jasonbourne71
Responses from jasonbourne71
| if you had this system, what would you do to make it sound the best you can Speakers make the biggest bang-for-the-buck! I will recommend a pair of the latest Quad ESL's. Your electronics gear is fine. The stock power cords are fine. The interconnects are fine. Others here will disagree with my views about cables/speaker ... | |
| Turntable prices. Is my mind going? There is a nice TechDAS Air Force One TT here on Audiogon. $74K marked down from $169K. Now that's what I call a High End bargain! | |
| Turntable prices. Is my mind going? There are at present living in the USA about a thousand billionaires. The High End business caters to that social class. | |
| Getting into vinyl for the first time An excellent low-price phono stage is the Schiit Mani 2 for $160. Michael Fremer gave it a very positive review, praising its versatility in handling both MM and MC cartridges. | |
| Is there any fan of Mettalica here? Death Magnetic was the focus of a NY Times article about the Loudness Wars in present day pop/rock music. A dynamic range of 3 db! I had the CD and found it sounded awful. Of course most death/black metal/thrash over the past few decades sounds eq... | |
| Is there any fan of Mettalica here? I started paying attention to Metallica after reading the NY Village Voice review of MOP back in 1984. It was several years before I found the Elektra LP at my local Goodwill for $3. I already had the CD and did a comparison. I noticed an irritat... | |
| Component contributions to “sound stage” @livingwellinco : "The soundstage is unreal." Really, man! | |
| Component contributions to “sound stage” @michaellent +1! You hit the nail on the head! Soundstage is in the source! Pop/Rock recordings made by multi-tracking in a studio are nothing like a well-miked symphony orchestra where the recording engineer attempts to capture the spaciousness a... | |
| Moon 110LP V2 replacement Power Supply. Show us some close up pictures of the back where the plug fits. Also a picture of the plug end on the cable from the power supply. | |
| A listening test of two power amps All amps of low distortion, low output impedance and flat response will sound indistinguishable operated below clipping. Decades ago Peter Walker of Quad did a test using RTR tape copies of classical master tapes between two Quad amps - a transist... | |
| Anti-Skat on the EAT F-Note Tonearm Anti-skate applies an OUTWARD force to counter the inward skating force of pivoted arms. It varies with position and groove modulation. All anti-skate mechanisms are just bandaids. My FR 29 and FR 54 arms have no anti-skate and sound fine! | |
| TAS. The Absolute Sound? At least Stereophile has John Atkinson's measurements while TAS is just "my golden ears" tell me it is so. I called out Michael Fremer on Facebook for touting a $6K power cord. | |
| McIntosh MC275 vs Dynaco ST70 @viridian : You sir are correct! I said 6GH8 because I couldn't pull the correct 7199 out of memory. Either will work on that input/driver board, with some re-wiring for the different pin-outs. | |
| McIntosh MC275 vs Dynaco ST70 More fun to be had modding the input/driver board on the ST70! I have one like that with upgraded caps and three dual triodes in place of the two 6GH8's. | |
| Excellent interview with Mark Levinson I'd like to have a C - Wave module that a DAC can plug into! At an affordable price of course! |