jhills
Responses from jhills
| Morrow Audio re-design announcement: No more Ag coated Cu; Increased numbers of runs. Not one single industry, aside from elite members of the audiophile clan, use, or would use $10,000.00 pr Meter cables. Not the military, not performers on stage, not the recording industry; in fact just about everything is going wireless or heade... | |
| Recommendations for CD Player/DAC Combo If you can find, the Onkyo C-700R, CD player at under $2,000.00 is one of the best you'll find at anywhere near your price goal....Jim | |
| Listening Height Adjustment -- Is This Why Two People Don't Hear the Same? In general, line source speakers, as well as most stats and ribbons are considerably less affected by seating height (head height) than point source speakers.In my system, seating height seems to make no difference and the sweet spot is very broad... | |
| Is there actually a difference? Back in the early 80s, a audio enthusiast friend and myself, each had a 100W HK SS power amp and had Audible Illusions pre-amps. My speakers, at the time was the Vandy 2c and I think his was the Pioneer HPM100s. In short - our audio dealer loaned ... | |
| MFSL worth it? In my collection of LPs, from the 80s, I have a dozen or so MFSL LPs, everything from orchestral classics to Neil Diamond's "Hot August Night" to Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon". Since I bought them for their good sound and not for their futu... | |
| Which Nakamichi to choose? @bstbomber I agree regarding the Nak. ZX-9. Truly a wonderful machine.I bought a ZX-9 new, back in the 80s and loved everything about it. It made perfect recordings and play back of all of my favorite LPs and gave many years of flawless service.Af... | |
| Budget/value SS power amp recommendation +++ for the ADCOMsStill running a GFA-5500 as my back up. It never lets me down and (with a long warm up) it always sounds good.Also a big + for the B&K....Jim | |
| Listening to equipment at home before you buy +++ for making connections with John at Audio Connection. I have never dealt with him, as I’m quite some distance from the NE. but he has a stellar reputation as a great source for help with anything to do with Vandyies.A while back, I had a chanc... | |
| Listening to equipment at home before you buy @ieales One usually has some idea of what kind of system would work for them in their space and on their budget; what kind of music they listen to; how loud they like to play their music, etc. Beyond that - It's not rocket science - just a few ba... | |
| I need one for every room...and two for the garage! WOW! Gotta get me one of those bad boys - I’d have me my own mini Straight Line Accelerator - maybe open a little black hole or something.On the other hand, If I actually had a cool 80K setting around, I could pick up a couple of new Harley CVOs. ... | |
| Listening to equipment at home before you buy Back in the late 70s, through the 80s and early 90s, I was very lucky to have a great audio dealer, some 90 miles from where I lived. I both spent many long night listening recessions in his shop and brought equipment back to my home for audition.... | |
| My experience after lost of 20k$ Call me old fashioned, but after 35 years in audio, a collection of more than 300 LPs (many DD Masters) nearly as many CDs and a collection of decent gear - I have 0 desire to change gears, dump a bunch of bucks and jump on to the digital stream ... | |
| Best tube dampers that you have used After 15 years of faithful service from my Audible Illusions pre, I decided it was past time to change out the original tubes. Each Amperex 6DJ8 tube had a heavy band of some type of dark charcoal putty (approx 3/8" wide x 1/8" thick) around the m... | |
| BUYERS, What Issues have you had with Sellers and Listings that Prevent you from Buying? Although it seems, considering PayPal’s hold pay policies and a number of shysters out there abusing those policies to cheat legit. sellers, that being a seller on A-Gon or EBay can be a little risky. Still I have to agree with jssmith - some of t... | |
| If cost was no factor, what system would you build as your main audio system? @secretguy I am with you on the Maggie 30.7s. I now have the little 1.7s, that I am very happy with. When finances allow, I am planning an upgrade to the 3.7i, but the 30.7s along with an adequate listening room and some nice gear to run them, is ... |