jeff_jones
Responses from jeff_jones
| mouse pads...cheap isolation tweak??????? Ditto as tt motor isolation base. | |
| breaking in audio components I had a new Arcam Alpha 10 integrated amp that would totally disgust the deaf for the first 12 hours or so, with other products the changes have been either less dramatic or non-existent. | |
| Replacement Fuse's - What are my options ???? Albertporter - I think what you are really seeing, sometimes, is showmanship (looks count and dem gadgets look pretty cool) and otherwise neccessary behavior to keep a business viable. If you don't play nice with other vendors, & if you disdai... | |
| What Happened to Neil Young's New Release ??? Boa2 - "I'm also not sure why being a millionaire would inherently diminish the weight of his opinion." No disagreement here, was rambling about the courage thing, no financial risk. The average working person who could offend his boss or customer... | |
| What Happened to Neil Young's New Release ??? R_burke - Thanks for the link! Others can hear what they hear and filter through the mandatory niceties and reviwerspeak (or not)as they deem appropriate. An honest question that comes to mind, is how could anybody charecterize a multimillionaire ... | |
| What Happened to Neil Young's New Release ??? National Public Radio in the U.S. talked about the album and played a few snippits. They said that he threw it together in two weeks time, and it sounds like it. Lots of complaints about the U.S., lots of his old guitar tricks, nothing new or deep... | |
| What Happened to Neil Young's New Release ??? Once again, I wish Ronnie Van Zant was still with us. | |
| Tubes in Hi-End Preamps "All active and passive devices add distortions; we simply pick the ones that are most consonant with our inner paradigm of what music sounds like." ... "most of my engineering buddies believe that it's possible to design solid state circuits that... | |
| Tubes in Hi-End Preamps I really like Kjweisners take on things. Another tidbit, fwiw, is that the solid state route typically is more prone to higher frequency harmonic distortion than tubes. A popular school of thought is that our ears and brains find this type of dist... | |
| Replacement Fuse's - What are my options ???? Garebear - I think there is a bigger chance that the voodoo fuses will give less reliable protection, than that they will do the protection thing as well and make any difference that a human being could detect in a well designed blind test. If you... | |
| Help Me Explain Power Cables to my Guitar Friends Tubes108 - If you ask the question and the guitar guys are on the ball, they will probably note (pun intended) that high magnitude second order harmonics are similar to reverb, and probably similar to room reflections in indoor listening environme... | |
| Attention Vandersteen 5A owners/ amp matches Richfield_hunter - If you don't mind, what tubes did you end up liking? | |
| Help Me Explain Power Cables to my Guitar Friends Markphd wrote - I think you are right, but I think where audiophiles can fall off the turnip truck is to equate difficulty in interpreting measurable differences (tubes vs solid state)to lack of measureable difference ($1000 pc versus WalMart). In... | |
| Help Me Explain Power Cables to my Guitar Friends Best way I can think of would be to open up your component and hook a scope up to the DC buss immediatly downstream of it's internal power supply, and then compare noise level and nominal voltage on the buss while playing a constant frequency test... | |
| Benefit of DAC? Thinking of Bel Canto 2 I like the approach of buying a DAC that reclocks the bitstream (Hagerman tech. or musical fidelity tri-vista 21 for example)and then using anything that suits your budget or fancy to spin the disks. |