jasonbourne71
Responses from jasonbourne71
| What's in your CDP tonight? the minority report Disc 2 of How the West Was Won by Led Zeppelin. Great recording from the 1973 tour taken from the LA Forum and Long Beach CA shows. | |
| I am looking to upgrade - looking for advice Speakers are the most flawed devices. Yet offer the biggest improvement when changed. None of them sound exactly like real instruments and voices! Not even the $200K Wilson Chronosonics. With speakers it is often what you can tolerate over time. ... | |
| Garrard 301 motor and rumble Ah, the joys of idler/rim drive! Proponents claim a more forceful sound but with a higher noise floor! So a tradeoff there! | |
| I am looking to upgrade - looking for advice You could get a new DAC like a Topping D30 and use the Yamaha CD player as a transport. The Project TT is an entry-level product. Even the Pioneer PLX 1000 ($699) is significantly better! Cartridge choice is quite important here, along with the ph... | |
| I am looking to upgrade - looking for advice I would improve your signal sources first before changing components. The Rotel/Parasound gear is competent and capable of revealing sound quality! Look for improvements in your analog and digital gear. At the receiving end the biggest improvement... | |
| Why aren't there more Blu Ray/DVD transports? I use a Sony BDP - S301 for playing CD's after my Marantz CD67 expired from old age. I paid $10 + $11 shipping from an eBay auction! I was the only bidder! Why spend big bucks for an Oppo when a quality player like the S301 is at least as good son... | |
| Is There Just One Single Album That Does It For You, Completely? Just One. Captain Beefheart's Mirror Man! Back in the Days of Yore I put this on the GE console while my family was having Thanksgiving dinner! It fit the mood well at low volume! An undisputed classic from the Captain! | |
| Zen Stream/Zen DAC v2 a Surprisingly Good Combo Nice to hear that a sub-$1K streamer/DAC is so satisfying! This belies the assertations of the moneyphiles that only gear costing multi-thousands is capable of doing justice to the music embedded in those ones and zeroes! | |
| What news in 2023 struck you? The passing of John Strohbeen who kept Lincoln Walsh's design of a coherent speaker alive through the decades. | |
| Integrated with jacks for 2 sets of speakers? There are speaker selector boxes available on eBay. I have one made by Adcom that can switch three pairs of speakers. Sonically transparent and passive. Does not degrade sound quality. | |
| Has anyboyd used this amp, your thoughts on it @jond : Since it has one output tube per channel it will of course stay entirely in Class A operation. Class AB requires a pair of tubes/transistors driven by a phase-splitter circuit. | |
| Has anyboyd used this amp, your thoughts on it Such low-power tube amps are better suited for headphones than speakers. | |
| Has anyboyd used this amp, your thoughts on it The Glow One is a single-end tube amp using one 6BQ5/EL84 per channel at 3.5 watts output. Input/driver tube looks like a 12AT7. I have a similar custom-made amp like it using a 6BG6 pentode for about 7 watts and one 12AT7 driving both output tube... | |
| Is my amp good enough? I would keep using the NAD pre and power amp with the new speakers. They are both high quality circuit designs and transparent to the source. Spending lots more will only buy you audio jewelry - not significantly better sound! Upgrading your speak... | |
| What was the first power cable that you noticed a difference in the sound? @tennisdoc56 +1! At last a reality-based response! |