jasonbourne71
Responses from jasonbourne71
| How many times can u visit a hifi store before it annoys the store if u plan on a purchase I remember back in 1977 going to Lyric HIFi in Manhattan to buy a Dynavector 20B cartridge. Mike Kaye owned the store then. After sizing me up as someone not likely to spend thousands he made me wait in the vestibule while he went to fetch the car... | |
| Which end is which? Unless the Laws of Physics have changed you can bet the life of your firstborn that you will hear no difference. | |
| Fluance RT85N Reference Turntable - budget, or not ? When I wanted to add a new turntable to my collection of a dozen I bought the Pioneer PLX1000 for $699. Excellent quality equal to the twice-as-expensive Technics 1200 - which I already have. I mounted a Denon 103R on it. So that is my recommendat... | |
| George Kaye George Kaye was the founder and designer of New York Audio Labs (NYAL). I have one of his hybrid tube/transistor amps: the Moscode 150 (75 wpc). 6CG7 front end, Mosfet outputs. NYAL also made some OTL tube amps based on Julius Futterman's H3aa cir... | |
| What are your go to LP's for evaluating new gear or new tubes? Weather Report's I Sing the Body Electric. | |
| JBL 4349 at low listening levels. Get a pair of Quad ESL's - 57's, 63's or some of the newer Chinese ones. They all excell at low-to-moderate SPL's. I have two pairs of 57's. I prefer them over my JBL 166's and 4312's, though both are better for loud listening when I want to rock ... | |
| Who has kids that are in a band or have been? Good music and a good video! | |
| Vintage JBL J2080s from the 1990s... Another "sleeper" JBL are the 640's. I bought a pair in mint condition from my local Goodwill for $48. I tried them with the 30wpc JVC RS33 receiver. The combination sounded excellent with plenty of dynamic range playing Pink Floyd's DSOTM CD. | |
| Unipivot tone arms @dynacohum : I have a NIB Mayware unipivot awaiting installation, also a NIB Shure V15 mkV that would match well with the Mayware compliance-wise. | |
| Unipivot tone arms @dynacohum : The Keith Monks unipivot arm with its four mercury baths is certainly unique! I wish I had kept mine! I sold it because I had problems with the liquid silicone contaminating the mercury contacts, causing channels to drop out. I bough... | |
| The DAC Scam - Almost everyone believes the hype @kennymacc : So you love gazing at your lovely expensive wristwatch as the seconds tick by? | |
| Unipivot tone arms I had a Keith Monks Audio Lab (KMAL) and a JH Formula 4 arm from Australia. Both unipivots. Now I have a Mayware from England - the original that JH copied. They all sound excellent! | |
| The DAC Scam - Almost everyone believes the hype A DAC is basically a sound card. Expensive DAC's are trophies for the gullible rich to impress their clueless buddies! | |
| Anyone familiar with Mullard 12AX7 10M tube ? No! | |
| Definitive Technology Mythos STS crapped out... worth repairing? Buy a pair of sub plate amps from Parts Connection in Canada before Supreme Leader's 25% tariffs kick in. |