ivan_nosnibor
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| Remember the year and first vynil you ever bought? Sgt. Pepper's in the summer of '67, which actually my 4-year-older brother bought for himself when I was 7. Whenever he was listening to it I knew it to be a recording I wanted to get into - but, he wouldn't let his little-kid brother in on his li... | |
| Are some of us losing our minds over upgrades?? I ought to clarify my post above. I myself buy with the intent to hold onto my gear, but acknowledge that others may consider resale value ahead of that. So when I say: 'investment', what I really mean and should've said above is the "investment i... | |
| Are some of us losing our minds over upgrades?? The Sony 5400ES is well recognized by modders as being a mod-friendly design. No problem with that. But, my own 2 cents is that value-oriented, or bang-for-the-buck, modding makes good enough sense to me and certainly has its place. Thing is, the ... | |
| Jean-Luc Ponty I'm a big Ponty fan. Cosmic Messenger is one of my faves. Also: Enigmatic Ocean, Mystical Adventures and A Taste For Passion. The Rite of Srings (with Al Di Meola and Stanley Clarke) is good too. But, you're right, those are all actually well-engi... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Come to think of it, Alan says that flat-panel TV's are likely the single noisiest appliance found in the home, nowadays. But, no wonder if maybe introductory vinyl- or digital-based systems are not turning on quite as many people as they used to.... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? At least one technical explanation has occurred to me as to why the number 'true' audiophiles has recently declined - despite the fact that most gear quality continues to improve. Over the last 5 years I'd begun investigating the whole topic of po... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? Mapman: :) My parents had a Gerrard console that was built-in to a living room cabinet. Not the greatest fidelity, by any stretch, but it was STEREO - something rather rare among anyone I knew in the early 60's. I was turning 5 at the time and I s... | |
| Why Don't More People Love Audio? I'd venture to guess that (due to the whole 'cost-vs-complexity' thing) we're almost 'forced' to keep it a secret. I mean people tend to get different results with different systems anyway. Heck, even experienced audiophiles can often end up disag... | |
| Where does your user name come from? My last name "Robinson" spelled backwards is "Nosnibor"...which sounded vaguely Russian to me. First name is John, and John, in Russian, is "Ivan". | |
| New tv? For my money, nothing beats a Plasma...still. Last Christmas we snapped up a 60" LG on sale for $800. It retailed for $1400 and usually sold at $900 in stores and online. It was one of LG's cheaper 60" Plasmas. The upper-end picture response resol... | |
| What Product Did You Overspend On? Technically this would qualify as an overspend since I paid a lot more than retail. It was Dec, 1990 and I had been looking for a pair of 3-way towers that I knew I could live with for at least the next decade and hopefully much longer for $2000 o... | |
| How much does your system retail for? About $12.5k right now and even that has been largely spread out over the last 23 years, so it hasn't hurt me too bad really. May add another $1-1.5k before all is said and done. The weird part is that the 2.0-channel rig of just the components th... | |
| Efficiency/Setup: VMPS 626R vs Klipsch KG4 The 626R's in my opinion are indeed pretty special. The Denon may just not be up to the task of driving them as you might like (which would not shock me, I believe). You may be in a position to add a 2-ch amp to the Denon that is better suited. If... | |
| Do amps have a sweet spot? In most any practical sense, yes, it may be normal, especially for lower-priced gear, to have that portion of its volume range that seems to open up a bit better...although exactly which portion that may be could possibly be different in different... | |
| Best overall Stravinski - Rites of Spring... I don't partake of the vinyl any more, but my own hands-down favorite of it so far is Zubin Mehta's (CBS Masterworks) recorded in '77. It's a bit atypical in that it's the most monumentally dramatic and at times nightmarish version I've heard yet.... |