irish_tim
Responses from irish_tim
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? "She asked me why the singers name was Alice, I said listen baby you really wouldn't understand" ~ AC | |
| Please give me advice about an ARC VT 200 amp Thank you | |
| Strange buzzing from turntable I have a Stanton cart. I fixed the buzz problem by connecting a 18 awg wire from the turntable chassis to the phono preamp. Thanks everyone. | |
| my first hight end sound system , please don’t ignore A great start indeed. You may want to do some research on the TDK RFI filters, some say that they have a negative effect on the sound of audio systems. Good luck. | |
| Best Speakers with a DNA-1? I used that amp with Vandersteen 3A Sigs and a CJ preamp. It was magical. | |
| Eric Clapton reveals this week of his declining health "I heard Eric Clapton play and decided to buy a flute." ~ Ian Anderson | |
| Opinions requested I used that same amp with a Sonic Frontiers hybrid preamp and I thought it sounded pretty good. I upgraded to Bel Canto Ref 500 monoblocks and a CJ classic preamp. The Adcom/Sonic Frontiers sounded like a cheap a.m. radio by comparison. I also ... | |
| Strange buzzing from turntable I tried shielded interconnects, the buzz remains. | |
| Strange buzzing from turntable The interconnect running from the turntable is hard-wired and I assume shielded. None of my other interconnects are shielded. If the buzzing is caused by an unshielded interconnect would it be correct to presume that the culprit is the pair of i... | |
| What 3 Albums of 2/3 Genres (PopRock, Jazz, Classical) Would You Recommend? Jazz: Grant Green - Idle Moments, Grantstand, GreenstreetHank Mobley - Soul StationArt Blakey - MoaninIke Quebec - Heavy SoulStanley Turrentine - SugarJimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack | |
| Preamp for Bel Canto Ref1000 MKII monos I own the Bel Canto Ref 500M's - excellent amps. I've used 5 preamps with those amps including a Bel Canto pre1. The best by far, and the one that I'm going to keep for a long time, is the Conrad Johnson Classic SE. The sound is sublime. I lis... | |
| Vandersteen I've been listening to mostly hard rock and the blues through my 3A Sigs for the last 5 years. In no way are these speakers deficient while playing that music. You received some good insight in the last 4 posts. | |
| Advice for Speakers to mate with McCormack DNA .5 I have the Vandy 3's and had the .5 Mccormack but I felt that it was it was a little under powered. I listen to 75% hard rock and heavy metal and these speakers do not inadequately reproduce that music in any way. The sound of jazz is also outsta... | |
| List of musicians changed career with better success... Skunk Baxter - a cool guitar player with a very interesting change of career. He's an expert in missile defense technology; works as a consultant and chairs a congressional advisory board. | |
| Best speakers for Pink Floyd? Some great comments here. I think the best Floyd speakers are the crappy ones I used in college to scare the hell out of my guests when I played "Several small species" from the Ummagumma album after bar time on Saturday nights. |