jasonbourne52
Responses from jasonbourne52
| Klipsch CF4's. Worth keeping or let me go!? Cosmetically 5 or 6! Give them to Goodwill. | |
| I am considering a luxman 3600 tube amp as my first adventure into tube amplifiers? A better choice would be a recent Prima Luna with 4 6550's per channel giving 100 watts. I'd pass on the Luxman! | |
| Analyzing DACs @steakster : congratulations! You are some sleuth! Yes, I am "roberjerman" and I have 4319 posts using that moniker. I suggest you read some of them! I changed my alias here on Agon because I couldn’t log-on when I got a new phone. I did buy a pai... | |
| Where to spend my money... Regarding amps - get a First Watt F4 and drive it with the LS-16. That will give you 50wpc@ 4ohms of Class A power! For jazz and classical that's enough power. BTW I have an F4 that I can drive with my ARC SP6! | |
| Where to spend my money... I'd go for the VPI Prime and add a Dynavector arm with a Dynavector lomc cartridge into an SUT (Denon, Entre, FR ...). Does the LS-16 have a phono stage? I'd consider something like a Herron or Counterpoint tube phono stage. | |
| The Impossible Has Happened Both are beyond affordability for the average middle class American! As regards sounding alike, nothing new about that. Audio electronics have been transparent to the source for several decades - contrary to what the manufacturers want you to bel... | |
| Ozzy is done @dekay : just as bad! My aunt Rose had it and suffered for some years as she became increasingly incapacitated. A bad way to go! | |
| Show off! DSOTM on CD because it is popular and well-known! | |
| Looking for a low priced preamp (used) I'm using the Robert Grodinsky Research RGR-4 as my main preamp. List price $650. I bought mine used on eBay for $200. Sonically competitive with any of today's expensive - and overpriced! - preamps. Mr. Grodinsky was a talented engineer whose mai... | |
| Analyzing DACs @mastering92 : why not level the same charge at the scribes that write for Stereophile, TAS, HiFi+ ...? All those glossy ad pages ... | |
| Analyzing DACs @mastering92 : so you imply that Amir is being bribed by unscrupulous audio manufacturers? And that's why Benchmark is highly rated? I'd like to have Amir respond to this! | |
| Analyzing DACs This was a common way for sales men at audio stores to sell speakers! They made sure that speaker A was just a wee bit louder than speaker B. The customer always preferred A! | |
| Analyzing DACs As an example in an A/B listening test of two preamps, amps, CD players ... the component that has an output level 0.2db higher will always sound "better" - more exciting, more lively, more engaging! All due to a simple level difference! Yet most ... | |
| Analyzing DACs Lot of hate here for Amir and ASR! Measurements do matter! More so than "golden ears" listening because human hearing is easily fooled! Trying to have a discussion here with subjectivists is like Galileo confronting the Inquisition! | |
| Ozzy is done Alzheimer's - the same thing that hit Ronald Reagan! An awful way to go! Losing your mind piece-by-piece! |