I should have known. | |
| Watts! How many do we need? @immatthewj I think that Sanders covered this question fully in his paper? @bigtwin , I am honestly not familiar with Sanders or the paper you referenced, but is it accessible on this site? What would I need to use (besides "Sanders") as a... | |
| Tube preamp topologies and music @allenf1963 , here is the thread I alluded to a few posts ago. This thread turned into an argument about what the definition of the term "musical" is, but near the end of page 5 I made the comment that a SET amp might not be "musical" to a metal... | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? Spend $30000 on speakers and $70000 on the rest. no budget for cables? @grislybutter (do you miss being called "Brown Bear"?), I suppose one could interpret that as 30k for the speakers (wow, I wish I could do that!) and then "the rest" wo... | |
| Tube preamp topologies and music @ghdprentice I would have thought your comment on a SET amp being a poor choice for for a head banger about as safe and uncontroversial as possible… hmm, I guess everything can be challenged. thinking about it, I am pretty sure I was using t... | |
| Which has a greater influence on sound quality, the amp or the preamp? I am pretty sure this identical question has been asked in the past, and every time I have read it, the answers are (like almost all audio topics here) split with no clear consensus, and a lot of "both" answers. I am going with "both," but the im... | |
| Do you belong more to souce first or to speakers first school of thought ? I’ve done the totals on the MSRPs of what I am actually listening to and I am still under 30k. I’d love to go either way with 30k and 70k. Either way. (I don’t know what it would come to if I added up the stuff that is in a dormant state. There is... | |
| Watts! How many do we need? @bigtwin , is an unltralinear watt identical to a triode watt? That's a serious question, I am not intending to be sarcastic. |