jallan
Responses from jallan
| Top 10 Live Albums New York Stories (Blue Note), exhibiting Danny Gatton’s ability to play, well, anything. Beautiful jazz guitar, nicely recorded. Bobby Watson and Roy Hargrove, amongst others too. | |
| How does 10+ year old technology compare to modern: Musical Fidelity M1 DAC George, what competes with a Yggdrasil that isn’t double or triple the cost? I am trying to decide whether I want to buy another Yggdrasil GS. | |
| ATC SCM40A speakers Any heard with this speaker, I will get my comment right eventually! | |
| ATC SCM40A speakers I add that my amplification setup sounds better than any that I have heard, not better than any available! I bet the Gryphon 333 Diablo would sound amazing if one wanted only solid state amplification (or its little brother), and I bet that an Aud... | |
| ATC SCM40A speakers I run my SCM40V2’s with a Cary SLP05 with ultimate upgrade and Raytheon VT231’s and CBS Hytron 5692’s (latter in input buffer). I have a hard disagree with use of the passive or active versions with a tube preamp. I replaced my otherwise excellent... | |
| Looking for High Quality Streamer Only Options (NO DAC)? Used Aurender N100H. They are $900-1200. The Listening Room typically have several for sale, and one can buy confidently from them. | |
| Downsizing from tower to bookshelf I will put in a plug for the ATC SCM19’s. No sibilance. Tremendous soundstage. I run SCM7’s in my bedroom on top of a dresser with rubber sandwich isolators and couldn’t be happier. All of the ATC Entry series are easy to drive- I use the original... | |
| System assessment... Congratulations on retirement! I’m in the same situation as you, and have been upgrading after many years of stasis in my system. I addressed high end hardness with replacing speakers and my preamp. Building upon excellent advice here, I have lear... | |
| Do you have a perfect digital marriage? My Aurender N100H feeding a Yggdrasil sounds pretty darn good, but I lust after the N200 which should be my next purchase! If I win the lottery, I will get what George Prentice has! | |
| Acoustic Panel Help +1 for @larryi ‘s comment. I have a wall-hung plasma tv between my speakers (which are placed about 3 feet in front of the wall) and my imaging is precise with a great sense of 3-D instrument location. The tv does not seem to affect the imaging (t... | |
| Advice for headphone amp and dac My son has had good luck with a Schiit Vali (his is not microphonic; I wonder if the previously mentioned example had a microphonic tube in it) and Modi Multibit combo. It drove my Sennheiser HD800S’s with drive and authority with a really exubera... | |
| DAC shopping - Trying to sift through the Hype. Can I trust the reviews these days ?? The Border Patrol R2R Dacs are on sale, for around $1473 to $1975 based on the number of inputs. The GSII Schiit Yggdrasil OG is $1699. Both of these sound great and are made in the USA. | |
| Help Select an True Bookshelf Speaker I have sealed ATC SCM7’s in my bedroom, replacing ported Infinity’s that chugged through their port. They sound really great! | |
| Bose buys McIntosh This seems like a lifestyle corporate purchase for an iconic lifestyle brand. McIntosh certainly makes quality equipment, but most is far from state of the art. The use of the auto formers really adds a distinctive sound character and the use of t... | |
| Are You Old Enough to Remember Those Jaw-Dropping Manufacturer Demos? In November 1979 I was in San Diego attending the Geological Society of America meeting as a grad student, and a dealer demonstrated the Hill Plasmatronics for me. I still have the one page color brochure. What a nice guy- the owner of the shop di... |