jimmyblues1959
Responses from jimmyblues1959
| What percentage of digital vs. analog? 90% digital 80% of which is streaming and 10% compact disc. Last 10% is vinyl. 50% of vinyl listening is classical. | |
| New DAC with streamer I've found that my Amazon Fire tablet works well as a streamer when it's used with a good stand alone dac like my Schiit Modius. And on sale the Fire HD10 plus was only a bit over $100. | |
| Entry CD player question? Owned a Rotel RCD855 when it came out back in the early 1990's and found it to be a durable component. It also sounded surprisingly good at the time and the coaxial output allowed me to try a few different outboard dac's, including the Meridian 20... | |
| Finally arrived !! I don’t know what’s more impressive. Your system or the room it’s in. Glad that you’re enjoying this great hobby! 👍 | |
| Nice vintage $2k Turntable, cartridge, and phono stage A SYSTEMDEK IIX is a wooden plinth turntable that can be readily upgraded with any number of tonearms and phono cartridges. The initial purchase price of a stock IIX in nice condition should be no more than $300 to $400, which leaves plenty of mo... | |
| Electronics for Harbeths -- $5-10K One of the nicest amplifier pairings I can remember with my Harbeth HL3PES was some earlier Naim Audio gear. I used a Naim NAC72/Hicap/NAP135x2 and a Naim CDi compact disc player. The sound was quite good back in the day (late 1990's). | |
| LIST ALL YHE SPEAKERS YOU HAVE OWNED THEN TILL NOW! Hmmm lemme think about this. Okeee.. Infinity 1001A Qysonic Tad II FMI 80 Sequerra Metronome 7 Sequerra Metronome 11 Rogers LS3/5A 15 ohm Rogers LS3/5A 11 ohm Harbeth HLP3ES with matching passive subwoofers KEF Reference Series Mode... | |
| Rumors of CD Demise Exagerated? New Hegel I stream most of my music out of convenience. For the most part the medium sounds very nice with hi resolution material. I still have enough CDs to justify owning a good CD player, so I use the Naim CDi that I inherited from my late Dad. It's a ... | |
| Antique Sound Labs ASL offered great sounding tube audio gear at extremely competitive prices. A number of times their gear won praise from Hi End audio magazines like The Absolute Sound and Stereophile. I still have my ASL MG Head DT headphone amplifier, purchased ... | |
| Wondering if anyone can identify the speaker in this screen grab + 2 for Avalon Ascents. Is that Robert Trollinger facing the camera? I believe that Robert is the CEO of Avalon Audio. | |
| After a long, long sleep: ML-335 +2 for using a variac. They work and are inexpensive in relation to the price of this amplifier. Not a bad idea to get it serviced at some point though. | |
| Gary Wright has passed away RIP Gary... Dream Weaver was one of my favorite songs growing up. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿 | |
| Very good AES presentation on inter connects and ground loops. I have an AES input on my Schiit Modius AKM4493 dac. I’ve been tempted to purchase a transport with an AES output to use with the Modius, such as the Shandling ET3. As for using computers for streaming music, I have been using Amazon Fire tablets ... | |
| Dennis Had FIRE 300 B tube SET I see Quicksilver Audio mentioned here. I stopped by their Website yesterday and it seems that Mike is now only manufacturing two lower powered pairs of monoblock amplifiers (The KT mono and Mid mono) and an integrated amplifier. He still has a ... | |
| What new gear have you just bought? A DNA Starlett headphone amplifier from Donald North Audio. I received my Starlett in late July 2023 after an 18 month wait to have it custom built. Great headphone amplifier for dynamic headphones; especially the high impedance Sennheiser HD6XO... |